Gransfors Bruks and Colonial Bushcraft Axes

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hey its mission a decent bottle similar talking about acts and maintenance with the axes back project stay tuned alright this is my collection of axes this was the first grandpa's brux that I got I have three of them here this is small forest axe and it has hardwood handle great axe about 19 inches this was my main acts for for a long time this small four stacks is actually my wife's and it's made out of sapwood Hickory really like grandpa's axis they just you know really really top quality give this one the sec all right so yeah this one's pretty interesting the handle started out with look I mean it was like identical to my my small four stacks it was identical the only difference is that it was an inch longer so it's 20 inches on 19 and the handle didn't have the strong Coerver here it had this exact same shape in every way except it just continued straight so just didn't have that extra section right here so it look just like this and it didn't have a whole so straight I don't have a handle anymore i'm not sure where it is i'm kind of bumming that I don't hide it right now to show you guys but look just like that one yeah the sex I just you know knocked out a handle real quick with my knife this is a sugar maple and this is actually the third handling meat for the sacks I made handles that look very similar to the Brock sacks I found them always are we splitting right here eventually didn't help that i was using greenwood you know you never use cream want to make handles but i just busting him out because the handle when i bought the ax handle was broken so i want to use it you know like that day so i just really just started busting handles like a madman so you know this is a quickie handle as well it's not centered very well and it was Green so kind of like twisted on me and all that stuff so it's not perfect at all so eventually i'll make a really nice one anyways so yeah this set is pretty crazy it's really really old I don't know who makes it in fact the guy who kind of started this whole you know the axis back project Skog myth he knows a lot about axes so I'm very interested in what he thinks the sax could possibly be what model because you know it does have a pole so I know that can help date it you know it's pretty aggressive too I mean it's pretty monstrous weighs like 3 pounds to do this thing absolutely destroys trees great axe great axe obviously it's handmade you can easily tell that's handmade made by Smith really really old ax again I just wish I knew who made it but there's no markings at all of a maker none I thing is just ancient and I thought it's really cool when I saw if I could tell obviously it was handmade and you know in the Northeast we do about a ton of a ton of antique dealers just a little you know villages and little towns and stuff and they they always seem to have you know you know old old carbon steel tools I mean boxes of them you know Oh like you know ship wooden boxes just filled to the brim with old accents and someone who stole the handles on so you know it's really a really prevalent out here you can find a lot of old access but it's hard to find out who made them where they came from I've only done too much research on this so I really can even venture a guess but I know it does have a pole so that helps all right something else get to this one alright so this axe is a little different it's not on the main line for our grandpa's Brock's this is the wilderness acts by Brooks and it's 24 inches I should get that frame for you it's 24 inches and it's actually a signature a signature acts it was designed by Ray Mears and he wanted an axe that you know was closer to the small forest ax instead of the Scandinavian which is the next size up but he wanted to happy you know closer to a small forest but be kind of in between the two so a beefier head then a small for statics but not quite the same as the Scandinavian so it kind of made it in between X and it's a phenomenal accident I probably got it about three weeks a month ago something like that and I'm just absolutely tooled through a bunch of trees with this thing sleeping out and you know in the 30s and I have you know process big fire would you know like like that cutthroat no issue at all so I put some quarter I rock some cord around the handle up here because you know what's going into my angles on some of the big logs I skimmed a few times the the wood on the angle so you know like you make like the 45s the wedge and I really didn't like that so I want I wanted to protect it so I put some power cord around it real tight I just wrapped it inside it no big deal give it a little cushion okay so it's a thing about both lisac slow this axe is actually handmade now I know the other Brooks axes are handmade but they're not you know hammer anvil handmade not not the old way there hydraulically like hydraulic pressed so the forging is different this is actually made the old way and the person who got the honors to do that it is LP now I believe his name is lamont peterson now I don't claim to know the history of Brooks or the employees or anything like you know when I go through my ex book that comes with the ax and they're all the same you know i have three of these books are all the same it seems that every time they show like somebody working and they show axes it's lennar Peterson so I mean I don't know if he's like you know the master craftsman there or the guy that's been to the longest what the deal is but that's the guy that made my axe which is pretty cool and you know when he flipped through the book and see examples so if this is our hundreds acts this is our carpenters acts you know if when you look at the person who actually made the axe for that photo both of them pretty consistently it's always him so again I don't know you know the deal with him these are all his as well LP but apparently he's uh he's pretty prevalent over there and i gotta say he made hell of an axe I mean this thing is just a monster so this is my new wax and I'm really digging it and so far it's done everything I need it to and I split with it I've cut down into very small kindling and I've taken down huge logs so so this is my collection of axis okay so two small forest axis one with a heart would handle one with the sapwood handle this is my wife's this is my bulldozer sacks which has both has hardwood and a little hard wood on the tip is pretty cool sapling for the rest and this is a really old ax head and I really have no information on it on the fact that doesn't a pole and it was handmade the old way and handle I his busted out it's just I made it robust so wouldn't it wouldn't break it's like a big paddle most and it's made out of sugar maple the sugar maple is really strong has a very strong PSI before brace okay so there's my axis alright so i keep my gear maintained and oiled up rust-free i use food grade oil I just keep this little container my rock it's usually flax oil or linseed oil canola oil or all of a something food grade that way it's multi-purpose and also if I'm you know cleaning game and I don't have a petroleum product getting into my food yeah and I just keep a rag with it under sink on an old guitar egg so goes a long way alright so with winter approaching us the air is a lot drier that was so I always like to make sure that my kit is well oiled up to combat the dryness that comes in you know the Northeast gets really dry when to start sitting so I want to make sure that i'm getting surface cracks which can turn into problems later on on my handles my tools especially my axes you know using a mountain of cold and you know they're they're dealing with a lot of stress you know a lot of a lot of shocks when they're hitting hitting you know the firewood so I always do my handles now to see dad says well as well rather enjoy us it's nice you know spend a little time with your tools and y'all just beat the crap out of them but taking care of them you know they take care of you at least you can do this do the same

pretty much all there is to it now actually I already did this leather maybe like two weeks ago and it's plenty supple time try it out at all so it doesn't need to be go alright so I've got hold of max nothing I like to do is just to create friction heat up the oil it's really hot helps to helps to penetrate the wood and just kind of polish it on there you know how to choose my hand to do I'll take the second and you guys you see it was a nice shine on the wood after all right let's go mission you this allow this is my collection of axes and the maintenance right through that I put them through once winter stars rolling around well appreciate your views there are columns nice pour cela next one take care