5 Simple Axe Upgrades
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#Proho #wranglerstar - Jak na to + styl
Can we take a moment to appreciate that he's using a vise, to hold a vise, to hold a clap.
You mean clamp?
@@roberthamilton9245 unless he did some naughty things with that second vise
Bleddih yanks. It’s a vice*. Also, clamp.
@@dr.2335 chill
@@pivotalpigeon2914 .... nahh....
well, ive replaced the head and the handle- and i have to agree it is a much better axe now
So you basically got a new axe
+lordmcted Jacked up the radiator cap, and put a new car under it ;-).
lordmcted haha just like Trigger's broom.
aay fools n horses :p
I cut mine 3 times and it's still short!
I like how at 0:56 there's a clamp holding a clamp holding a clamp!
And this, boys and girls, is how tools are made.
Best hair piece I've ever seen. The Science today is just life changing.
I just use a flame to carefully burn off the varnish. This also dries the wood so it will absorb more boiled linseed oil, which I rub in with steel wool. Note that when the varnish was applied, it will have penetrated deeper into any exposed pores, so there is an extra reservoir of varnish in these areas that will burn longer (like a candle) and deeper into the wood if you let it. On ring-porous woods like ash, these pores correspond with the growth rings, so if you rub back the wood before oiling it, you can achieve a nice contrast between the charred pores and the naturally coloured wood, as the Japanese practice of Yakisugi does with cypress.
So... where are the "5 Simple Upgrades" ?? Must have accidentally missed them ;o) I think the title should read : "How to un-varnish your axe".
Dutch Prepper I was waiting for that too. Darn rambling.
Dutch Prepper , unfortunately I have to agree with you on this one.
He totally blew chunks on this video.
More like 5 tools to strip the varnish
looked like he was selling tools...not upgrading his axe!
I laughed when he said that the handles got sprayed sorry but that’s really labour intensive they all get dipped in a tank so it can be done many at one time
I'm confused, the title says 5 upgrades but i only saw 1.
thedr00 15:40
I only have a few woodworking tools and a very simple, fiberglass-handled axe, but I still appreciate all of the tips and tricks on this channel. Thanks for doing what you do; I hope you can keep going for as long as you have the desire!
Cody, when I was in blacksmith/bladesmith school our instructors simply torched the handles to burn off the varnish. It worked in just a minute or less and the toasted handle actually had a nice raised grain finish that weathered in very well over time. Not sure what your opinion would be of having a handle blackened like these were but it worked very well and left a very usable handle. As a new student, with new tools I was not exactly in love with it at first but now it's my preferred method.
I just did an axe handle tonight, but I don't have a spoke shave. I improvised by taking about a foot of steel pallet banding and filing a chisel edge in the center of it. it worked really well as the flexible banding allows you to form it around the curves and peel a large area. only downer is it's really soft steel so I had to touch up the edge twice during the process.
Cody, these videos are your wheel house! As a long time subscriber, these are by far my favorite. Very enjoyable! Thank you for the time and effort you put into providing all of us with education and entertainment. It is truly appreciated.
The very best part of these videos is how obvious it is how much you love the entire process. You make us want to run right out to the garage and build a house with tools we've restored ourselves.
"Electron microscope" love this humor, just flies over some people's heads XD
i liked the stranuations myself
I caught that too Raid. He couldn't afford an electron microscope in the first place.
The only reason I jumped to the comments was the reference to the “electron microscope”. We use electron microscopes at work...this is NOT an electron microscope. This is a store bought student microscope, say from Target or Amazon.
I felt like the guy that sold it to him told him it was an electron microscope
I have seen pictures from an electron microscope....lolNOT the same
Love your videos! wish I lived the way you do. I'm 22 years old so I'm learning off of you already.
I like the way you produced this video. It had a very calming/soothing effect in addition to being informative. Happy that you all are home.
your videos are awesome. i have loved this channel for years. i am fixing to do just that, remove varnish from an axe handle. love the way you do things. when i first see the video and how long it is i go, o no (cause my time on the internet is so limited) but then when it starts the time goes by so fast. an awesome video as always. thanks for sharing (my go to guy for axes). its what brought me to this channel.
Welcome back; I hope you enjoyed your time in Texas.
Great video, I'm really looking forward to this series and learning some tips I have a Snow & Healy felling axe that is nice but I've long wanted to make it better and now your tips will help to do that!
A properly sharpened card scraper is sharpened to a 90 degree angle then has a burr rolled over on the edge then is pulled at a 45 degree angle to the wood. This gives you the very fine removal of material like the knife method you use with the ability to bend the scraper to remove material evenly on inside and outside curves, by far the best, quickest and easiest way to remove the varnish if you choose to do so. They also do not generally come factory sharpened from the manufacturer.
glad you all enjoyed Texas.
my wife and I had a great time meeting and talking to you all.
and America is taking about playing with Jack at the meet and greet.
