How To Handle An Axe - part 2 

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You should know, there's viewers out here that appreciate your tool collection greatly. I very much respect your efforts to hand this knowledge down. Fewer and fewer of us have these skill sets now and sharing that is something valuable. Thank you for your service.

That was the most satisfying handleling of an axe, ever.

You're one of the best teachers there is man! I've commented on other wood workers pages and they are super rude and expect me to know everything. I appreciate the time and effort you put into your videos to show us youngsters and inexperienced people how to do the job traditionally and correctly. Thank you.

If you study the three pins on the metal wedge, you can see that they are chisel ground alternating ways! They will bend out into the wood when you pound it in! I love them! Have used a lot of them here in Norway :)

It is most gratifying to watch a man who appreciates and cares properly for good quality tools. 🤠

I really appreciate your level of craftsmanship and knowledge. I followed my grandpa around in his shop and learned as much as I could from him but he was a very quiet man. You’ve got a great knack for explaining the small details. Thanks!

This is without a doubt one of the most informative and enjoyable videos I’ve ever watched. It is brilliant on every level and is worthy of an award! To paraphrase “If I can replicate this with my log splitter - I’ll be barking like six puppies!” If only everyone took so much interest and pride in their work. Thank you!

Probably just one more hit.... 20 to 30 more hits later: maybe just one, two more hits...

Sittingin front of the fireplace, watching a Wranglerstar video. My day just turned into a nice day!!

Hi Cody, I started watching your videos to learn to hang an axe. In particular, the Small Forest Axe. I have to say that my experience putting on the new handle was exactly the same. It came perfect from the factory, no adjustments needed. Gransfors Burks is an excellent company. I have had my Small Forest Axe going on 10 years and almost never go in to the woods without it. On a different note I wanted to thank you for the hard work you put into your channel. Wranglerstar is the first channel I have subscribed too and now commented on. I find the content truly inspiring. Thanks, Matt

I got my first Gransfors axe yesterday, a Scandinavian Forest. Thanks to your videos, I'm confident that I'll be able to care for it well. So sad to see the old handle on your Small Forest go, but I hope that this new one lasts just as long. Thank you, Cody!

These axe videos never get old!

It Lasted 12 years without needing a new handle, wow now thats quality

WranglerStar, Thank you very much for these two videos. I know you have previously done videos on putting on new handles, but I learn something new every time. When I was much younger my father was stationed in Japan and we had a folding saw much like the smaller one you have and you are so right, those things are incredible. We had it for years and took it out when we went camping with the Boy Scouts (back when they were still Scouts and teaching useful skills). It never failed us. He may still have it.

I just put a new handle on my splitting maul using your techniques in this video...worked great and I am very happy with the results! Thanks for these instructional videos. Mike

Thanks for the wealth of knowledge you are so kindly sharing! I have only found your channel this month and have already absorbed an enormous amount of useful information! I recently received my first quality swedish hatchet and have already applied your sharpening tips and handle preparation tips to remove any factory inconsistencies (which were almost non-existent in this case thankfully) and about to begin oiling to preserve the handle for a lifetime of work. Your videos are almost like a form of meditation! Very calm and my mind is expanded at the end of each one :) Thank you

I used your technique to handle a small hatchet I found. It worked great! I feel like a true homesteaders. Thanks for making this video series!

Thank you. These 2 videos have been very enlightening, 51yrs old and I have gained a great deal from you.

I'm so glad that I stumbled onto your channel. I'm a bit addicted to restoring old tools atm & enjoy building on my skills of using hand tools over power tools where I can. Find these sorts of videos very satisfying & therapeutic. Greetings from Australia 👍

Love the old adages of tried & true methods. I hope i never stop learning. Thank you

Hey Cody love your videos been subscribed for 4 years. Just wanna say I find your videos almost meditating and just a real joy to watch! So thank you and keep it going

Thank you @Wranglerstar for the meaningful, non clickbait title! I respect either way, but just letting you know you have subscribers that find this extremely refreshing!

