Bushcraft Axe - Care and Maintenance | Gransfors Bruks | MYSTERY AXE!
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Sharing my top tips for how we keep our axes sharp and protected at HVB.
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I cut old bike rubber innertubes and slide a 6" piece over the handle right up to the axe head, It's great for protecting it. I know it's not multi use but i can still use the rubber to help start a fire in bad weather
Just a suggestion.
Try laying the head on the bench or a stump and file it in that position I think you will find that the axe moves around a lot less and therefore a safer more efficient movement
If the boots are going into the bin as you say. A trick is to take the tongues out and use upholstery nails ( large brass heads ) to tack it on. Just another way. Or any leather.
Hi Nick, great video! I truly enjoy watching your videos, you are making a very positive impact in the world. BTW, your house is beautiful. Cheers mate from another war Veteran.
Just bought a roll of amalgamation tape to try out, looks ideal.
I've Just discovered your channel and I'm working my way through your videos, good stuff.
Bike innertubes are great for sliding up the ae handle. I use 6" sections and slide in up to the axe head.
Hi Nick. Another down to earth and informative video. Thank you and well done. I have a big roll of the self amalgamating tape that we also use in Amateur Radio for weatherproofing connectors into antennas for permanent installations and I have several rolls of desert brown sniper tape, plus loads of old bootlaces that I have kept from old pairs of boots. Guess what I'm going to be doing tomorrow. Keep up the good work. I'm in Torquay and look forward to getting up and seeing you after lockdown is lifted. Would love to come up for a few days and help out around the site.
I usually only tend to watch American uploads on the same subject as your videos. I must say how nice it is to watch a video from a fellow west country man. Great uploads
Bloody good video. The different tapes and applications was very interesting. Ta!
you have just brought back memories s.armagh n.ireland 85 the green tape was used as cam on our rifles the SLR AND AR 15 AS you say sniper tape we used the OLD SNIPER RIFLE the old 303 re bored to 7.62 great channel thanks for the dips on looking after your axes
Really appreciate the benefits of your experience and wisdom
I really enjoyed the video...very unique way to wrap the axe. When I sharpen tools, knives, or axes, I usually wear leather gloves to prevent the occasional cut from my hand/fingers going onto the blade (a bit clumsy, I suppose), but I works well.
My favourite overstrike protector is a piece of rawhide. You can get big roll of it in pet shops (sold as dog chews). Soak it to soften it, then cut a rectangle of the appropriate size out, wrap it around and sew it together at the back. When it dries it will shrink (which adds strength to the haft), and go rock hard. It's nice and thin too, so it's easy to slide your hand over it when working with the axe. This is a traditional overstrike protection method that can't be beat for my money.
Thank you for the tips. Greetings from Brazil.
Thank you for your videos,love every single of them !
Loving that rubber tape cheers for tip
This is a good add on to your last vid.Thanks Nick..best Cam👍🏻
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Thanks Nick, we’re keeping well, hope
Louise & Finn are ok! Cam
Self amalgamating tape is brilliant stuff and really tough. Offers fantastic grip too when getting a bit exuberant ! 😂😂
Useful, informative, and practical. Ta!
You can also search for gaffers tape if you're looking for a roll of sniper tape. Another name for it in a different industry.
For anyone OCD if you use round laces they sit alongside each other very neatly, leave a three inch tail of the laces wrap until three inch left and then tie off an tuck under, then use bicycle handlebar cotton tressorex or velox French branded old school tape its adhesive an good stuff is good if you don't get it neat first time it has a bias for directional wrapping on drop bars, but you can unwrap an rewind till you get it neat enough for your requirements. There's even leather handlebar wrap by brooks if your feeling retro an up market.
Some old timers use to fit axe heads and hammerheads with a innertubes, to take up any difference in handle to head figment it really grips then wood wedge it an cross anchor with metal wedges for 7lb hammers an sledgehammers 10lb an up,then leave the inner tube proud to guard the lower shaft, then wrap with hessian gum tape which was old plumbers wrap for outdoor cold weather protection, on pipes Some folks have referenced inner tube wrap in the comments which is a good call I particularly like that amalgateing tape used here I'm going to go with that an perhaps make a simple metal guard on the big axes make it an inch an a half taller then clamp together in vice should sit three quarter inches above then with a hole drilled half inch above when you fit a half sized penny washer between a quarter nut an bolt it really clamps up nice you can dress the ends round for aesthetics you'll never damage the hickory or ash handle then, best to all.