Wow, great info here! Good video detailing axe edges and handles.
About a year ago i purchased the Husqvarna 26in multi pourpse axe and i am indeed very happy. It is the perfect size for me. (I am 13)
if only if only, haha. my dad has an old true temper double bit
lets hope! i have been going to all the yard sames i my area
🖒thumbs up bud. Make sure you don't chop something your not supposed to. But have fun 🗣👈
Thank you, continuing until the end. Got some thinning to do on my property and I'm looking to replace my cheap home depot axe that broke. Looking to things more efficient by axe and hand.
I agree. I have seen all of your videos and the video of you and Mrs W taking down that big tree is by far my favorite.
I love all your videos and watching your videos made me decide to restore an axe as a gift. Thank you, keep up the good work
I'm glad you had a great time in Texas. I lived there for over 20 yrs and I will always keep a place in my heart for the Lone Star state
Excellent tutorial and an eye-opener to me to see a knife used as a scraper like this. I really like the way the wood fibres are cleanly severed rather than roughed up. The knife itself is stunning - I'd not come across Deering before. Looks like the Woodchuck model perhaps. Bone scales?
Good to see the cruiser back in a video.
Great video Cody! Glad your travel was fun and you all made it home safe.
If you don't mind a darkened handle, use a propane torch. It takes a little practice, to not let the handle surface get charred spots.. But this will lift off the varnish/polyurethane, toughen up the handle's surface, and prep it to soak up BLO faster than it otherwise might.
EgaoKage ya but that can be pretty rough on your hands even if you’re careful
Thank you so much for these!!!!
I just bought a Husqvarna carpenters axe. These vids are a treat!
Great timing! I have a new small forest axe coming to me in the next week or so. Look forward to the upcoming videos.
I am so very glad that my fellow Texans made you feel right at home. I am so sorry that I didn't make it to see you but I am legally blind, so I needed someone to drive me... so if you could please, please, please give as much of an advanced notice as you can give or maybe a web site that we can go to that shows where you are going to be all year..( this will allow me to find someone willing to drive me there ). I know it would be a pain to do but I have wanted to meet you guys for over 5 years , it will happen someday... please remember to have a blessed day :)
Cody I know you have to do a variety of videos to keep the channel fresh and different, but it is great to see a video like this again on the channel. Keep them coming.
Awesome info, always a pleasure to watch/listen to your channel while i work my desk job, wishing i was doing something more hands on! My mother teaches art and always said 'stry-AY-shun'
Your video's have been so helpful. You've helped me turn my axe tinkering into a hobby.
Do you mean a Macro lens, not a electron microscope?
+A Muddy Duck it was a joke
+Wranglerstar sorry, I am quite new to this channel.
+Wranglerstar lol wait till he hears your take on the metric system
+A Muddy Duck Ha, I thought the same thing and was really docking this guy's credibility. I was relieved to see him say that it was a joke.
He was joking about the electron microscope
love the way you get the varnish off with the knife! although you dull you knife a bit. keep em coming!
I so enjoy your videos! I hope the grammar police will not cite me for the way in which I have phrased that, LOL. I really don’t care how anyone “cringes”. All kidding aside, I have watched many of your videos and I have been inspired by your passion and appreciation for detail. Also, I find your love for your family so refreshing. I am so happy for you Brother. My hope is that your awesome life continues for many years to come. To quote an old wise dude, “live long and prosper”.
I'm delighted and laughing that you posted this today. I just bought a new hatchet this morning and was thinking about the best way to get the varnish off. I think that the knife method will work nicely. Thanks!
Cody I actually have a method for removing varnish that works really well. It's super cheap and VERY effective. All you do is break off a piece of flat glass so that it has a curve in it, and the perpendicular edge is very nice to scrape off varnish and wood as well. I use it all the time to work on wood handles. It makes very nice curls and works much better than that card scraper.
+Chemistry, Films, and More; I saw an old movie where the principal characters were jawing in the foreground, a scraggly looking craftsman was in the back drawing a piece of broken wine bottle over a spoke or some handle he was shaping. real shavings came from the work. I was impressed!
+grodad Yeah it's not a joke! It really works and it's my go to method.
mine too. right on. :) (no sanding either)
so nice to see someone sharing what they love!! God bless!!
never have i ever heard of someone recommending getting a good lamp but it makes so much sense. to be able to see your work in full is so important i think we take it for granted and work with crummy light just because and not think about it.
Your videos get me thru stressful days at work.. Thank you so much!!
Mrs. W is awesome, nothing better than seeing a woman out in the woods doing woods things with a big ole smile on her face. Shes a keeper, Mr. W! lol
Great tips Cody. Thanks.
