new axe handle

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as you may have read when i joined this site i bought myself a gransfor kubben hatchet,i have got on well with it but recently have found a problem with the length of it or should i say lack off.
i am repeatley bashing my knuckles while faceing of for a bowl etc and the lack of swing can make it tireing on the arm so with it being the wildlife head i thought i would put the original handle on.
i have found original handles for sale for £7.50..cheap as chips but thought i should try making one,i have fitted plenty of heads but never made a handle from scratch and when you think about it its an essential skill to have when you have no way of buying one.
i toyed with what wood to used and rememberd i had a bit of pitch pine sat in the shed,this seemed ideal to me as its stable,straight grained and immensley strong though tough to work with a knife.
it took me a couple of hours especially the head end just getting a nice tight fit,i left a quarter inch protruding which i batoned a knife cut into followed by a beech wedge.
i have also purposley canted the head slightly to the left hopefully making it a better hewing axe for a right hander (me).
if it doesent work out its no hardship to re-do it or even fit a shop bought one but up to now it feels great in the hand,well balanced in all the right places..i will give it a go tonight on a piece of ash..any comments positive or negative will be most welcome...atb kev

[FishyFolk]

Looks right :-)
If it also feels right, then it's probably right :-)

Well done :-)

[-Tim-]

Looks right :-)
If it also feels right, then it's probably right :-)

Well done :-)

Agreed

Well done

Cheers
Tim

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so far so good then,cheers chaps,it feels right in the hand,offsetting the head is something i thought might work..just a bit of fine tuning so to speak,obviously you wouldent do it to a felling or splitting axe,a bit of feedback on that part of it would be great...atb kev

[ian c]

I like it, I still have a old axe head that needs a handle and at moment I have a piece of ash drying that I will use to make it.

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i was going to use ash but to be honest i dident have anything suitable to handall i have in ash is old and knotty....atb kev

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just gave it a go in the shed,works a treat,a lot easier to work than the shorter version,not knocking the kubben its just that it has its limitations...atb kev

[rawfish111]

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[Paracordist]

Impressive