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I need a new axe handle

Started by sawbob011, May 14, 2010, 09:37:00 PM

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sawbob011

the handle on my favorite hatchet broke the other day and I have been trying to make a new one but have discovered only one thing. I suck at makeing axe handles. Im homping there is someone who could shape one out for me if I sent them the axe head and cracked handle. Its not your run of the mill hardwear store axe and I can no longer find a site that carrys the axe let alone spare handles so custom making one is the only way to go. any help is appreatiated.
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Radar67

Here is a good post on how to make an axe handle.

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,29193.msg419872.html#msg419872

Practice makes perfect, keep on trying, you'll get it!  :)
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WDH

Twist Marcel's (Isawlogs) arm.  If I remember, he is a master handle maker.
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Lud

I'd dropped a junk hickory for a neighbor out of her backyard and was salvaging what I could out of a crappy half rotten log.  First Hickory I've sawed and not an experience I'm in a rush to do again any time soon.

Anyway, I cut it to 2" x2"  for some handle stock,  band saw to shape, round over on a shaper,  and hit it with the drawknife, sanders,  and scrapers.  I really am getting to like what hand scrapers can do.

Couple of pics.  The one sledge handle is close to 4'. I like the leverage and balance it gives and the knob on the end.  Note the overstrike protection built into it.  Hickory makes a good handle!







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Weekend_Sawyer

 Very nice handles. I would not want to be holding the spike while you drive it in with that 4' sledge!

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Lud

I thought it was the wives that were supposed to hold the spike ?? ;D
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Wish Ida known that when I was married   ;D
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SwampDonkey

I've made a few axe handles from hard maple. I just used the pattern off a handle I was replacing and whittled them out with an axe and smooth it up with a spoke shave. It just takes practice. Make it a little tight if the wood is not well dried and set it aside to dry further, then carve some more to fit. Make a split end for wedge. Good to go. ;D Our traditional handle wood around here was Ostrya virginiana.
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Dave Shepard

I think Lie-Nielsen uses a lot of hophornbeam too.
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Tom

"What you talkin' 'bout", Swamp Donkey.   They don't have any ostrich wood in Virginia.

barbender

There has to be a story behind all of those scientific names :) I think you're talking about what we call Ironwood up here.
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Dave Shepard

Ostrya virginiana is American Hophornbeam.
Carpinus caroliniana is hornbeam, ironwood, blue beech.
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SwampDonkey

In New Brunswick, farmers call it hop-hornbeam and foresters call it ironwood. Thus, the use of latin. :D
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