I just want to thank you for sharing your vast knowledge of fixing things. You have really helped me out over the years. Thank you from David Hoover ,Chattanooga, TN.

Such a satisfying video to watch! Most people would've lost my attention in the first couple minutes. The way you explained everything and show your gratification along the way keeps things very interesting. Thanks for all the great content Cody!

Cody, This video came just in time for me. I am in the process of making handles to rehang all my great uncle's Stanley hatchets and Swedish axes. Always good to watch the job you do on tool handles. Thanks for sharing as always, Brad

I rent when you had your auntine axe broke. That was very surprising from such an expensive axe. Great video. I hope I don't have to replace the handle one granfors Burk axe anytime soon. But now I know what to do. Thanks

It is always a soothing time for me when I watch and listen to you working in your shop. Thank you for all the great info. I just rehung a Hults Bruks 2 1/4lbs head that I paid $2 for at a garage sale. I could not have done it with out your videos

Thanks for a very good axe lesson. It make me more safe when i am going to do that next time. Wish you and your family a nice week. Best wishes from Norway

I am always surprised how well that Pull Saw does.

I recently re-handled a Gransfors mini belt hatchet with the same results. The hatchet was only a few years old but the handle got loose. I purchased a replacement handle and it fit perfectly with no rasping or trimming necessary. The only difference with the mini is neither the factory handle nor the replacement handle had a metal wedge. Instead of BLO, I used a product called Swel-Lok. I did use linseed oil mixed with gum turpentine on the rest of the handle. This little hatchet doesn't get a lot of use, but so far it appears to be holding up well. Thanks for your videos!

Well your the very 1st to show how to draw the head onto the handle correctly. There is no other way to do this properly. I've been doing this way for well over 45 yrs. IT WORKS. Thanks for a great video.

You nailed it on how to handle an axe head. So many "experts" have no idea what they are talking about. IF you take the time to watch the REAL experts who make them from businesses that have been around for over 100+ years, they do what you did. Awesome demo.

Thanks for doing these videos I just finished re-handling my Dads beloved pick, couldn't have turned out any better.

What a work of art! Thank you for this beautiful video.

Oh Cody! Thank you,the wood shop looks so good & every time I see the Gransfors Bruk Axes....... Man, I really am impressed! I bought the Fiskars Hatchet & regret it every day!

Thanks for making this video. I have been doing it all wrong this whole time but, now I know the right way. It will come in handy when it's time to put a handle on the war hammer I'm forging. Great video my good man!

I'm gonna have to buy these axes. I'm in love. thanks again Cody for a great video

Cody,, thank you for another fine axe video and Gransfors Bruk is excellent!

Sir, I wanted to thank you for the help through your channel. Watching this and some of your other videos I have been able to successfully handle my own ax, using only hand tools.

Always happy to catch these videos, one of my favorite RU-vid channels👌🏼

Great vid again! I love watching you work with axes. I love my stihl chainsaw but there is something about an axe that is truly enjoyable .

You videos are great, very relaxing, they are like ASMR and I have to watch them twice because I listened to the story in the background and didn't watch your labor.

Cody, your videos are consistently fantastic. Thank you.

I have seen most, if not all of your axe videos. Still get excited when I see you have posted a new one!

Dang man you set that axe so magnificently not a single crack in the wood made me smile like perfect skill level achieved !!!

Thanks so much for showing me how to properly do this job. I've hung 3 handles this year on axes that might have just gone to waste. It's a great feeling to restore a tool back to a working condition.

Excellent video. I have learned so much since you started the make over on your shop. Thank you.

I have learned so much from your channel, thank you so much. God bless

thank you for changing the approach to the titles for this series. It has the benefit of creating a resource with ease of future reference.

This is incredible how well it fits. Just awesome.

@wranglerstar, your video inspired me to purchase my first Gransfors Bruk hand axe. Hope to use it for many years and pass it down.

Wonderfully done... I almost look forward to putting a new handle on mine in hopefully a decade or so!

Very knowledgeable and enjoyable video thank you for all the work you put into your channel had a blessed day.

