Woodscraft: How To Make High Quality Axe Handles Yourself. Making The Blanks
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The Handle/Haft Blanks Are Now Drying A Little. More In The Next One :)
If had your address I would try to send you some hickory from the US
( IF Allowed ) for handles, it doesn't get any better than that...:-)
I often wonder how well our 2 countries could get along if the Leaders would get out of the way and let us Peasants to be friends...:-)
TheTallhillbilly I 2nd that, speaking for us brits to
Little Bull - Yep, you speak the truth. Political leeches, ALL of them.
Ditto for us Germans
Stashed in the house rafters or the green house?
My Dad states that You value your hand-tools more & treat them gentler only after You have re-handled them on your own from bottom-up - so this reminded me of my Dad's saying. ATB & Keep up the good work, Lars!
There are certainly some truth to that Gereon. :) Thank you and cheers friend!
CONGRATULATIONS ! For being the first ever youtuber to edit the volume of the chainsaw scene : )
BUSHCRAFT AND FISHING WITH THE PIKEY yep I was thinking that too!
His chainsaw have built-in noise suppressor lol
What you don't like keeping the an active hand on your volume control? :)
it was really pleasant
I'm really looking forward to the Survival Russia vehicle!
Working on it! :)
As a finn i can smell, hear and feel those bugs even tho i am on vacation in Austria
I am sure you can :) I have been in Finland two times.
Thank you! You make it look so easy, I bet it took half the day plus filming and editing on top, keep up your great work.
Excellent and useful advice Lars. Thanks for sharing.
Some proper logical thinking, experience and technique is what its all about. Love your videos mate. Your ingenuity is inspiring.
Glad to see you cutting a dead and/or down tree. I enjoy your videos very much. Thanks for sharing them with us.
Felling a full sized Birch for axe handles would be a crime.
God! You are phenomenal!!!! What with all those bugs you make a video for us, you are made of tougher stuff than I've seen in the U.S!
looks like it is going to be a nice handle,
the pink troll did a hell of a job 👍
I never would have thought birch was strong enough for axe handles, but I will definitely try now on your recommendation. Thanks for the video!
I think it's important to mention that the slower growth rate of birch (and pine) in northern climes, like Russia and Scandinavia leads to a far superior timber than we have here in the UK or Western Europe from the same trees. Thank you for a really informative and more importantly well demonstrated video.
Congrats miss pink troll, fantastic video control, making papa proud...oh ya you were good too Lars 😜 happy Father's Day.
Thank you Robe :) Happy Fathers Day!
whats all this fathers day stuff , fathers day isnt till september the third.I expect I will get another voucher from the hunting shop. Oh Well
I agree. Great camera work by the Pink Troll.
The Pink Troll did a great job with the camera.
Awesome video and really good woodsman-ship in the forest, thanks for taking us along. And GREAT camerawork there at the end! : )
Great demonstration of woodcraft skills. Looking forward to seeing the next stage. As always thanks for sharing. ATB
Hallo Lars. Danke für dieses tolle Video. Schon krass diese Wildnis vor Deiner Haustüre... Manchmal wünsche ich mir so viel ungestörten Aktionsradius zu haben wie Du!! Liebe Grüsse
Felix
I love watching your content I can see the passion you put into your videos and into responding to comments
A great project and great cinematography!
Great video as always Lars!
Those are some nice blanks you got!
It's always nice to be able to pick and choose what you want.
Thanks for teaching me a bit about wood!
It'll be great once the SRV is fully operational!
The Pink Troll ain't too bad at the camera!
the mosquitos are so thick on camera that I found my reflexes working !
That's some beautiful looking wood.
Pink troll kept it centred did a good job Your going to be fixing axes for the whole village now
happy Father's day Lars 😀I really enjoy this kind of video...I love the idea of making what you need and not buying it. also your pink troll did an awesome job with the camera
Wow! You watched to the end Adam :) Thanks buddy.
