First rate hafting job! Love the thinner handle with curves like that also never seen the router use for shaping the eye like that. Works very well! Ok what really blows my mind tho is how in the world does the single piece second wedge pass thru the first also single piece first wedge? On camera it doesn't appear to be tamping down the first wedge!? Please whats going on there?
@@acsmakeandrepair3252 Thanks for getting back! Yes of course how did I not see or think of that? Idk? Again havnt seen that before, but then Ive only been rehafting for about 1 year. Staight away it seems that way would be a tighter fit than the usual 2 separate wedges applied on the sides of the 1st wedge, because the main wedge is already seated for depth and your 2nd wedge spreads it to fill any corner gaps..Unigue and simpler then fussing 3 wedges simultaneously it would seem! Thanks so much for sharing! Beauty Day to you!
@@pwaterdu on most of the axe heads I have done the dimensions of the eye or hole in the head are the same roughly top and bottom and you only need the main larger wedge.
G'day Arthur, I've got a couple of old axe heads, and I bought some handles for them from my local true value hardware. Both of them split and broke on the first use, any recommendations for how I should have fitted them? They came with lead wedges from memory. I've got plenty of old bearers from renovating my house, I'd like to use some of that because it's well seasoned old Qld hardwood. Any recommendations on wood selection?
I use spotted Gum mostly, and I try to orient the end grain so it runs parallel with, and at the very maximum 45° to the head that's my way of thinking and I don't claim to be an expert but I have done quite a lot of handling of tools over the years with good success , I give a bit more info in the other video I did on axe handles, the link is in the description of this video, try to use clear wood without nail holes or cracks or blood veins as these weaken any handle, I hope you do well, regards Arthur p.s I have a play list on tool handle making also.
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First rate hafting job! Love the thinner handle with curves like that also never seen the router use for shaping the eye like that. Works very well! Ok what really blows my mind tho is how in the world does the single piece second wedge pass thru the first also single piece first wedge? On camera it doesn't appear to be tamping down the first wedge!? Please whats going on there?
I actually split the first wedge with a screwdriver that's how it worked, and the first wedge is driven home hard so won't move anywhere.
@@acsmakeandrepair3252 Thanks for getting back! Yes of course how did I not see or think of that? Idk? Again havnt seen that before, but then Ive only been rehafting for about 1 year. Staight away it seems that way would be a tighter fit than the usual 2 separate wedges applied on the sides of the 1st wedge, because the main wedge is already seated for depth and your 2nd wedge spreads it to fill any corner gaps..Unigue and simpler then fussing 3 wedges simultaneously it would seem! Thanks so much for sharing! Beauty Day to you!
@@pwaterdu on most of the axe heads I have done the dimensions of the eye or hole in the head are the same roughly top and bottom and you only need the main larger wedge.
G'day Arthur, I've got a couple of old axe heads, and I bought some handles for them from my local true value hardware. Both of them split and broke on the first use, any recommendations for how I should have fitted them? They came with lead wedges from memory. I've got plenty of old bearers from renovating my house, I'd like to use some of that because it's well seasoned old Qld hardwood. Any recommendations on wood selection?
I use spotted Gum mostly, and I try to orient the end grain so it runs parallel with, and at the very maximum 45° to the head that's my way of thinking and I don't claim to be an expert but I have done quite a lot of handling of tools over the years with good success , I give a bit more info in the other video I did on axe handles, the link is in the description of this video, try to use clear wood without nail holes or cracks or blood veins as these weaken any handle, I hope you do well, regards Arthur p.s I have a play list on tool handle making also.
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