I've watched all your videos at least once and keep coming back to watch this one. Your version of the Hjärtum axe is just perfect in every way. Its the perfect carpenter's axe IMO. Ive been making a pattern i drew up a few years ago and i like to think of it as the perfect carpenter's axe and an all around great axe for any task. I would love to share some pictures with you and get your thoughts on it and maybe, just maybe you'll like it enough to make a video of you making one. I have a feeling you will LOVE it. If you want some pictures of it respond bace to this comment and we can talk. So far I've forged around 30 axes and hatchets with my pattern and they keep getting nicer and more attractive. I just recently finished a canister damascus one with 80crv2 edge forge welded in. Its a dandy!
Greetings from France Nils! I have watched almost all your videos and I am very inspired by your work. With all due respect (as I am not a blacksmith myself) you seem to have made a lot of progress in your technique and mastery and it shows compared to your first videos and projects, this axe is stunning!
3 года назад
Thanks, progression is a good thing. I would be very sad if it wouldnt showbthrough the years :)
Really nice looking axe, very well made and such a professionally made video, top job 👍. Hope you and your young family are doing well, regards from Down Under.
3 года назад
Thank you very much! The family is doing great(a bit tired( :)
That SS2092 has a hardness of 60HRC, I believe? Your craftsmanship really is excellent. Alas I'd have bought a Hjärtum style axe from you, but I already have one. It has hardly needed to be sharpened. I bought it several years ago by the excellent blacksmith Nev Morris in North Wales. For your interest he has a website and also is in Wikipedia. Thank you so much for this demonstration video of your skill. Best, Wendi 🌻
Год назад
Yes it has around 1% carbon which it quite a high amount. especially for an axe.
absolutely fantastic axe. Few people can produce axes this fine, elegant and well built. Keep up the good work. One thing I've noticed from making hammers; if you don't hammer the wedge in; but press it in, the handle stays secured without loosening for a longer period of time. P.S. having that "lug" on the back; I would understand it on the front to protect the handle; but whats the reason to put it on the back? It's also seen in certain ancient viking axes, never understood why.
Sir may i say that it is one of the most beautiful axes that i have seen nice video But show a bit more of your work place and explaine a bit more who you are, that interest us also..... Your axe is in my top 10 and I'm glad that it is something that you made that nobody else has made in a long time ......why they did stop making that is a question for me...and actually i don't understand.....keep going that good work. And Odin and Freya be by your side One new fan of you Oli. Greetings from Belgium
Hey I have 3 of these style of axes, (original vintage ones) I'm looking for the best haft, I had put a store bought 28'' haft but it ended up breaking and I would like to make something more traditional like you have, is there a way I can get a few measurements? - Cheers from Quebec, Canada!
3 года назад
Sure, this is actually a habdle I designed and made about 100 of. Still have the master so more can be made. Send me an email and I can help you out :)
They strike me as having alot in comon with norwegian axes, did Johan Jonson do his apprenticeship in Norway?
3 года назад
Actually from what Ive read he went ro Norway before miving to Hjärtum. That might be the reason. Here In Värmland the typicsl Norweigian style is very common. However Värmland and Norway is very close and many people cross the border for work and marriage.
@ I would also LOVE to see you make a racing style axe around 4.5-5.5 pounds or 2kg. I'm currently working on forging a tasmanian pattern axe right now. 1045 body with 80crv2 inlay for my edge steel. Takes a long time to forge out that big of a billet without a press or power hammer.
I wonder how they forged the first ever hammer used for forging...
2 года назад
There is a guy from Sweden who has done research on the topic, using stone tools to carefully make a iron hammer etc. He used a stone as an anvil also.
Jag önskar att jag hade en massa pengar att ösa över skickliga smeder, så jag får en fin samling, och ni får en positiv spiral så ni kan köpa utrustning och gå plus ekonomiskt. Som det är nu får jag nöja mig med Gränsfors Bruks yxor som jag köpte varje gång jag passerade, men som nu har co-rona-stängt!
3 года назад
Gränsfors går aldelles utmärkt att nöja sig med :)
