I snagged a rusty old Welland Vale hewing hatchet from FB marketplace and found your video as a result and the steel is in a vinegar bath as we speak. I'll surely be using your video as a guide for my restoration but I wanted to comment because I lost my Dad earlier this year and he was an avid carpenter literally to the day he died. Your video really made me feel like when I used to do projects with him so sincerely thank you for this amazing content!
Sorry for your loss. I have used UA-cam videos for a pick me up and inspiration many times. I hope this video is helpful and good luck on your restoration project.
I work at an ACE Hardware store and one of our regular customers came in one day looking for a new handle for his "hatchet" that he used for chopping kindling when he went camping. We didn't have a suitable handle for one so instead he bought a new one. Instead of throwing the old hatchet away, he gave it to me. Actually this hatchet is a Keen Kutter Hewing Hatchet that I essentially did the same thing you did. It now has a new home on the wall of my shop.
Very nice. I will have to try the black tea. I just finished a mid 1800s C Hammonds hand axe for a good friend. I have two Hewing hatchets i need to do.
Do you have a video (and/or plans) for that little 1x30 bench grinder attachment you made to keep the correct bevel @ 10:56? I've got one of those little HF 1x30s and that would be super useful.
I snagged a rusty old Welland Vale hewing hatchet from FB marketplace and found your video as a result and the steel is in a vinegar bath as we speak. I'll surely be using your video as a guide for my restoration but I wanted to comment because I lost my Dad earlier this year and he was an avid carpenter literally to the day he died. Your video really made me feel like when I used to do projects with him so sincerely thank you for this amazing content!
Sorry for your loss. I have used UA-cam videos for a pick me up and inspiration many times. I hope this video is helpful and good luck on your restoration project.
I work at an ACE Hardware store and one of our regular customers came in one day looking for a new handle for his "hatchet" that he used for chopping kindling when he went camping. We didn't have a suitable handle for one so instead he bought a new one. Instead of throwing the old hatchet away, he gave it to me. Actually this hatchet is a Keen Kutter Hewing Hatchet that I essentially did the same thing you did. It now has a new home on the wall of my shop.
No telling how many great hatchets snd axes get tossed because of a broken handle
Very nice. I will have to try the black tea. I just finished a mid 1800s C Hammonds hand axe for a good friend. I have two Hewing hatchets i need to do.
Good video, you deserve more subscribers!
Left handed handle setting in a hewing hatchet is great for hogging off bark and branches.
I kept looking for the edge sharpening?
Do you have a video (and/or plans) for that little 1x30 bench grinder attachment you made to keep the correct bevel @ 10:56? I've got one of those little HF 1x30s and that would be super useful.
Sorry I don't have a video for that angle jig. That one is just a prototype I have been testing.
Very nice -- I have an ax head just like that one I recently found while metal detecting.
Great job
Priceless
ya gotta love spokeshaves ;)
pěkná práce,ale to topůrko se mi ne sekyrku zdá moc tenké a kulaté,použil bych ho spíše na kladívko.
Beauty!
No offset handle?