Here ya go Mate working on the handle before sending out the head this coming week for a reprofile and sharpening from a buddy of mine.
http://www.naturalbushcraft.co.uk/fo...-birch-spatula
“I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.” ~Frank Sinatra~
" Nessmuk " says:
" We do not go to the woods to rough it ; we go to
smooth it — we get it rough enough in town. But
let us live the simple, natural life in the woods, and
Thanks for this really helpful thread, Ashley. The handle gave out on my trapper's axe, so today I finally got round to cutting down a good
straight ash from which I split out a piece of a quarter-section for my new handle.Just gotta shape it and fit it now, but I have one question...
where you drove the two oak wedges at top, I assume you first sawed a kerf in the top of the handle to accept them?
Thanks,
Jack.