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The weight of the head is g and the total weight around g 1lb 11oz , handle length is This is a great mid-weight carving axe that most people will use easily without getting tired, yet still heavy enough to remove wood quickly. A sharp axe will only stay sharp if the edge is protected, we offer a great leather sheath for the job.
This axe changes things. The axe heads are drop forged abroad then ground by Brian Alcock , the last professional grinder in Sheffield, before being honed to a fine edge in our own workshop in Sheffield. We have the hickory axe handles made in the UK to our design.
They have a knurled finish for grip and are treated with linseed oil. They also make a great axe for kindling splitting, bushcraft or camp use. The weight of the head is g and the total weight around g 1lb 9oz , handle length is This is a good mid-weight carving axe that most people will use easily without getting tired, yet still heavy enough to remove wood quickly.
The carving axes come sharp and ready to use but eventually you will need to sharpen it yourself. This video shows the method we use. This video shows the axe compared to two commonly used axes by Gransfors Bruks and also shows it in use carving a spoon blank. NB we have slightly changed the handle design since this film was made. The axes have proved extremely popular with many folk preferring them to much more expensive axes, have a look at some of the comments below.
Sheath not included — buy the axe from this page to get the sheath at a discounted price. Nigel Bracken 13th March Freek van der Wijst 27th January This axe and small business jumped out immediately. What a great and razor sharp axe. Nice light weight and easy to handle. I love the sheath too. Fast delivery and properly packed. The axe came with a little booklet about the business, the people and the history. A nice extra. I definitely recommend this axe and business and will come back future purchases.
Thanks a lot. Daniel S 26th January No frills carving axe. Arrived shaving sharp literally , nice weight for carving, finished to a decent standard. Excellent product. Jamie BartlettBundy 23rd January Very nice.
A huge improvement over my scandi hatchets. The handle is sized for a comfortable grip near the hand and the balance is superb. Leonard Slattery 20th November I bought the small carving axe and open and compound spoon knives. Bowls made using a pole lathe have a very distinctive character with the marks of the tools being clearly visible, like hand thrown pottery or blown glass.
I make a variety of tableware pieces, such as porringers a shallow bowl with handles ideal for soup, cereals etc , olive bowls, breakfast bowls, general eating bowls, nesting bowls, mazers and quaiches types of drinking vessels , star bowls decorative bowls and dinner plates; all different styles replicating different eras, and of course, individual pieces for commissions and general one-offs.
So you can see, a lot of different pieces each requiring different techniques. The blank is then mounted on a spiked mandrel with a sharp tap of the hammer and then centred very carefully between the metal spikes of the poppits on the lathe.
Once accurately centred, the string is wrapped twice around the mandrel, and its now ready for turning. The bowl is then ready for shaping.
Often I can make a third from inside the second, and this is how I make my nesting bowls. Once the core is snapped out, the very bottom of the bowl is smoothed using a specially designed hand-forged curved knife from Sweden.
Once the turning process is complete, and because I use green wood, the bowls are left to dry for around 3 — 6 weeks, depending on the weather, the type of wood, and how green the wood is. They are then finished with natural vegetable oil which is applied hot, I use a deep fat fryer for this, so it penetrates and seals the wood. Once the bowls have been used, they can be washed in hot soapy water and, if desired, occasionally re-oiled using a little sunflower or walnut oil.
My timber is sourced as locally as possible; although Edale is not particularly a wooded region, so much of it comes from a tree surgeon about 20 miles away. I use only English hardwoods; mostly sycamore, beech and alder, although historically elm was a very popular material to use as well, and so too field maple. Many other species have been used including in bowl making including box, willow, horse chestnut, poplar, oak, ash, cherry, hornbeam and apple.
Yew has occasionally used in the past to make vessels, but because of the toxins associated with yew, I only use it for making tool handles and furniture. George Lailey only used elm for his bowls. Whilst not exactly a traditional tool, the chainsaw is very efficient, and in any case the marks they make are entirely turned away and make no difference to the finished piece. Traditional turners in the past used the same time to prepare a blank as it did to turn a bowl; whereas I can cut four blanks using a chainsaw in the time it takes to axe one blank.
