Thanks heaps. I always say I am never doing another axe because it is hard dirty work but I always relent and am happy with the result. Hey I love chillies I’ll check out your channel.
What I love about your work mate apart from the obvious love and care that goes into each restoration is that more often or not I see something I've not seen before like a spoon carving freaking axe :D
I had spoon carving on the mind around then, it is a massive craze and made it as a gift for the lady who commissioned that Roubo work bench. She wants to teach spoon carving. The only regrets with this axe is that i did not take some shavings with it on camera, before i gave it away. it sliced as sharp as a hand chisel.
Thanks Drew, I could have found a more clean piece of wood, if i remember rightly it was cut from an old sleeper. I knew the knot was going to be there, just not so bad, but I am glad with the choice. My only regret was not demonstrating it. It slices like a chisel just with a push.
Sorry Lee, missed your comment, but yeah thanks, that was just an off-cut from a hardwood sleeper, normally considered junk wood because it has too many knots and is too hard to work. Looking back i should have stabilized the knot with resin before cutting the toe, but it turned out great.
Wish I had a belt sander! currently putting a flat bevel onto an old Sheffield steel kent pattern axe head to make it into a side axe! It's taking me ages! 😮💨 Lovely job on the axe!
Thanks MaybuTron, Kent Pattern axe heads are beautiful, and in my neck of the woods they are hard to come by, unlike samders....That old sander was given to me by by my Dad and caught fire at one stage because the sparks were flying into the dust bag. I bought another one for $15 and it worked great until i burnt out the motor, then recently I was given another by a friend and that one has been great. Sanders seem to find me lol.
I am thinking of doing something similar and would have loved seeing you chopping out a spoon billet out with the finished axe! How does it work for this? Anything you would do differently? Any advise on the process? Thanks BTW the axe handle is beautiful!
Hi Terry, I basically gifted it to my friend straight after making it so never actually used it. if I made another one I would cut more metal from the head so that you can get your hand further up the shaft. The single bevel turned out good as it makes a thinner sharper edge like a chisel though you would have to decide which edge to grind flat. The next Axe will have two straight edge bevels for two handed flexibility and edge durability. Matt
Beautiful carving axe! I'm not sure why the CZcams algorithm put this video in my feed, but I'm glad it did. I enjoyed viewing. I'm not a woodworker. What type of wood is that handle? Thank you!
Hello, I am glad you enjoyed my video. The wood is from an old hardwood sleeper I got from the garden. It was some sort of eucalyptus. Normally you would pick some straight grain timber that is easy to shape for axes. But am happy with how it turned out. My only regret is that I did not get dome shots of it in use. Cheers.
Hi P Do, I have not noticed the jaw width as a limitation and have not measured it but estimate it to be 10 inches. I could get all the measurements tonight if you need to know but it also opens quite wide. and have never hit a limitation there either. It is a really good vise and assume it is older than the bench but i am getting to the point where the wooden jaws are starting to wear out and need to weld the knob back on the handle and I think that would make a great video. My Dad built this work bench and I really love this Carter vise, thanks.
@@Saw-IT thats awesome that it opens up to 10". would love to know how wide the face plate is 7 or 9" maybe? being an old vise, does it move in and out pretty tight wo any sloppiness? quick release capablity? never heard of the brand and nothing showed up on google search. im looking for a vintage vise for the bench im building....yours look interesting
@@SmallGameHunter Hi, I measured it and have got the actual measurements. With the wooden jaw plates it opens to 9" and jaw width is 9" or 10" with the wooden jaw installed. Carter (was) made in Australia and you might have more luck searching for one by using the Australian spelling VICE. it does not rack at all and winds in and out smooth without slop. it has been used a lot in its life and still has a lot of life left. You see a few on www.gumtree.com.au but you would need to get the Australian seller to post it to you. Not many do, it is mainly a local pickup site because there is no buyer protection like eBay. I posted some pics on my community page. czcams.com/users/MatthewPainterscommunity if you want a closer look. Cheers.
Hi P Do, Since you showed interest in my vice I have taken more interest in it also. I just uploaded a restoration video you might find like. The vice was manufactured post ww2 about 1950 and is very similar to the design used by the Australian manufacturer DAWN.
Hi Sue, that's Interesting, I did think about this and put the bevel on the right hand side of the blade so if held in the right hand the blade is less likely to dig in. The old axe head lent itself to be shaped this way so I just went with it, I did not plan to make a single bevel axe in the beginning. I can still put a second bevel on it for her but it is handy to have different tools sometimes. My friend who i made it for was looking to buy an axe for spoon carving anyway so she may still do that but a good one is pretty expensive.
Thanks Sue, that's a great idea. I have some small carving chisels from Dad that could do it so I am going to start practicing. My next video is an antique drill press restore but I want to move into more creative stuff like that.
@@suecollins3246 Ah thanks, now i have seen what they look like, I will make 2 so I can carve the handle of the other. And thanks for the inspiration.