Nice show and tell there Nick i never thought 💭 of wrapping the handle thanks 🙏 for the idea 💡 oh and sorry 😐 for the lost of your boots 🥾 all boots go to heaven ✨😂 👍👌✌️🇺🇸
The thing with electric tape (Amalgamating tape) is that the glue ain't very strong so you've gotta make sure that you keep the end in a place where it won't get a lot of chafing.
It also has to stick to itself, it's not gonna stick very well if you put it directly on something else and don't wrap it around on itself.
Edit: What Nick said about the triple layer and fabric tape are really good tips honestly, fixes the chafing issue
Hey 30k subs. That’s up around 3.5k since I started watching a couple of weeks ago. Here’s to many more.
hiya, loving the videos and have subscribed, just wanted to check if you were aware of the typo in the opening title? maintenance is spelled incorrectly. I'm not trying to be a knob, just sometimes these things happen. keep up the good work, the friction fire videos are great.
I feel really stupid, that I did not have the idea with Trex myself😅 I stopped thinking after thinking about the vaseline because it is already multi purpose. Thanks alot!
Hard to find a nice sheath nowadays wish there’d be a link for but overall thanks for this advice
Hockey stick tape does the trick. Similar to the sniper tape.
Hey Nick, loving videos and channel! Keep them coming. You have a nack for explaining things in a really easily digestible manor, with a proper sense of humour it’s brill! I Have one quick question....I’ve just bought my first Hultafors axe and I’ve done the wrap with para cord and three wraps of self amalgamating tape, but I wanted to query the reason behind finishing the wrap with the different tape? Is there a specific reason why you can’t finish the wrap with the self amalgamating tape? Is it because you don’t want the self amalgamating tape to adhere to and possibly spoil the wooden shaft? Just really interested in the reasoning behind it? Many thanks dude! 👍
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 aaaah, I’ve got you! That’s great. Thanks for taking the time to explain. Cheers 👌
Hi Nick. Great axe care. Instead of that tape,60mm heat shrink is better.👍🏾
"Is it supposed to look beautiful, or does it have a job role?"
Yes.
looking at how much gear that outdoor and bushcraft youtubers use that comes from Sweden one could think that bushcrafting is all we do up here. and you'd be right.
Great video. My hatchet has a plastic handle. Would it require the protection as mentioned here?
Would bicycle chain oil work for the head of the axe?
I cant find that trex cream that you used for your lips and the axe and you use also for cooking... Would realy like to have such practical cream!!!
I think it's very similar to Crisco, if you're in N America
Find someone who looks at you like Nick looks at his axe at 11:50 ;)
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 keep up your good work, mate! Love your content!
i just have a leather coller on my small Forrest axe
Mega Nick
I think a piece of strong laced leather looks far more superior!
Looks do matter!
What particular axe is that called?
Hi Nick I'm just starting out on the bushcraft trail. I've got a small axe but it has a metal handle with rubber on it is this ok I do keep it sharp
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 thanks for the heads up
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 hi Nick just bought a silver line wooden shaft axe just need to sharpen it .I'm working to a budget but the reviews look good .thanks alot for your advice
Hi good great video, What was the cream you talked about call?
Many thanks
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look for vulcanizing tape
I double lace boots with paracord so no such thing as old laces :-p
Sniper tape = gaffer's tape
cant beat raw linsseed oil on a axe shaft or a rifle or a wooden knife handle. One of my most used axes is now been used for allmost 30 years and dont have even a nick in the shaft. Dont like a thick layer of protection near the head. Ithinders the axe to be used in the right way,the hand slides upp there every time you swing it,that is how a axe is used. I have used axes for over 40 year and learned from my grandfather who was an old lumberjack here in Norway. And an axe edge should be a large convex edge,not flat and weak who also gets stuck the whole time. And the whole convex must be sharpend,not just the edge. To maintain the right shape,this is everything in a axe. And a file removes to much steel,it just eats upp your axe head to fast. And the axe should be very sharp,all the time. Nobody cuts alot of wood with a dull axe,it just tires you out and is not a safe thing to do.
Hi there I do like your video’s but please don’t allow your little one that close to the axe without the cover on it takes only one second and could go horribly wrong I have seen many of kids with horrific injuries due to this mistake when parents say it won’t happen to us that’s when it is likely to go wrong all the best and stay safe
A samurai sword is not sharper than a European sword,just for info