Survival Russia yes sir I have been waiting on this video.. you live the homestead life that I wish I could.. I enjoy working with my hands and you give me a lot of great ideas
Great axe work Lars and good camera work from the pink troll. Thank you and Happy Fathers day.
Good stuff great that you shared. Interesting to make blanks as you did. 👍
Thank you :)
I appreciate your videos Lars, reminds me of splitting hickory with my dad to make handles for lots of things. I would always keep a piece to make a bow with. Happy trails!
Nice video Lars. Happy fathers day. The pink troll is pretty good with the camera. I put new home made handles on many axes and shovels but it is nice to see somebody else do it, and use a different wood. I learned a lot from this video. You should catch and fry up those flying `bombers`. Then you don`t have to carry food with you into the bush. LOL
Nice one Lars. You just gave me the clue I needed for correctly splitting some elm logs I picked up a year or two back. Cheers.
The pink troll utilisation is awesome. What an asset she is becoming!
Some good tips here. I have some ash billets left over from a bow making project that have been drying for the last year or so. I must get working on some good axe handles soon! Thanks again for the great content Lars!
Sounds like a plan :)
1:13 - so satisfying, I'm looking forward to making my own as well. Can't wait to see the rest of this!
happy fathers day lars, keep up the great job :D
nice find , Lars! lol good stock!!!
Lars hope to see the making of the handle making, Cheers
I of course plan to do handles as well. I have learned a bit from Russian masters :)
thanks I really enjoyed watching you have good advice I appreciate you for taking your time to share your experience with us another great video happy fathers day wish you all the very best my friend
Awesome video Lars like I knew it was going to be. Now think of all the spoons and cups you can make put of the remaining wood! Thousands!! Awesome! The whole time you were talking about carrying the wood back I was thinking of the SR Vehicle!
You also are making good rifle/shotgun stock blanks. Genius!
Happy father's day!
Thank you!
Survival Russia
Aye!
Lars, the hardest working person on CZcams.
cant believe how quickly the weeds grow cant recongnize the forest from a month ago
That's true Hunter :) Soon some will be man-high.
Hi Lars,
Happy Father's Day from the real northern California.
happy fathers day lars
awesome video in great display of your skills handling an axe. Happy Father's Day Lars!
Good! Keep it up!
Awesome Lars, i like your videos, big thumb up :-)
Thank you Christian :)
Please Thank the pink troll for her good camera work , and thanks for this most informative video , learned many things . Here in Canada , Hickory is used for handles , but I always thought Birch would be good to . Mike out
Lar's bloody good effort getting out there in that mozzy infested bogland. You really have great patience and i learnt a lot about wood selection here. I think we need to get you an Argo or Unimog for that type of bush, you can nip in and out and not have to dress like a space man each time, lol. 😜 I hope yourrepellentt gets to you soon. Cheers mate. ATB Moose.
Nice. Birch wood is very good.
HI LARS I DONT KNOW HOW YOU DEAL WITH THE MOSQUITOS. WOW. I REALLY ENJOYED WATCH HOW TO MAKE THESE HANDLES THANK YOU.
great job thank you for your knowledge and expertise I cannot use an axe or Hatchet every time I use an axe or a hatchet I seem to have a split personality LOL enjoy as much time with the pink troll in the woods as you can they grow up fast
Happy father day THANKS GOD Bless you and you're family THANKS.
Thansk Ozz :)
excellent!!!....Happy Fathers Day
Pink Troll Cam was better than 90% of youtubers, I mean, to start with it wasn't shot vertically! I've been making tool handles this year too, spade and fork and hammer handles needed to be replaced. It's enjoyable. I cheat for the spade and fork though, the majority of work is done on the lathe.
great..!. looking forward for the next one!
you know many CZcams channels say that BATONING is the only way to split wood lol just saying hahaha hehehehe hahaha hehehehe. you rock sir 😇. thanks much for everything you do!!