@Sue Collins I have started my journey into Kolrosing due to your inspiration so I thought you might like this video.czcams.com/video/XVLmQ17TGK0/video.html
Yeah sorry Jim, I am sad about that. I did slice off some shavings using it like a big chisel as a test but the camera had stopped recording and by the time I noticed, I had already given it away.
Mat Painter, you absolutely, positively must see this! Re: axe bevel geometry I gets real juicy toward the end, especially @ 20;50 czcams.com/video/DQ9KHTo6AQA/video.html I'm doing exact same thing you are! - for making shoe lasts. But just learned why you don't want a single bevel carpenter's axe. Mat, you're 95% there! Your axe just needs another half hours work to be perfect.
Thanks ! That guy is cool and one of my subscriptions. This axe was a spur of the moment type project and it just turned out that way, and I then did some research and decided to gift it to my friend who was looking to buy a very expensive axe for her spoon carving. Not sure how useful it turned our for her but 22 40 of that other video mentions the exception where a flat bevel is desired and that is for working on narrow work pieces. I did not know that. but spoons are very narrow. I took some shavings like as if it was a chisel before giving it away and unfortunately lost that footage or forgot to press record. That would have made this video perfect. Thanks for sharing.
@@Saw-IT I almost always buy real expensive stuff. But the more I thought about it the more I just wanted good steel, forged - but by hand?! Anyway, I started with thinking about a Swedish axe at $170 and ended up buying a fine axe from El Salvador for $28. Planning on making an asymmetrical , left handed, carpenters axe out of it, much as you did.
@@jthepickle7 Oh yeah, that is a good trick, though the last axe video i posted, i skipped the rag and just went at it with a file. i was only asked to sharpen the axe but the last person butchered the edge with a grinder and it took a lot of work. I also posted some other axe reshaping videos and some of those are on by display wall. If I do another one it will be like one of those beautiful carving axes in that video you shared. You can never have enough axes. LOL
That's a beautiful carving axe you made.
Good job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome video, love the fact you kept it cool as not to affect the heat treat. Good video man
Thanks heaps. I always say I am never doing another axe because it is hard dirty work but I always relent and am happy with the result. Hey I love chillies I’ll check out your channel.
Impressive, awesome job.
Thank you very much!
Beautiful axe. Great work.
Thanks John, I particularly love that burl grain at the end of the handle.
What I love about your work mate apart from the obvious love and care that goes into each restoration is that more often or not I see something I've not seen before like a spoon carving freaking axe :D
I had spoon carving on the mind around then, it is a massive craze and made it as a gift for the lady who commissioned that Roubo work bench. She wants to teach spoon carving. The only regrets with this axe is that i did not take some shavings with it on camera, before i gave it away. it sliced as sharp as a hand chisel.
Matthew! That is a piece of art. Good fix on that handle.
Thanks Drew, I could have found a more clean piece of wood, if i remember rightly it was cut from an old sleeper. I knew the knot was going to be there, just not so bad, but I am glad with the choice. My only regret was not demonstrating it. It slices like a chisel just with a push.
awesome little carver. that wood is amazing!!!
Sorry Lee, missed your comment, but yeah thanks, that was just an off-cut from a hardwood sleeper, normally considered junk wood because it has too many knots and is too hard to work. Looking back i should have stabilized the knot with resin before cutting the toe, but it turned out great.
Wish I had a belt sander! currently putting a flat bevel onto an old Sheffield steel kent pattern axe head to make it into a side axe! It's taking me ages! 😮💨 Lovely job on the axe!
Thanks MaybuTron, Kent Pattern axe heads are beautiful, and in my neck of the woods they are hard to come by, unlike samders....That old sander was given to me by by my Dad and caught fire at one stage because the sparks were flying into the dust bag. I bought another one for $15 and it worked great until i burnt out the motor, then recently I was given another by a friend and that one has been great. Sanders seem to find me lol.
I am thinking of doing something similar and would have loved seeing you chopping out a spoon billet out with the finished axe! How does it work for this? Anything you would do differently? Any advise on the process?
Thanks BTW the axe handle is beautiful!
Hi Terry, I basically gifted it to my friend straight after making it so never actually used it. if I made another one I would cut more metal from the head so that you can get your hand further up the shaft. The single bevel turned out good as it makes a thinner sharper edge like a chisel though you would have to decide which edge to grind flat. The next Axe will have two straight edge bevels for two handed flexibility and edge durability. Matt
Beautiful carving axe! I'm not sure why the CZcams algorithm put this video in my feed, but I'm glad it did. I enjoyed viewing. I'm not a woodworker. What type of wood is that handle? Thank you!
Hello, I am glad you enjoyed my video. The wood is from an old hardwood sleeper I got from the garden. It was some sort of eucalyptus. Normally you would pick some straight grain timber that is easy to shape for axes. But am happy with how it turned out. My only regret is that I did not get dome shots of it in use. Cheers.
awesome job, Matthew! May I ask what vise is that you are using (carter?), jaw width and how do you like it? thank you!