Very helpful thanks ,hope you and your family had a great trip.
Loved the close up on the blade edges.... really cool.
I don't mind your long videos, could watch axe stuff all day long. Love them, thanks.
Many thanks. Another truly superb and educational video. Keep up the good work.
Your videos are NOT too long. If you are familiar with the TED Talk program and the book Talk Like Ted, they have done a lot of research and found that the 18 minute range is ideal for a presentation of one subject. Thanks for doing what you do.
+Tim Flynn Thanks Tim
Growing up here & there, sometimes I lived far into the woods, & other times living in a city, Now that I am out of city limits, Once again returning to basic's & I realize the beauty & necessity of having a good axe & or several. I have never really sat down & considered the beauty of a good axe however, lately, I am appreciating them more so!
thanks for the video. love watching your movies👍. never stop making them❤
a heat gun or torch(if you're careful) lifts varnish right off
I enjoy your videos. Glad you are into axes. I like knives as well. Keep up the good work and God bless you.
wow. you have hit your stride with these videos. A joy to watch and a lovely meditation.
I did not know that Bahco made card scrapers - Thanks.
Good video as usual.
Pleasure to watch.
Try boiled linseed oil and turpentine.
Also I've used penotral for fiberglass ladders and shovel handles left out all winter in southern Oregon
Love the new music! Very much looking forward to hearing more in your videos Cody...
Really awesome video, loved the tip on using the vice and the clamp.
I believe you were correct when you said striation, the surface grooves left from sharpening. My question, under the electron microscope, were we seeing the striation or the lamination of the layers of metal? Actually, do axes get folded over like long blades? Any info you have would be appreciated. thanks!
~B
First ..Beautiful work to Josh on his cover song on the last video and I hope to hear more. Also.. Those of us who really want to learn enjoy and appreciate the long detailed videos so as long as you enjoy making them .. please keep them coming and thank you.
I just love ur tutorials on repair and retore tools.
Picked up my Karesuando Hatchet from Casstrom knives and what a quality product.
Lovely curly birch handle and arrived sharp enough to cut, although it did cost £150.
I've missed these types of videos. Welcome back sir.
Thanks Cody! Just received a few hatchets and an axe from my father in law.....going to restore them soon. Any suggestions of where I can find some decent hickory replacement handles?
Thank you for this, I learned a lot!
I've never enjoyed the feel of my main hammer. It has a slightly larger than desired handle but a great shape. It also has a varnish on it which I never liked because of the reasons you stated, mostly slippery. A few of your videos have given me great ideas for how to come at the handle to fit my own hand. Thanks, sir!
I got two axes I need to "fix" rather than using linseed oil I am going to boil some alder bark and use that nice orange dye that you get from it. I was just wondering your thoughts on it.
Cody a method that was shown to me years ago by a cabinet maker/furniture restorer is a piece of glass, he used that method for removing lacquer
Once the varnish has been removed, and the knife method is my favorite one, can I apply linseed oil to make it more beautiful? Or the oil itself would make it slippery? Thanks!!!
Always add BLO it protects the wood from rotting, moisture, and it helps tighten the head in the long run. BLO will normally soak up into the wood, of a little bit gets a little sappy than you can just plow through it or scrape it off
Hello! very good channel. I love your videos, and you learn a lot! I hope you can read this question. Depending on the hardness of the wood, what angle of the bevel do you recommend? For example, in my area we have very hard woods. What angle would be the ideal?
I like the forged in fire grading system, 1 is it comfortable to grip, 2 is it durable, and 3 is it sharp enough to kill?
Nice vid Cody. :) You can use pretty much anything with a sharp 90° angle as a scraper. I have used a hardened steel cleat from where I work (we have alot of them) It worked beautifully!. A peice of broken glass workes really well too! as long as you're confident holding glass. :)
Hey wranglerstar, if you ever get the chance you should try sharpening with a harbor freight 1x30 belt sander. This is what I use and I can get razor sharp polished edges in minutes. I have belts that start down at 80 and I work my way up the grits all the way into 1200 and 3000 then I finish with a leather belt that fits on the belt sander with some green jewelers rouge on it. I've sharpened large axes down to small pocket knifes. The best part is they don't cost all that much either.
+I have a video on this deweytastic
+Wranglerstar What's the name of the video?
+Wranglerstar I found the video I don't know if they make high grit belts and leather belt for that larger 4" sander but if you were to try it with them it is the best thing I've ever done for sharpening things. Sand on one side of the edge until a burr forms across the whole section of the blade then do the other side until a burr forms on the other side and just keep working your way up through the grits doing this. Then follow with the leather belt with compound to get the mirror polish. You can do this same method with stones and in my opinion gets the sharpest edges it is all about getting the burr.
