Side axes are still a great option for a lot of things, and used a lot even today for hewing projects! They excel at straight lines, though do suffer a little when it comes to tight corners, so not ideal for spoon carving
@andyspoons thanks that would have been a problem. I used a small Norlund hatchet with a tomahawk shaped head to carve out my first spoon from a fallen black cherry tree. I had a Becker bushcraft Kephart knife and couple of rough rider slip joints to do the knife carving. One of the RRs was especially good for the bowl carving. It is called a cotton sampler pattern with one fairly large blade with a lot of belly out toward the tip with a good edge.
I use a Stijl woodcutters camp forester ax. Something like that works great 😊 I have others also. Thanks for sharing 😊
They work great, for sure 🙂👌
Have you ever used one of the vintage carving hatchets with the offset type blade? I enjoyed you videos.
Side axes are still a great option for a lot of things, and used a lot even today for hewing projects! They excel at straight lines, though do suffer a little when it comes to tight corners, so not ideal for spoon carving
@andyspoons thanks that would have been a problem. I used a small Norlund hatchet with a tomahawk shaped head to carve out my first spoon from a fallen black cherry tree. I had a Becker bushcraft Kephart knife and couple of rough rider slip joints to do the knife carving. One of the RRs was especially good for the bowl carving. It is called a cotton sampler pattern with one fairly large blade with a lot of belly out toward the tip with a good edge.
Yr the best axe man ive ever seen.amazeing job..i subbed also..
Right on, thank you so much!
So the carving ax is not needed from Julia. Can be done as normal
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