Great effort Lars, the folks a Silky must be getting worried with two axes , a chainsaw and a Silky no-show. The ALICE frame with the cargo shelf is a great transportation rig.. Thanks, Greg in Eastern Thailand
Holy macrow 7 minute commercial....okay it is for a good cause...your forest is knife handle heaven🔪👍
See, he knows how to use axes!
Hello Lar's, an excellent and informative video, i really enjoy your show's, i wait with anticipation in seeing you drive around in your Russian jeep . Take care!
The lovely sound of wood cracking :) hmmmm
Thanx Lars :)
Winter time Russia just rolls off the tounge much easier. Good video.
Yup :)
nice skill Lars
I feel your pain with the gnats. Looks like mine have come back from their Russian vacation. Working for hours in the sun in 32+c weather, I end up wearing netting around my hat--feel like a bee keeper but it keeps the gnats out.
I hate mosquitoes that's one thing good about dry scrub and desert--No mosquitoes.
Lars, I most likely won't have to make an axe handle but if I do it will be a good one, thanks! Pink Troll did a good job filming too:)
helpful thanks.
How a bout a Lar's swallowing bugs video compilation.... LOL Little Pink Troll did a good job with the camera for the first time!
You are great and you're survival Russia vehicle is oh so very different from what I'm use too in as a technician from American vehicles of the same era
A Quad bike would be helpful for little jobs like this Lars, there brilliant for your kind of terrain and the Pink troll is definately better in front of the camera although her camera work was alright, cheers, atb.
Thanks Lars,
Daaaaamn it's Kapkan!!!
liked the mute sound of the chain saw
Yet another great video, those mosquito's are crazy thick. That was a great find out there, is the birch bark still good that you removed for starting fires? It's father's day here in the US, so happy father's day Lars!
happy Father's day Lars! you are kind of crazy with that axe I was afraid you would hit your leg.. but great video
Lars I can't wait to see what's to come of these handles, another awesome video my friend. This video reminded me of one you did maybe 8 months to a year ago about the knife blank you received, Yakuta i believe it was (forgive my spelling haha) I've been making many knife handles the last many months and I would love to see a video of what you came up with for it what you will come up with for it, I have found some of the blanks online on etsy for around $60 US dollars, I want to get one soon and save for when I find a special piece of wood. Stay big free my friend.
-Kyle
Nice video Lars :D
Thanks! :)
Great vid as usual. Happy Father's Day. Too bad you don't have birds to eat all those bugs. Here in the South our Martins and bats eat a lot of skeeters. When the bugs are really bad outside work is done early and late in the day. Looking forward to the next vid.
That's some pretty awesome birch wood for carving too in bushcraft projects. Wll, the forest looked fine and fresh, shame that it's also so wet under foot, it's no doubt ideal breading ground for mossies and gnats, ugh! Shame, I cannot see myself popping off to the local wood to fetch myself some suitable carving wood as the owners might not like it. lol Now, I reckon that to buy a huge forest in Russia will not be as enormously expensive as it is here in England. Never mind, I can dream and watch your amazing videos in the meantime, Lars. Take care...
I don't miss those mosquitoes at all. There are mosquitoes up in the mountains but not anywhere near that thick. Here in the basin... none. I never knew how much I would love this semi-arid climate. We don't have birch trees but we do have aspen although I'm not sure how good of tool handles they would make. Might be worth a try.
Bravo Lars
awesome!
the flies! crazy
After seeing how you split wood to make shafts, I wonder if that is where the term Quarter Staff comes from.
A Quarter of what i thought? A 1/4 of a log perhaps.
That could very well be actually :)
Awesome
dam ur ad today was trailer for new planet of the apes movie I will be seeing this looks awesome love the new ones!
Thank you for your time Boz :)
Just trying to get ya some money!!
loving the vids man, thanks for letting me know about Varusteleka they are great too, oh are you Danish?
My pleasure :) Yes I am Danish. I have been living in Russia for about 7 yrs now.
This is almost medicinal to watch!
