Ben, The sweet chestnut that you are working with is such a nice wood for splitting. Straight grain and even rot resistant. I have studied how the European chestnut has some resistance to chestnut blight fungus. Across the pond in the US, the American chestnut was devastated by chestnut blight. Attempts are being made to backcross Chinese chestnut with surviving American chestnut and hypovirulence to reestablish chestnut trees. The return of American chestnut within this generation is unlikely. But one day we hope to appreciate American chestnut again.
As usual a very informative and clearly explained video. Looking forward to seeing the series progress. All I need to do now is finish building my shave horse and think about building a pole lathe!
Very easy on the ear Ben. You have a wonderful easy manner. Looking forward to the next video. I've got some big hornbeam tree boles I was thinking of using for carving stumps but concerned it would blunt the axe being so damn hard. What do you think?
Just found you channel. It looks great! However, being a from convict stock in Australia I now know why the poor buggers almost died when the first lot of convicts came out here. Even green Eucalyptus trees are really hard with cockeyed grain and wouldve been near impossible to do this with. I believe they started to use wattle for huts, but Im not sure if the chair makers wouldve been real thrilled with the wood they found LOL. Again, thanks for putting this information up in your series of videos :-)
An awesome video thank-you Ben. Can you perhaps just answer a question (or perhaps another video) -- what should you be looking for when buying a carpenter's axe? I notice that some of them seem to have "offset" eyes for the handle so they sit very flush, but your axe seems to have concave cheeks on the blade?
You make the axe work look easy! On an unrelated note, has anyone told you that you look like Billy Kitchen from season 2 of Peaky Blinders? I'm not sure of the name of the actor.
I love how you emphasize safety and ergonomics in your videos.
I've used axes plenty of times, but I think you've explained how to work with it the best way I've ever seen. thank you.
Well done. I appreciate you taking the time to systematically cover green woodworking. Great reference.
Man, excellent pedagogical skills. Much appreciated.
Ben,
The sweet chestnut that you are working with is such a nice wood for splitting. Straight grain and even rot resistant. I have studied how the European chestnut has some resistance to chestnut blight fungus.
Across the pond in the US, the American chestnut was devastated by chestnut blight. Attempts are being made to backcross Chinese chestnut with surviving American chestnut and hypovirulence to reestablish chestnut trees.
The return of American chestnut within this generation is unlikely. But one day we hope to appreciate American chestnut again.
You are an excellent teacher
Well thanks a lot for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video. Many thanks cheers Ben
I'm loving this series. I'm sure i'll be watching it many times when i start doing some woodworking of my own soon. Thanks!
Love this guy. Glad I came across your videos. Very helpful info.
As usual a very informative and clearly explained video. Looking forward to seeing the series progress. All I need to do now is finish building my shave horse and think about building a pole lathe!
a lot of common sense safety tips well presented. thanks!
Very much everything is told in detail, thank you very much !!!!!
MORE! MORE! MORE! great videos, Ben! I will be using this info for my next axe project
Thoroughly enjoyable and really informative to watch, thanks for sharing Ben you’ve got my subscription 👌♠️🙏
Very easy on the ear Ben. You have a wonderful easy manner. Looking forward to the next video. I've got some big hornbeam tree boles I was thinking of using for carving stumps but concerned it would blunt the axe being so damn hard. What do you think?
great info, subscribed!
Hey awesome series. I learned so much. Very informative. Thank you and you got a new subscriber. Look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Just found you channel. It looks great! However, being a from convict stock in Australia I now know why the poor buggers almost died when the first lot of convicts came out here. Even green Eucalyptus trees are really hard with cockeyed grain and wouldve been near impossible to do this with. I believe they started to use wattle for huts, but Im not sure if the chair makers wouldve been real thrilled with the wood they found LOL. Again, thanks for putting this information up in your series of videos :-)
You could use all leftover to make charcoal and do some metalworking too :)
An awesome video thank-you Ben. Can you perhaps just answer a question (or perhaps another video) -- what should you be looking for when buying a carpenter's axe? I notice that some of them seem to have "offset" eyes for the handle so they sit very flush, but your axe seems to have concave cheeks on the blade?
You make the axe work look easy! On an unrelated note, has anyone told you that you look like Billy Kitchen from season 2 of Peaky Blinders? I'm not sure of the name of the actor.
I'm Russian, but I understand you!
Huh, I never heard a sheath called a mask! Interesting in today's world!