I ruined my family hammer when I was younger and snapped the head off. I immediately hid it. It sat accusingly in my toolbox for 20 years until I decided to get a hickory handle, but the one that delivered was practically a baseball bat. So I was thinking of getting a spokeshave - and that's what I was looking into when TH-cam eventually served up your channel. The few days off, and this video might be the kick in the arse I need to get it started.
I'm surprised how many more people watch your shorts than these long videos. I hope you don't stop because of that. I LOVE watching you go through processes like these :')
Love the idea of converting/restoring all of your hand tools with local Irish ash. That could be a recurring segment on your channel. You could also make a really nice 3 tier wooden tool box to house all of your tools when you finish converting them.
Thank you for making videos! Several trees were recently cut down by mistake on my property, mostly black walnut and a couple Ashe trees. You’ve inspired me to pick up my grandfathers wood working tools and give the logs new life! I wish more people appreciated the value of the skills you are teaching. Hope all is well!
I love watching you work as it reminds me of watching my dad do this sort of thing when I was a kid. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!
Beautiful old school wisdom and craft, delivered by a skilled and youthful professional….in an Irish accent to boot!! A fascinating watch….well done sir 😁🤝
I have my Dad's 16 oz claw hammer. The octagon handle is very comfortable in my hand. Try it for your next replacement, it can always be made round. Really enjoy your videos.
I love the look of the semi charred ash axe handle that you put your grandfathers axe head onto and I think that would look lovely on a hand plane, go for it lad!
Ash is also my go to wood for making shafts for say axes hammers and similar. I live in Finland, and as you say, its hard, but flexible enough to take the shock quite nicely. :)
That reminds me, I need to go and buy some more linseed oil. I use boiled linseed oil for garden tool handles and raw linseed oil for my other tool handles. I enjoy using it. It’s satisfying to apply it to a project and watch the grain pop. I’m a new sub and you’re inspiring me to get back on the tools. My vice needs to be remounted as it rotted out of the table I had it mounted to. It was outside in the weather.
You missed one important step that you did. I am sure it is because it is just automatic. You didn’t draw attention to the direction of the grain. Great video. I love to see you using a Froe. Most people have never even heard of one let alone use one.
The cold weather has caused an awful lot of condensation as it warmed up again. In my shed there was a good bit of damp, even with the dehumidifier on. Lovely work on that handle.
Thanks to you i’m going to try to get into tool restoration💀💀 i did one with my friend. We didn’t replace the handle but it was a broad head axe, i sanded the handle and put a new stain on it and my friend used the wire brush to get the dried dirt and rust off.
I'm fortunate to live in an area of the world with native species of American Yew, Ash and Hickory. I have made ash and yew longbows though I still prefer hickory for most handles of tools in a pinch I have used ash for axe and hatchet handles.
You should consider getting a de-humidifier or throw some of what we have in the states around called "Damp Rid" and it'll suck out the moisture near your wood pile.
I’d like to do some of my handles very soon I have quite a few hammers in need ash is a good handle I can’t wait because all my handles are oval and I prefer a hex handle so much more comfortable for me take care and have a merry christmas
I’ve had more condensation / moisture than I’ve ever seen just this last week in the workshop…all my carbon tools / surfaces have the odd bit of rust now. Lots to sort out so you’re not alone. I put it to the extremes of temperatures 🥴
I’m a blacksmith so new handles and replacements are always necessary but thing is where I’m at we have neither ash nor hickory so I resorted to the most common material Oak and surprisingly it’s worked extremely well and I am rough on hammers
Hey I'm into the vintage tools, planes, axes & woodworking too,, also in cork if yeh ever want to chat about them/hangout 😀👍 also I have a few spare double bit axe heads from america for sale which would look lovely on ash handles !
I have an old antique hammer I got at a place called the construction junction up in Pittsburgh I think her I don’t know I live in Pennsylvania and I didn’t think the handle was safe so I took it off because I thought I could make my own handle and it turns out I’ve done it before but turns out I figured out Pine isn’t really good for that I’ve never been in the woodworking until I watched your videos and went to carpentry class and I actually Have a number five in the number four on my list for Christmas and a tradition we do a zoom my family we open on Christmas Eve then we go to family on Christmas day and some guy I work at this museum where I’m an apprentice apprentice for a blacksmith one time the guy didn’t show up so I had to be the blacksmith thanks for inspiring me and woodworking keep doing it I love it see you in the lifestream later
Being a blacksmith is cool as hell, but don't discount the importance of grammar and writing. It's important to be able to communicate your thoughts and ideas with others.