Hi P Do, I have not noticed the jaw width as a limitation and have not measured it but estimate it to be 10 inches.
I could get all the measurements tonight if you need to know but it also opens quite wide. and have never hit a limitation there either.
It is a really good vise and assume it is older than the bench but i am getting to the point where the wooden jaws are starting to wear out and need to weld the knob back on the handle and I think that would make a great video. My Dad built this work bench and I really love this Carter vise, thanks.
@@Saw-IT thats awesome that it opens up to 10". would love to know how wide the face plate is 7 or 9" maybe? being an old vise, does it move in and out pretty tight wo any sloppiness? quick release capablity? never heard of the brand and nothing showed up on google search. im looking for a vintage vise for the bench im building....yours look interesting
@@SmallGameHunter Hi, I measured it and have got the actual measurements. With the wooden jaw plates it opens to 9" and jaw width is 9" or 10" with the wooden jaw installed. Carter (was) made in Australia and you might have more luck searching for one by using the Australian spelling VICE. it does not rack at all and winds in and out smooth without slop. it has been used a lot in its life and still has a lot of life left. You see a few on www.gumtree.com.au but you would need to get the Australian seller to post it to you. Not many do, it is mainly a local pickup site because there is no buyer protection like eBay. I posted some pics on my community page. czcams.com/users/MatthewPainterscommunity if you want a closer look. Cheers.
@@Saw-IT awesome! Thank you so much Matthew!!
Hi P Do, Since you showed interest in my vice I have taken more interest in it also. I just uploaded a restoration video you might find like. The vice was manufactured post ww2 about 1950 and is very similar to the design used by the Australian manufacturer DAWN.
I suppose if you are either right or left handed the axe only _needs_ a single bevel - which side did you put the bevel on?
Hi Sue, that's Interesting, I did think about this and put the bevel on the right hand side of the blade so if held in the right hand the blade is less likely to dig in. The old axe head lent itself to be shaped this way so I just went with it, I did not plan to make a single bevel axe in the beginning. I can still put a second bevel on it for her but it is handy to have different tools sometimes. My friend who i made it for was looking to buy an axe for spoon carving anyway so she may still do that but a good one is pretty expensive.
Now put your mark on it...
Now decorate the handle with a nice Kolrosing pattern!
Thanks Sue, that's a great idea. I have some small carving chisels from Dad that could do it so I am going to start practicing. My next video is an antique drill press restore but I want to move into more creative stuff like that.
Mathew, you will need a Kolrosing knife...
@@suecollins3246 Ah thanks, now i have seen what they look like, I will make 2 so I can carve the handle of the other. And thanks for the inspiration.
@Sue Collins I have started my journey into Kolrosing due to your inspiration so I thought you might like this video.czcams.com/video/XVLmQ17TGK0/video.html
150.00 $$ would ya take ????
Hi Tracy, Thanks, that sounds generous. I made it as a gift for a friend. I will let her know your offer and I will post back.
Sad no chips.
Yeah sorry Jim, I am sad about that. I did slice off some shavings using it like a big chisel as a test but the camera had stopped recording and by the time I noticed, I had already given it away.
Mat Painter, you absolutely, positively must see this! Re: axe bevel geometry
I gets real juicy toward the end, especially @ 20;50
czcams.com/video/DQ9KHTo6AQA/video.html
I'm doing exact same thing you are! - for making shoe lasts. But just learned why you don't want a single bevel carpenter's axe. Mat, you're 95% there! Your axe just needs another half hours work to be perfect.
Thanks ! That guy is cool and one of my subscriptions. This axe was a spur of the moment type project and it just turned out that way, and I then did some research and decided to gift it to my friend who was looking to buy a very expensive axe for her spoon carving. Not sure how useful it turned our for her but 22 40 of that other video mentions the exception where a flat bevel is desired and that is for working on narrow work pieces. I did not know that. but spoons are very narrow. I took some shavings like as if it was a chisel before giving it away and unfortunately lost that footage or forgot to press record. That would have made this video perfect. Thanks for sharing.
@@Saw-IT I almost always buy real expensive stuff. But the more I thought about it the more I just wanted good steel, forged - but by hand?! Anyway, I started with thinking about a Swedish axe at $170 and ended up buying a fine axe from El Salvador for $28. Planning on making an asymmetrical , left handed, carpenters axe out of it, much as you did.
@@Saw-IT "The Rag Trick"
czcams.com/video/tWIxWjrhpv0/video.html
@@jthepickle7 it is a fun project and real glad I connected with you.
@@jthepickle7 Oh yeah, that is a good trick, though the last axe video i posted, i skipped the rag and just went at it with a file. i was only asked to sharpen the axe but the last person butchered the edge with a grinder and it took a lot of work. I also posted some other axe reshaping videos and some of those are on by display wall. If I do another one it will be like one of those beautiful carving axes in that video you shared. You can never have enough axes. LOL