🔴 The Poetic Working Axe - Norwegian Bearded Axe or Laftebile
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Pronounced lafter beeleh, the Norwegian bearded axe is a tool specialised for making the corner notches on timber houses but it can also be used for hewing. My axes have short handles but they can have handles a good deal longer too. They are still being used on the building site of every person who builds log houses here in Scandinavia, and are truly contemporary working axes. My Swedish felling axe gets a mention too....
www.dahlmo.no
norheimsmia.no (the Smiths who made these laftebiler.)
©Lucas Richard Stephens / Bono 2019 - Věda a technologie
The real poetry is the artist who knows how to use and care for tools. I have seen so many once fine woodworking axes abused by ignorance and even shear stupidity! It is a pleasure to watch you use and care for your tools. Du er den dyktig poetisk kunstner.
Takk Takk
a hell of a good tool...In the right hands
Thanks for watching, do you chop?
Awesome. Beautiful work.
Takk Takk
Love it love it love it
Good job.
Thanks John
Mesmerizing. I could watch it for hours. I got to try hewing more timbers.
Big Woodsman looks like you have a specialist hewing broad axe there
@@LucasRichardStephens I sure do. I have received a couple now. I must put them into action.
Really nice video. I suppose the UK equivalent would be the kent pattern axe, used for just about every application
Thanks Ben, I was thinking a kind of promo for the subject, to show that the axe is still used at work.
Awesome
thanks for watching
Nice vid
Takk Takk
awesome talent, awesome axe. Lucas i picked up a pair of germanic gosewings, from the 1700s, someone rehandled them and did a very nice job.
Wayne I am convinced you could start an axe museum. How is you guitar coming along?
@@LucasRichardStephens the guitar is on hold, i need to work on it at my brothers shop, just can't get together.
@@waynebrown1609 Your spending too much time fiddling with your axes....
@@waynebrown1609 I just had my guitar dropped with a capo clamped to the top which, adding leverage made a neat head brake, so I have some repair work on the "to do" list..
@@LucasRichardStephens oh no, see a lot of that kind of damage, take a look at rosa string works, he does soom almost impossible repairs, he's as good as you with his hands.
Nice blue nail ... seems your working hard Lucas
I have had some back injury this winter and have had to take it a bit easy. I don't know what I had on my hands that day but it is not since the garage job that I have had a blue nail, it is clearly part of my general unkempt style, what I now know to be known as "Hobo chic" ( as applied by AVE to Dewclaws attire this week).
@@LucasRichardStephens Hobo chic? That would be like an offspring of the Jordbærmus-guy :hahah
Veldig bra. Been in Fyresdal i Telemark this summer and seen similar axes over there too. I would also like to ask about your blue sweater: Is it handmade or is it a Dale of Norway?
Juan Carrillo hi, the one heavier axe is made in Fyresdal, and the jumper, which I have two identical items of, are Dale ca. 1990 or a bit before....
Really nice short video that resume really well all that can be done with an axe!! like you know, I really like that type of axe but the price is a bit prohibitive unfortunately for me! Maybe one day!
I am sure you have local Blacksmiths that could adapt a boys axe for you David, bear in mind my lighter one is just an electro welded; mild steel plate with a carbon steel edge onto an inexpensive axe. I was just commenting to Tim from oxbow that my axe was made without even removing the handle (it has had four new ones since).
Not many black smith up here unfortunately... but maybe one day I’ll find something!
David Gendron Where are you from, if I might ask? Gendron is really French Canadian. I know a few blacksmith .But yes: artisans are expensive . But it’s also a choice of supporting the trade. Nonetheless, it’s true that you can make one by TIG.
ikust007 Canadian indeed!!
David Gendron From... if I may ask...?
I've coveted one for a long time, but they are $$ to import to the US. I know you mentioned somewhere in some comments that you Laftebile is actually welded up in pieces from a boy's axe? Did you mean it was forge welded or just arc welded and ground?
It is just arc welded and ground yes, check out my reply to your comment the other day, all the best.
So can you go into more detail about the variations of Laftebile sometime? It seems like they are a range of sizes, am I correct in thinking that yours is on the small-medium size range? From what limited info I've been able to gather in English it seems like most typically they are double bevel, but some of them are chisel ground/single bevel, I assume those are dedicated to a single purpose like hewing?
@@oxbowfarm5803 czcams.com/video/yEpng3UPjF0/video.html Have a look at this film there are a couple of heavier axes and some other bits and bobs. I had a look for some more stuff on the corner cogging and there is precious little even in Norwegian, maybe now is the time to write a book about it.
@@LucasRichardStephens I would buy that book. I would really like to understand Scandinavian log notches and lafting in general. I think I've finally scoured enough to find that "timring" and "dalaknut" are much more effective Google-foo search terms to use than "Lafting". Lafting is interpreted as a mispelling by the search engine. I've now found a bunch of good images of some of these notches, and there is a great video from the Hantverkslaboratoriet with all kinds of style/variations. czcams.com/video/2gjSuxoYEKs/video.html But knowing the basic shape of the notch doesn't really teach me how to scribe it or lay it out. It isn't clear to me how to decide where the cuts should start and stop etc. There isn't really much if anything in English about this full scribe log building system at all that I can find. I hope you write that book, or at least maybe make a video explaining notching/cogging/scribing in at least an overview. I enjoy watching the videos in Norwegian/Swedish/Finnish, but it would be nice to have some narration that I understand.
Oxbow Farm dear sir, I suppose that you are already in the trade/timber framing? You already do the scribing method ? If not, Jack Sobon is a reference .
Anyone know a forge that makes these?
norheimsmia.no www.dahlmo.no these two smiths made the axes in this film
What is the size of this axe? :) in inches
I don't know but it is quite small , maybe 20cm edge
Superb use of the worlds most abused tool..................Cheers
Thanks very much!
do you sell such an axe?
No but these people do; norheimsmia.no/
Hello, what is the weight of the axe head?
about the same as a melon
@@LucasRichardStephens Cantaloupe or watermelon?
@@77pmcollins honeydew
@@LucasRichardStephens Wrapped in tin foil and impregnated with cocktail stick skewers of pickled onions, cheese and pineapple, or as it comes?
@@77pmcollins yes just straight up
Spooning........isn't that something you do with your best girl?
Forking is better than spooning
@@LucasRichardStephens...I read in a book somewhere that one might lead to the other.......and then to multiplication of species.