I don't know if this has been requested, but I purchased a cold steel trail boss. I stripped the varnish and coated with BLO. But I would like your opinion of the axe through some personal use.
There is something very satisfying about finishing wood.
I use a card scraper... mine, however, has a proper burr on it and it strips the varnish off very quickly and controllably!
Cody when I joined our fire department we hung all our own axes and other tools. We scraped the wooden handles with broken window glass and NEVER used sandpaper. Everything then got a very well rubbed in coat of linseed oil. Rubbed in by hand until it was HOT. We also scraped our wood extension ladders every five years or so, including the 40" ladder. That took a week or more.( I have always felt the flaming the handle with a torch to burn off all the little fibers leaves the best finished handle to oil.)
I have been using the fine side of an old horseshoe rasp to take varnish off of my handles and I really like the finish it leaves.
Lads, I think the man is aware he doesn't have an electron microscope in the workshop hahaha A bit of hyperbole is lost on some.
That aside the bahco hatchets are actually not too bad. At least one I got about 5 years ago in Ireland is still in great shape after a decent ( hard but not worked to death) amount of use. I had to take of varnish but the grain was perfect and took boiled linseed oil nicely. I will say however I recently looked at one of the felling axe sized ones that look to be of the same line and i wasn't impressed on the face of it. So keep a look out before shelling out the cash I suppose.
i can only speak for myself but i really don't care how long your video's are because they are always informative and plainly just a lot of fun.so keep on making your vids how YOU want! and i'm one subscriber who will always watch without complaints.so sir thank you for your time.
Thank you. I just bought two new axes, both 3.5lb Michigan Style axes by Garant which were available at Canadian Tire. I bought two of the only three Garant Axes that had heads stamped "India". All of the other Garant axes were stamped from China. The difference between the Chinese and the Indian axes, were noticeable from the distance of down the aisle upon approach. The Indian steel axes are vastly, vastly superior. I can't spend hundreds of dollars on an Axe, bought I got both of these for 150 dollars after tax. Nice hickory handles have excellent grain patterns on them, and will clean up nicely. Anyway, I can't believe that the next axes on the shelf by the same company, were the same price but a fraction of the quality. What a time to be alive.
This is why I love your channel. I feel Like I am there! I have gotten hooked on Paul Sellers channel after to mentioned him a while again because he does things in a similar way.
Can't wait until you all come to PA. My family and I really look forward to meeting you all. Thank You for sharing your Life with us. You have been a real Blessing!
+paemt6220 Thank you. See you there!
Really helpful video, thanks!
Dunno if this has been mentioned before, but varnish also helps preserve the wood when it's being sent overseas.
Great tips and videography as always!
I got a couple of gränsfors bruks axes here and they all came with a varnished handle with boiled linseed oil apperantly
I love that knife ...such a nice gift that guy gave ya...great vid. God bless you and your family
the way i took all the varnish and paint off my bacho was with a burner. i burnt it all off then sanded it back untill i had a nice contrast between the black and wood. then linseed oil. the paint on the head came off nicely with acetone. she looks amazing now. mine came with a very blunt edge. cuts nice and deep now though.
Great video! Thanks for the shout out! I'm glad one of my songs fit your video. I'll be sending the new music once we get back in the studio.
+Josh Merrell I am so sorry Josh I misspelled your last name. I'll get it right next time,
C
Im sorry to say that at first I didn't like your channel but after watching a few more of your videos I have subscribed :) I love your workmanship and passion for what you do and that's great, keep the awesome videos coming!
I had a piece of drift wood that I had whittled down to the shape and length that I needed it for a aquarium center piece using a fixed blade that my uncle gave me years ago for my birthday it was the first time I really used it, I sharpened it up so nicely that all I had to do for the hours I was using it was strap it
Good video. Nice to see various methods. Thanks
You can also use the spine of a bushcraft type knife with a good sharp spine that works well or even if you have an old thin longer knife that can bend well that works really good too
Wranglerstar, which hatchet would be the absolute best for camp.., hiking style..?
Thanks
That is a beautiful Deering kniv! It also looks very functional
So is it just me... or does Cody get a little Bob Ross when he's using the spoke shave? I love the video Cody! Thank you for contributing to the collective knowledge of the Wrankglerstar community.
Bought a truper 2 1/2 pound camp axe on clearence for 12.99 tuned the edge with a mill file and diamond stone to about 1000 grit buts hair off my arms took some serious work though the edge was pretty hard suprisingly and the handle actually has a good grain orientation and is not warped either direction
The closest to correct ‘’husqvarna’’ pronunciation outside Scandinavia, award goes to wranglerstar
Take your time! I would love to see all that you have to offer! Make the videos long!!!