Super awesome :)
Careful with your axe cover when bashing wedges, I find if I don't take it off the axe edge will cut it open. Might depend on the style.
I know what you mean :) The cover has brass rivets but I should not do it anyway.
Survival Russia Ah, the two I've blown out (I didn't learn my lesson the first time) were stitched. Cheers, don't let those bugs eat you alive!
Actually... now that I think about it years ago I did also damage a fold over style one with rivets on the sides with a miss hit that struck the strap against the wedge and cut the strap, so still perhaps not the best thing to do... but I get lazy in the heat sometimes, probably the same as when you are getting eaten by bugs.
... that's an aluminium wedge that sometimes get sharp burrs during use
Awesome... 👊.. Get a mosquito hood. 😉. Midges are out now here in UK. Ya need a very fine mesh hood for these buggers!
I have plenty old old axe heads, if i can find a birch big enough out at the farm i will try this.
Need to make some high-walking stilts, with split bottoms (like deer hooves), so you can cross all those swamplands high and dry .... Can also be used as a travois carry system.
Almost gonna get on you about axe and hatchet splitting wood ... then you used the wedge. Made comment another YT vid about ancestors using smart ideas with specific wood splitting tools (before modern saws and band saw blades). Axes and mauls for deep wood work. But any real splitting is wood/metal/plastic wedges and a sledge hammer. No cutting blades; no personal injury. Wedge goes in one direction; no getting an axe or maul stuck in wood, and having to grab and wrestle blade out of wood. When splitting other wood items, multiple wedges can control splitting wood, posts, shakes, etc, instead of beating the crap out of your axe, maul, hatchet, tomahawk, machete, etc.
until the sledge slips and hit you in the shin xD
I was worried for your safety! Those mosquitoes looked big enough to deflect your axe away from the target!
Actually City small mosquitos are much worse. That mosquitoes is Big, but clumsy and not so painful, unlike city ones.
Hi Lars, you probably already know, but 'Nobite' with 50% Deet seems pretty good (haven't seen anything better against mosquitos yet).
damn Lars just watchin the vid made me want to put on skeeter spray,ill never complain about them at my place again
Holy cow Lars I didn't figure you as a chain saw user!!! What is this coming to?
Damn, I would go grazy with all those bugs!
You will get used to it, kind of :) Jeg har fundet ud af at man kan spise skvalderkål!! Det smager super godt. Jeg vil lave en video om det på et tidspunkt. Her er masser af gamle Russiske recepter. Det er I famillie med gulerødder for at det ikke skal være løgn :)
sørg for at tage de unge skud. Ellers kan de blive lidt bittert. Prøv at kombinere med den endnu grønne blomst/pind fra vejbred!
Det lyder interessant Lars :)
The baby saw child of my MS 660 Magnum.
Yup :) I have the big Stihl 066 as well. Can you still get parts for that saw in the US?
If a splitting axe is too sharp, it will cut instead of splitting. For straight grain woods it's never a problem. For twisted grain hard woods it is. A blunter splitting axe will produce more firewood with less effort.
Hi Lars, I love your videos and you 'caused' me great joy in the use of my gomboy 240 that i carry every time i walk now. Thank you for that. Have you considered wearing a mosquito net hat? 3 years ago i bought a couple of them and i wear one over a 'boonie' hat whenever they are bad, which is 3 months out of the year here sometimes. This year i found a chinese company on amazon that sells 2 with hoops to keep the netting off your face for 2 dollars fifety cents american. It's a tiny price for not having bugs on your face.
Birch is a very soft wood, used for some less expensive rifle stocks, they dent and scratch easily, -but are easily repaired like an easy to sharpen knife, that doesn't stay sharp that long. In the US we traditionally use a very hard wood (hickory) for making axe handles. What wood is usually used for this in Russia?
It depends on where you are in Russia, as Russia is almost twice the size of the US :) Birch is widely used in this and other areas, but I will think that further south they would use harder wood. Dry birch is relatively light, but strong.