I was told by a New England ship builder ash is the preferred wood for handles because on a cold day ash will warm to your hand , hickory will stay cold
Not sure on the setup, but if you have wood drying in your garage loft then that will be increasing the moisture in the garage. There might be lots of air circulation however, so I'll happily be told I'm wrong.
No disrespect, but how does a lad of your young age have these fantastic old school skills?... A lot of the skills shown in your clips take decades to learn!. 🙂 Nuff said.
Where did you learn all of your woodworking? Especially the use and creation of traditional tools! I'm wondering if you know of any intensives in Ireland or abroad that teach traditional carpentry, tool making, and/or timber framing. Thanks!
Ha, ha! Up to the time of my viewing your videos, to me, a "fro" was a hairdo, as in Afro. Who knew? Also, there once was a fellow, name of Roy Underhill, who wrote a book, Using Wedge and Edge, all about woodworking. He could be seen on public television here in the (United) States. Perhaps you could follow in his footsteps as regards topics and ideas for future programs. Just a thought.
I realize this video is two months old, but it's not the only one in which I see Eoin's vice isn't holding material very well. In this one, he's HOLDING the piece with his left hand while sawing two inches away. Yeesh! In another video, he's contouring an axe handle with a spoke shave and it keeps flopping around in the vice. Instead of chopping off fine hickory handles, police your vice, she needs some caring, boy. [EDIT: Even in this video, when he gets to contouring the handle, it's floppin' aroun'! You're going to get hurt, Eoin, I couldn't take it if you did.]
I think the wedge usually goes in the other way - I don’t mean with the thick end first (ha), I mean turned 90º so it presses against the ends of the hammer head, not the sides. I don’t really think it makes a difference - it would if it was a wooden mallet, obviously. Perhaps that’s where that comes from and it’s only a tradition, but I’d be interested if there are other reasons - or any particular reason why you did it this way. I wouldn’t have replaced the hickory handle, but I see where you’re coming from: I’m planning to replace the plastic handle of a Japanese saw, complete with the blade changing mechanism, even though the existing handle works fine. I’ll be using ash for that, too - not critical for a saw handle, I just chose it because it matches a lot of other handles I have.
We do hammers to wedge out to the cheeks and hatchets and axes to push to the bit to keep from putting undo stress on the forge welds at the front of the eye.
Off topic of this video. But how would one go about drilling out a hole, lets say for a dowel, at an angle. As a mental picture, thinking like making a coat hanger out of 2x4 and dowels. Trying to figure out how to make a hole at a consistent angle
You’re definitely Irish! Sprinkle in a few freckles on your cheeks and some flaming red hair you could be the spokesman for all of Ireland 😊 Great video!
While I appreciate the job, I think there's a reason they use hickory. It's hard as hell! But I do have an ash tree in my yard... now I know what the wood looks like. Do you happen to have any elm for a project? I got a big tree that needs trimming.
@@EoinReardon I am signed up for his July workshop. So, I will meet and learn from Mr. Chickadee this year, God willing. I'm very excited for it, I admit.
Everytime i go into the shed i feel like I'm gonna make something. Usually end up with a mess and an injury. Grabbing nothing but a claw hammer and a phillips screwdriver and feeling like a carpenter. More like a carpet turd.
Personally, I find it wasteful to replace handles that don't need to be replaced. Replacing them with local wood when they break makes perfect sense though.
I was thinking this - why replace a perfectly good hickory handle if it's still perfectly good? I have actually replaced a few tool handles with ash, though they may have still been relatively serviceable, but usually because they were too short for my liking or too loose or beaten to feel safe while using them.
Feeling bad for the poor castaway excellent hickory handle who was serving well faithfully, now rejected and alone, and afraid on foreign soil who's only fault being not of local birth...terrible.
I ruined my family hammer when I was younger and snapped the head off. I immediately hid it. It sat accusingly in my toolbox for 20 years until I decided to get a hickory handle, but the one that delivered was practically a baseball bat. So I was thinking of getting a spokeshave - and that's what I was looking into when TH-cam eventually served up your channel. The few days off, and this video might be the kick in the arse I need to get it started.
