Kindling hachet handle

cool. its always best to give wood another life! thanks for the post.

The handle looks good to me!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Nice job, Chuck. A lot of tools with a broken handle would probably have been discarded but you gave this one a new lease on life and equipped it with a handle that is sturdier than its original one.

Great job.

Thanks for the post.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

Boy, You’re right there Scott! I see all kinds of good tools that people throw away. A handle like this is easy to make. Cleaning rust and other things from the head are easy too. I got this a few years back but decided it needed another handle the other day. I copied the other one I made for it when I first found it. The one I made before was actuaully a little beefier, but not as nice a job.
Oh yeah, this is something you could make the next time you are sitting by the campfire.

-- --Chuck

Hello Chuck;
—-yes, I also save and collect old//new, actually all the htchets and axes I come across.

Now as to your woodworking skills here…..great! Maybe you are a ‘woodworking handler’ at making handles for axes and such.

Do you ever come across any broadaxes over their on the west coast?

Thanks for sharing….
GODSPEED,
Frank

-- --frank, NH, http://frank.wordpress.com/

Chuck way to give life to an older tool. The handle looks great.

-- Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com

Thanks guys, I don’t see too many broadaxes , let alone anyone who wants to give them away. I’ll take one if someone wants to give me one. I let an older Granfors – bruks double bit splitting axe slip through my hands a while back, the guy only wanted $20 for it! I won’t let that happen again…
I might do a blog when I get time on making handles. They are a piece of cake to make the way I do them. You can do most of the work on the bandsaw for rough shaping. the rest can be done with a spindle sander or a drill press and a sanding drum. Another alternative is a belt sander turned upside down in a vice. More on that later.

-- --Chuck