Have you guys seen the CEO for Wetterlings' Axe Forge?

When I think of grinding an axe I recall this mental image of my Grandfather sitting at a grinding wheel that he powered with his feet while applying the axe to the wheel.

This picture of grinding an axe is about as different from that as any picture could be.

-- Rich, Cedar Rapids, IA - I'm a woodworker. I don't create beauty, I reveal it.

Where’s Norm when you need him? No Safety glasses?

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

Doesn’t every woman have an axe to grind? :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

That’s what every man needs; a wench with wrench.

God I’m old, she looks like a teenager!

-- 'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners' ~George Carlin

That grinding wheel doesn’t look like it’s spinning?

-- Charles from California

maybe that’s why she isn’t wearing safety glasses ;)

-- “Don’t tell me what can’t be done, tell me what you want done then shut up and get out of my way and let me do it!”

Ok gang enough cutting comments :)

-- http://artisticwoodstudio.com Custom furniture

I just figured out that the seat she is sitting on is actually a clamp to keep pressure on the blade as the grinder surfaces the iron.
She can control the pressure by raising or lowering her weight on the seat.

Ingenious!

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Reminds me of a woodcarver I ran across in Wood magazine a few years ago, Amber Jean

-- http://mvflaim.wordpress.com/

“It makes me wonder why these girls are never part of woodworking forums.”

Because they are not old men.

-- http://mvflaim.wordpress.com/

jeez

not another hill

i’m still stuck
on the last one

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

I’ll talk to you guys later….I gotta go see a chick about an axe.

-- If at first you don't succeed then maybe skydiving isn't for you.

Check this shot out :
You can see the “C” arm of the clamp/hold down running off the seat affair.
Rather ingenius!

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

haha i’m really surprised with all the drama lately on Lumberjocks that no one has complained or has been offended by this?! maybe they are finally starting to see the lighter side, and lightening up!

that being said – that girl is smoking. i wish i was that jig..i mean had that jig (too far?) :)

-- Hey you dang woodchucks, quit chucking my wood!!!!