Forging a wrapped eye axe from railroad scrap 

Welding in a hardened edge and creating custom axe bits🤯 mind blown. You're one in a million. Watched this with my dad and he teared up because you reminded him of his father. Great video

Finally was able to get out to the forge and use the hammer I bought from you. Outstanding John absolutely love that hammer! Anyone thinking about buying one should.

I had no idea that railroad clips were medium/high carbon steel! I have a whole bunch from my great uncle!

What I find most interesting, following a few blacksmithing channels, is that no two blacksmiths use the same hammer. Different shapes, sizes, weights, handle styles. The hammer is a very personal tool to the blacksmith. It's a fun little detail.

Your work shop is looking cleaner than usual

Looks great.

Awesome job! Nothing more satisfying than making something with your own two hands..

Today tested my ribbon burner that I copied your build as best I could. I tried to forge weld today an old hand ax much as your tommy hawk and jpl service Inc and remember you had also learned from her , But get back to my forge weld the first try I retry my Tommy Hawk and my first ever forge weld I ground it to check out and look welded tomorrow I'll test it with chisel and heavy hammer but looks welded. I do believe my rebuild of the burner is hotter and a fast yellow heat is the difference Thanks,John

Hahaha Bonus CAT footage at the end!!!!! Classic!

Good job 👍👍love the puddly tat!

For the first one you did a really terrific job.

Thanks for helping me on the rebuilding of my ribbon burner head , Mine new one looks like your so I have high hopes for being forging at end of the week Agree about John Switzer as a go to Blacksmith information man,A great teacher he is , love his safety notes. Sir I thank you again for helping.

Кот на поводке))) оригенально конечно))). А тапорик классный получился

Great work, if I didn’t watch this vid and saw the axe i would never have guess it was wrapped and forged welded. I have to try this eventually

dont want perfect LOOKS WONDERFUL and I would be proud to own that ax

Great job on that axe it's just a great tool

I'll also give John Switzer name as to my favorite teacher,How many times has his safety advice save us from accidents ? Sir he does ask everyone to wear safety glasses. I tried and fail but will retry.. Thanks for teaching Sir

The shape of the head is close to perfect. The axe looks really cool. It will makes a nice carving axe. Great video.

In all seriousness, though you have a real talent and I like how your videos are straight to the point much appreciated content. Thanks John.

That was great to watch mate 👍👍

Nice work .... and it looks like a good setup.. I was thinking to myself, "wear your safety glasses !!!!" I believe John would agree with me

GREAT JOB BUDDY 👍

Muy buen trabajo te felicito desde España

You sir, got the perfect mix in speed and explanation in your videos. It make it real educational to watch!

Awesome work as always man! I moved to Parks 50 recently too... really happy I did.

great job inspires me

Great work

excellent workmanship 👍

Nice video !👍🇬🇧greetings from England

I like it, thanks from Canada

Nice work.

When you said "spread the cheeks", I giggled.

Beautiful work. And it's the imperfections that make it perfect.

It’s nice to see you back on RU-vid, John. Great job on the axe!!

That turned out great! Love the shape of the handle to!

Awesome job John. Like the way you laid it out and pre notched the steel to find it after in forge. God Bless and thanks.

Very cool Jon! I really appreciate how you explain and walk through the process as you are forging your work.

I have watched John at black bear forge make this axe and he is a true master blacksmith . And I'm sure he would be proud to see how good your First axe turned out. so thank you for sharing .

That's brilliant

That looks amazing. Well done.

The 2 johns. My favorites. Great work it's beautiful

Awesome that axe

Great job mate 👍

Turned out to be a very nice piece of equipment, nice work bud

Looks great

Saweet totally awesome

Awesome...the imperfections are what make it perfect

Nice job!!!

Great job

That's awesome .

Incredible first effort. Well done. One swell looking axe.

LOVE IT!! Ur work and videos are absolutely amazing!!

That is a great looking ax! Awesome first run for sure.

Very nice. We were discussing RR clip steel this morning during a live feed. Really cool to see you make something from one this evening.

Great video once I get some more experience I am definitely going to try this out.

Fantastic as usual John!

That looks perfect !

Gorgeous, so very well done 😍 that profile and the hang is just mwah

I always enjoy a good axe video, and one made of just railroad scrap is a cool concept.

Awesome! Nutt’in to it really! Thanks for sharing and God Bless you John!

That thing looks great!

Awesome work, always enjoy your videos. Thanks for sharing

i never get tired of axe forging.

Hey John! Its great seeing new videos from you! And the axe looks pretty good, great job man!

Great job! I’ve been meaning to do one of those!

Nice work! I think it came out really well.

Great video and the style of your handle I love. Thanks

Crushing it man! Love it!

Nice work

Very nice ax, John! Great video!

WELL DONE 👍🏼 DEFINITELY ON MY HIT LIST!!!

Awesome Job!

That came out looking great and it does the job keep up the awesome videos

Awsome job again

Great video... love the Hoops hammer

For your first axe of any kind that looks really good!

Amazing video brother. And a beautiful axe as well.

Wow, everyone else is using high tech smithing tools, and this guy is still showing ‘em up. Way to keep it real, I’m amazed by your work👍

Great job!

Awsome ax great work, great video.

As always you did a great job, even showing failures and imperfections are part of the job, great. 👍⚒️💪 Too bad shipping overseas is impractical/expensive.. keep it up!

Looks nice and performs well.

I'm shocked that this is your first wrapped. Awesome work as usual

Looks really good man thanx for the vid

Beautiful axe John!

This is a really great video. Thanks

Nice God Bless You enjoyed the ved

My son liked the bonus footage.

Nice job!

That’s a really nice axe!

Good morning man, greetings from Vermont. Video unrelated, I just wanted to say thanks for the videos. I got messed up in September and haven't been in my shop since. These videos you guys are making are really helping me to not lose my mind. Keep up the great work, you are really making some nice blades.

I hope my first wrapped eye turns out half as good. Nice job dude it looks great!

Great job I really like it.

I've got all kinds of railroad scrap. Spikes, plates, rail, clips, pretty much everything.

Love it mate 🤟🏻

beautiful axe! one of the best ive seen. Tryna get into forging my self one day ill be able to make something this nice :)

Wow, nice work. Never knew how an axe was made by hand. Now I do. RU-vid - the Saturday-morning-cartoons for adults.

Super schönes Werkzeug geworden Glückwunsch weiter so und liebe grüße aus Deutschland

Good job my freind

Really great job with this build! You have my sub my dude