Yes! That would be a wonderful end to the story
Do it man! Why haven’t you done it yet? You owe it to your family sir!
Better late than never, as they say
oi wheres the hammer?
any update on your hammer kind sir ?
I have no real interest in doing any of this , but I love watching you. It’s very calming.
This is absolutely fascinating.
Seeing the gradual progression thur the bark piece at 3:10 onwards is incredibly satisfying. Just layer by layer down
I'm surprised how many more people watch your shorts than these long videos. I hope you don't stop because of that. I LOVE watching you go through processes like these :')
Ppl got short attention spans
Same! I like longer vids
Love the idea of converting/restoring all of your hand tools with local Irish ash. That could be a recurring segment on your channel. You could also make a really nice 3 tier wooden tool box to house all of your tools when you finish converting them.
Thank you for making videos! Several trees were recently cut down by mistake on my property, mostly black walnut and a couple Ashe trees. You’ve inspired me to pick up my grandfathers wood working tools and give the logs new life! I wish more people appreciated the value of the skills you are teaching. Hope all is well!
I have to know how someone managed to cut down SEVERAL trees by mistake, I mean it can't exactly be a trip and fall sort of accident can it...
I love watching you work as it reminds me of watching my dad do this sort of thing when I was a kid. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!
Beautiful old school wisdom and craft, delivered by a skilled and youthful professional….in an Irish accent to boot!! A fascinating watch….well done sir 😁🤝
You're a old soul good man! Absolutely fascinating to watch your skill set create perfection!!
I have my Dad's 16 oz claw hammer. The octagon handle is very comfortable in my hand. Try it for your next replacement, it can always be made round. Really enjoy your videos.
I love the look of the semi charred ash axe handle that you put your grandfathers axe head onto and I think that would look lovely on a hand plane, go for it lad!
You never seize to amaze lad. You possessed impressive knowledge and skills. May you prosper in your future endeavours.
Ash is also my go to wood for making shafts for say axes hammers and similar.
I live in Finland, and as you say, its hard, but flexible enough to take the shock quite nicely. :)
MERRY CHRISTMAS from across the pond, sir. I hope yours is a cheery one, and your new year even better!
That reminds me, I need to go and buy some more linseed oil. I use boiled linseed oil for garden tool handles and raw linseed oil for my other tool handles.
I enjoy using it. It’s satisfying to apply it to a project and watch the grain pop.
I’m a new sub and you’re inspiring me to get back on the tools.
My vice needs to be remounted as it rotted out of the table I had it mounted to. It was outside in the weather.
Love this kind of material on TH-cam. Also your accent is the best
I’m from Australia and enjoy using spotted gum for handles it’s native to Australia and looks fantastic
You missed one important step that you did. I am sure it is because it is just automatic. You didn’t draw attention to the direction of the grain. Great video. I love to see you using a Froe. Most people have never even heard of one let alone use one.
It is so cool seeing the plane slowly change and take the wood into a new life layer by layer
happy christmas and all the best for 2023. from county down.
The cold weather has caused an awful lot of condensation as it warmed up again. In my shed there was a good bit of damp, even with the dehumidifier on. Lovely work on that handle.
As always ~ love the videos! Happy Christmas!
This is perfect timing. I just won an antique hewing axe head in an auction. I was debating on what type of wood to make a handle out of
Thank you for sharing, happy new year and all the best to you!
Thanks to you i’m going to try to get into tool restoration💀💀 i did one with my friend. We didn’t replace the handle but it was a broad head axe, i sanded the handle and put a new stain on it and my friend used the wire brush to get the dried dirt and rust off.
Great video. Merry Christmas 🫡
Ya do beautiful work! Keep it up!
I'm fortunate to live in an area of the world with native species of American Yew, Ash and Hickory. I have made ash and yew longbows though I still prefer hickory for most handles of tools in a pinch I have used ash for axe and hatchet handles.
You should consider getting a de-humidifier or throw some of what we have in the states around called "Damp Rid" and it'll suck out the moisture near your wood pile.
Thank you for all you share with us viewers.
Lucy wants to be the star of the show 😄
Eoin, You have a very movie star quality about you, love the videos keep it up!
