Awesome video, thank you! I have just gotten into customizing axes within the last year and have only been using BLO. I'm now going to give some of these other options a try!
Great video, fancy seeing you here. Nice to see you’re on board with HB, I can really see your axe expertise benefitting the company... not that they really need it, but regardless, it seems like the perfect match. Thanks for the info y’all, looking forward to future vids.
Nice video , next time somebody asks what to put on their handle i'll post this video in the comments :) i just use raw linseed oil as blo is hard to come by in france and expensive. Takes time to cure though.
Great video. We follow you on Instagram and really enjoy your axe science. I've always enjoyed tung and danish oil, but the pine tar looks pretty compelling. I'll have to give that a go after seeings it's effects here.
Thanks, Lane! These are great ideas. I bought my son a Bjork Splitting Axe to use when we split wood. We like our Bjork very much and used BLO on it already. Can we switch to something like Pine Tar to give it a different look, or should we stick with BTO?
You can switch and put pine tar on top of BLO. It's stickier, and takes a while to dry, but when it does, it's just such a classic look and the dirtier it gets, the SWEETER it looks (IMHO) Skal! 👍
There is a big difference though in the breaking of heartwood vs sapwood, sap wood breaks less easily than heartwood since the increased amount of fibers keep it together if cracked.
@@samhansen9771 i never said anything about strength lol nice try. I said the way they break, which everyone who actually uses axes knows is very different. Sap wood breaks apart less easily than hart wood, thats a fact. Both work but theres a difference.
@@samhansen9771 its fairly straightforward tbh, sapwood is the more sinewy part of the tree so it has more fibers in it to prevent snapping and help it flex a little more. Hartwood is a bit more dry and older so its lighter at the cost of snapping apart more easily since theres not much sinew to hang onto. Sap wood will break and weighs more but at least it has flex and difficulty separating.
@@lordmark4966 I assume you meant sapwood weighs less, not more. Also, as far as I can see, you just described strength. How is it being harder to break different from being stronger? It sounds like you are conflating a low modulus of elasticity with a high modulus of rupture.
There IS a difference in strength from heartwood vs second growth. Science proves this. I cannot continue to watch your videos after hearing this because I can no longer trust what you are saying.