Bowl blanks will dry out and crack if they are left out for more than a week or two. I find it best to cut the blanks and then slow the drying by burying them in damp shavings or keeping them in a plastic sack. I make the tools from lengths of iron bar from nearby Sheffield, once world famous for its iron and steelmaking.
I feel they are very much like part of a living tree. Eating from wood enriches your life. Wooden bowls are also ideal for eating porridge and soup as heat is retained in the food but insulated from your hands. Wooden bowls mix very well amongst stoneware, ceramics and glassware.
I make about a thousand pieces a year and my main clients are historical enactment societies, museums and film-makers, although there is increased demand from people who just like eating off wood. I am often asked to make wooden replicas of ancient artefacts for re-enactors and museums from archaeological drawings or originals, which is exacting work as I have get the weight, feel of the tool-marked finish, and slightly oval shape, caused by shrinkage during drying, just right.
I have replicated a wooden ladle from diagrams from the Mary Rose and an Iron Age bowl from Glastonbury. How much of a difference has investing in an ecommerce store and being a regular blogger contributed to your business, and what do you recommend for others who have yet to embrace technology?
A website is a brilliant vehicle for telling a story. The blog is a great way to connect to other craftspeople around the world. A Japanese woodworker contacted me a few years ago after reading my blog, and through our correspondence he has built himself a pole lathe and now teaches people in Japan to make bowls.
Eighteen months ago, a Swedish blogger contacted me and invited me over to Sweden to work on a replica Oseberg [Viking] ship being made there, which was one of the most significant woodworking projects in Europe in the past five years, and I got to spend a week working as part of the team, which was really exciting. In my opinion, in this day and age, no business can survive without a basic website at the very least.
Web 2. I work in an 18th-century stable in Edale, Derbyshire, which is owned by the National Trust. I have rented it as my workshop since I like to work with the doors open, so there is a feeling of being inside yet outside at the same time. How did your relationship develop with the National Trust from once being employed by them as a forester, to then renting space off them for a workshop, and in your experience how supportive are they of heritage crafts?
Can you provide any advice for anyone wanting to take up a craft similar to yours, or traditional crafts in general? I do provide a lot of advice on my blog, such as how to get started, getting an apprenticeship, how to price for work etc, so that would be a good place to look for advice.
Once inspired, they tend to go away and read all the books on the subject, digest everything relevant from the internet, and in their spare time in the evenings and on the weekends, they practice relentlessly. If young or financial secure, they tend to go and volunteer with someone else to gain more experience.
For those older, or less financial secure, they tend to take the plunge after a few years. They say that in crafts, it takes 10, hours to reach proficiency level, which is about 3 years full time, or many, many years doing it part-time in the evenings.
Other pieces of advice would be to immerse yourself in the craft, and learn new skills, and new ways of doing things. Also, apart from the obvious point about needing to put the necessary hours in to achieve monetary reward, you need to focus on being the best, and consistently producing high quality work, and exploring ways of making it even better.
There is clearly a place for mass-produced items in society, such as mobile phones and computers, but why do you believe hand-crafted items are so special and what value should we place on them?
They are produced in a forge; however they are partially made from the use of a power hammer. In one sense they are mass-produced, but they are also mass-produced with skill. With the use of intermediate technology, say that used by the Victorians, technology such as power hammers were introduced to speed up production. This removed some of the time spending hand forging, but not altogether and the skills were still required, and furthermore the machines also required an incredible amount of skill to be used properly.
Work that is enjoyable and meaningful. Once you remove skill from the work, then there is no pride, or meaning, just drudgery. As consumers we can choose how we wish the people who make the products we buy live. As an example, I run an event called Spoonfes t, which is where a lot of people gather in a field with the common interest in carving wooden spoons. I needed to buy Spoonfest printed T-shirts.
It can also be fun and interesting, as you can learn how things that you are buy are made. What goals do you still have left to achieve? At the moment, the Government is only really interested in supporting contemporary crafts, those craftspeople searching for completely new ways of doing things. I have a spoon carving book in the pipeline, which is at draft stage, and has been for several years.
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