Keep up the good work 👍 Your content is good 👍
I’d like to do some of my handles very soon I have quite a few hammers in need ash is a good handle I can’t wait because all my handles are oval and I prefer a hex handle so much more comfortable for me take care and have a merry christmas
I’ve had more condensation / moisture than I’ve ever seen just this last week in the workshop…all my carbon tools / surfaces have the odd bit of rust now. Lots to sort out so you’re not alone. I put it to the extremes of temperatures 🥴
Happy Christmas lad.
Hello sir, awesome work. Keep it up im really inspired by you
Nicely done.
I gave up sugar in my tea. Thanks for sharing you inspired me to do the same.
Fun video. tHanks for posting!
have a fantastic christmas eoin!
I’m a blacksmith so new handles and replacements are always necessary but thing is where I’m at we have neither ash nor hickory so I resorted to the most common material Oak and surprisingly it’s worked extremely well and I am rough on hammers
Edit I was curious to hear other opinion’s on this choice
@@RoookCastle if it works it works man 🤘
Merry Christmas!!
Really like your videos keep it up please
Nice work
Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄
merry christmas !!!!!!
I see the festool box in the background
Hey I'm into the vintage tools, planes, axes & woodworking too,, also in cork if yeh ever want to chat about them/hangout 😀👍 also I have a few spare double bit axe heads from america for sale which would look lovely on ash handles !
Merry Christmas 🎄
I have an old antique hammer I got at a place called the construction junction up in Pittsburgh I think her I don’t know I live in Pennsylvania and I didn’t think the handle was safe so I took it off because I thought I could make my own handle and it turns out I’ve done it before but turns out I figured out Pine isn’t really good for that I’ve never been in the woodworking until I watched your videos and went to carpentry class and I actually Have a number five in the number four on my list for Christmas and a tradition we do a zoom my family we open on Christmas Eve then we go to family on Christmas day and some guy I work at this museum where I’m an apprentice apprentice for a blacksmith one time the guy didn’t show up so I had to be the blacksmith thanks for inspiring me and woodworking keep doing it I love it see you in the lifestream later
Oh and I’m only 17
Bloody hell that was hard to read
Being a blacksmith is cool as hell, but don't discount the importance of grammar and writing. It's important to be able to communicate your thoughts and ideas with others.
Another great wood for engineers hammers is beech, also the wood of choice for file handles.
Your wife and children will have SO much to remember you by untill the end times.🙂
A dehumidifier will help your garage and tool's about the dampness.
WE DEMAND MORE LUCY!!!
I like hickory, but ash works just as well for my tools.
There were a couple of ash trees near my place and they got sick... now they look so sad !
I was told by a New England ship builder ash is the preferred wood for handles because on a cold day ash will warm to your hand , hickory will stay cold
MM77 Approved 👍🏼👍🏼
More of lucy please
Not sure on the setup, but if you have wood drying in your garage loft then that will be increasing the moisture in the garage. There might be lots of air circulation however, so I'll happily be told I'm wrong.
No disrespect, but how does a lad of your young age have these fantastic old school skills?... A lot of the skills shown in your clips take decades to learn!. 🙂 Nuff said.
Try using baking soda to ride your rust problem in your tool chest or Desecant packs
Where did you learn all of your woodworking? Especially the use and creation of traditional tools!
I'm wondering if you know of any intensives in Ireland or abroad that teach traditional carpentry, tool making, and/or timber framing.
Thanks!
Is your nail hammer made in the USA? love this content. Wishing you a merry and warm Christmas in this wonderful room
Cowboy grip on the saw. Index finger extended😉.
Ha, ha! Up to the time of my viewing your videos, to me, a "fro" was a hairdo, as in Afro.
Who knew?
Also, there once was a fellow, name of Roy Underhill, who wrote a book, Using Wedge and Edge, all about woodworking. He could be seen on public television here in the (United) States.
Perhaps you could follow in his footsteps as regards topics and ideas for future programs.
Just a thought.
I would like to see you use your lathe to make one of the plane handles
I realize this video is two months old, but it's not the only one in which I see Eoin's vice isn't holding material very well. In this one, he's HOLDING the piece with his left hand while sawing two inches away. Yeesh! In another video, he's contouring an axe handle with a spoke shave and it keeps flopping around in the vice. Instead of chopping off fine hickory handles, police your vice, she needs some caring, boy.
