Cooper's Side Axe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- The Cooper's Side Axe or, simply, the Cooper's Axe is used for listing (tapering) staves and for removing excess material around the head, before the Cooper dresses the basle (beveled edge) with the Heading Knife.
00:00 Introduction
00:17 Tool Description
00:43 Benefit of the offset haft (handle)
01:00 Primary use and technique: listing (tapering)
01:00 Secondary use: shaping heads
01:37 Benefits of the Cooper's Axe over other Side Axes
01:58 Restoring and sharpening the edge
03:30 Question of the day
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Excellent..... Great detail and lots of informative practical and real knowledge. Thank you.
Thank you! Keep an eye out for an upcoming video where I respond to a viewer question.
You sure do know your onions! Love the channel!
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You’ve peaked my interest with the air topic! What I’m always worried about is preventing bugs in air dried lumber
Yes, that could be a concern. We don’t have the outdoor real estate to dry outdoors, so we’re drying in our barn’s loft. Regardless of the potential for insects or worms, kiln drying is out of the question. I also mention it in my Riving video.
@@TraditionalCooperage maybe they dried the wood with insecticide or repellents such a bane plants , wood ash, or copper oxide or sulphate , or just a smoke filled drying shed.
@@andrewsock1608I’ve not read anything to support that. That’s not to say I wasn’t done, but I’ve read everything on the topic I can find. Air-dried stave blanks are still used today. You’ve raised an interesting point. I have a relationship with a modern cooperage, I’ll reach out to them for their process.
@@TraditionalCooperage I assume they would have ample scraps to burn and maybe it was so normal and subtle that it was overlooked when making records or stories. A Smokey scrap fire in the shed may easily be overlooked as having no real purpose to a writer or just said to keep the flys away or aid drying. In medieval times they used some copper sourced additives in the fletching glue to deter bugs from eating the feathers and dried glue when the arrows were stored. I suppose that would be too expensive for barrels and potentially toxic for humans.
These are great axes, looks a lot like the modern hewing axe made by mueller.
I love me some cooperage.
You and me both. If you’re ever in south-central PA look me up at Dill’s Tavern in Dillsburg, PA.
So what bevel would make it a right handed blade? RIght hand side bevel? Thank you = interesting video.
Good question. There are actually two features that make it a right-handed Cooper’s Side Axe. First, as you questioned, the bevel is on the right side of the bit. As with a Hewing Axe, we’re trying to shear the wood on the left side, which is flat, or nearly so. Secondly, the heal of the bit (the end closest to the use) is canted to the left. This offset keeps the Cooper from potential grazing their knuckles on the stave and, omitted from my video, it makes it a more ergonomic angle to engage the stave, which is likely no more than 3 1/2” wide. Others may have this same question, so I plan to also answer your question in a future video.
@@TraditionalCooperage good answer. I look forward to seeing this visually in the future. I am a blacksmith and a stock knife is on my horizon. There is debate in the various communities on what makes it a right or left handed user. Some folks completely disagree on the basis of bevel alone, with reasoning behind each position. In this case, it appears simpler. I'll be making of these axes in the future myself to learn the process. Hewing axe to be more precise, but the idea is very similar.
@@LitoGeorgeNote the overall flat blade in the Cooper’s Side Axe. Feel free to hit me up, if you want specific dimensions from this original example.
Just make sure your main axe doesn't find out about your side axe 🪓