[EDIT: Even in this video, when he gets to contouring the handle, it's floppin' aroun'! You're going to get hurt, Eoin, I couldn't take it if you did.]
LOL.
And ye bai does full ASMR too.. Feck 'Bentleugh'
Dang sugar, when do you have time to make these videos? You're always working other jobs. Bless your heart, love watching you though. ❤
I think the wedge usually goes in the other way - I don’t mean with the thick end first (ha), I mean turned 90º so it presses against the ends of the hammer head, not the sides. I don’t really think it makes a difference - it would if it was a wooden mallet, obviously. Perhaps that’s where that comes from and it’s only a tradition, but I’d be interested if there are other reasons - or any particular reason why you did it this way.
I wouldn’t have replaced the hickory handle, but I see where you’re coming from: I’m planning to replace the plastic handle of a Japanese saw, complete with the blade changing mechanism, even though the existing handle works fine. I’ll be using ash for that, too - not critical for a saw handle, I just chose it because it matches a lot of other handles I have.
We do hammers to wedge out to the cheeks and hatchets and axes to push to the bit to keep from putting undo stress on the forge welds at the front of the eye.
Using a triangular piece of wood, making it square to then make it oval
so how many times did you have to reshoot that intro until you caught it properly haha
Eoin ive just discovered spotted gum equal to hickory as they say
My barn is very damp and all my saws get rusty as heck.
Any tips for stopping the rust? Adding wax or something?
Can you blue them, like handguns?
Lucy is such a good girl
Just thought of something... is Ireland a humid place? How do you dry wood in a humid environment?
Marry Christmas to all
More Lucy
Off topic of this video. But how would one go about drilling out a hole, lets say for a dowel, at an angle. As a mental picture, thinking like making a coat hanger out of 2x4 and dowels. Trying to figure out how to make a hole at a consistent angle
You’re definitely Irish! Sprinkle in a few freckles on your cheeks and some flaming red hair you could be the spokesman for all of Ireland 😊 Great video!
Where I am uk I use oak not the best but I have more oak then ash
16 min gang
While I appreciate the job, I think there's a reason they use hickory. It's hard as hell! But I do have an ash tree in my yard... now I know what the wood looks like. Do you happen to have any elm for a project? I got a big tree that needs trimming.
Ash is a very traditional tool handle wood in the uk and Ireland.
Now I understand why you don't use Hickory, sort of. DO you not like ordering in any wood, or is it just a matter of pride to source your own?
Can you deliver to Northern Ireland
Why are you often using sandpaper made for a sander machine? Isn't that more expensive?
Eion,
Merry Christmas! Quick question.
Have you ever watched Mr. Chickadee on TH-cam? I highly suggest checking him out if you haven't.
Mr. Chickadee only uses hand tools to build and he has timber-framed several cabins and workshops now.
Hi Ian. Thanks for the comment. He’s a huge inspiration of mine. Have a good one. Eoin
@@EoinReardon Awesome to hear! I hope he announces his 2023 workshops soon...I'm hoping to attend.
@@EoinReardon
I am signed up for his July workshop. So, I will meet and learn from Mr. Chickadee this year, God willing. I'm very excited for it, I admit.
Everytime i go into the shed i feel like I'm gonna make something. Usually end up with a mess and an injury. Grabbing nothing but a claw hammer and a phillips screwdriver and feeling like a carpenter. More like a carpet turd.
Wranglerstar won't be pleased
Dont replace your plane handles. Instead find old planes with missing or broken handles and restore them, complete with ash handles
Man what is the brand of your cap?
Hi I love the hammer would you sell it
what if you run a dehumidifier or something?
You'd have to run a dehumidifier on the entire island really... But yeah, it might be a good idea.
left handed?
Personally, I find it wasteful to replace handles that don't need to be replaced. Replacing them with local wood when they break makes perfect sense though.
I was thinking this - why replace a perfectly good hickory handle if it's still perfectly good?
I have actually replaced a few tool handles with ash, though they may have still been relatively serviceable, but usually because they were too short for my liking or too loose or beaten to feel safe while using them.
dont like that you replace a good handle
Feeling bad for the poor castaway excellent hickory handle who was serving well faithfully, now rejected and alone, and afraid on foreign soil who's only fault being not of local birth...terrible.
It’s a good crack