Your videos are very relaxing and soothing

I love your axe videos but I especially love when you put a new handle on. Thank you much.

Excellent video and content, and a thumbs up for the descriptive and appropriate title! Good work!

That's a nice ax, I like you was surprised at how well the handle fitted your head. It speaks of how consistent they are with their forge work. Dad was an old school Shipwright so much of the cutting was done with handsaws. I was helping him one day at the boat and he needed to do some cutting and trimming of some timbers. But he had taken his saws home for a home project so he was with out a saw. I happened to have my pull-saws with me so I went and got them so we could get the job done. Dad had never seen one in use and thought they were a joke. After seeing them used and using them he was sold on them. I ended up giving him my saws as a gift because I knew he wouldn't get them on his own, it was also kinda a "Hey the kid may know a little something too." as well. Those were his go to saws for a long time.

If you don’t have a dad this can be your dad

I dont know why I like watching you hang axes so much but I could watch these back to back to back. great entertainment.

Love the small forest axe bought one last year. my brother used it also and was very happy with it.

ive watched you multiple times do this and i continue to because i enjoy it so much.

Thanks to your videos, I was able to rebuild an Old Plumb "Destroyer" axe that belonged to my father. New handle, metal guard below the head and a handmade sheath. Still hard a work today!

Oh boy I indeed love when its written in Part 1 , 2 , 3 etc. Makes some sort of order , no mess.

Job well done,look forward to re handling my Gransfors.

My grandfather left me an ax and 2 American made knives. and I'm keeping it as a very valuable keepsake. I once heard him say that white ash is an optimal choice for the handle of an ax. my grandpa is gone...i always keep it and will restore it someday. thanks for your good video, your tutorial, very good inspirational video

I love your tool storage. the wood shelving looks so nice and clean.

Gotta say, the content recently has been amazing! Thanks

I appreciate a guy who can take satisfaction from a thing as relatively minor as hafting an axe properly. As always, a pleasure.

I am impressed with these axes from this manufacturer. I rescued a Gransfors axe head from a life of abuse that I found on craigs list. It was obviously abused and the original handle gone. Mine was an AS stamped head. I ordered a new handle from manufacturer and repaired the damage as best as I could. The poll was badly damaged from steel on steel impacts. I filed most of the damage out and trued it back up. It is now a wonderful tool that I am proud to own. They do make outstanding products. I will be passing on to somebody for many more years of service. Treating the hickory handle with boiled linseed oil is essential imo.... makes all the difference on wood handles.

I very much enjoyed this title format. Thank you

Great video.. I have had a Japanese back saw for years and love it. I have purchased a Stihl woodsman hatchet and was hoping that you could one day review them, I have very little knowledge of axes and hatchets and appreciate your knowledge on them.

This was very very helpful, being that I soon will be hanging a handle on my axe head, it’s old I have no idea who made it, I wound it in a creek with a metal wedge in it and I finally decided to take a bench grinder to start cleaning it up, and finish grinding down the mushroomed back on it, I used it for a wedge a little bit last winter, handy splitting wood with my dad’s bad axe, and I am now going to finally get what will be a good handle and hang it, I thank you again for your knowledge

Using the Boiled linseed oil is a great idea, as the expansion will take a bit of time to fully occur, so once you have seated the wedge it will continue to expand make the handle tighter and more secure on the axe head than any glue or epoxy every would!, great video and I always learn something new watching your videos :)

This is probably the greatest axe handling video you can watch

Normal and educational video! Thanks much and keep them coming please! God Bless

Enjoy your videos. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the title Cody, I like the titles that just say what it is :)

fantastic videos.. love the maple hardwood "Dig".. Weldone Sir. peAce

That came out beautiful!

Thanks for all the great work. I just set an axe. Blessings on blessings.

Awesome. The Small Forest Axe is my favorite too.

Uh i watched your previous video couple hours ago i was so excited for the next now it came love you

Beautifully done Cody!

Genuinely used this as a guide while making my own customised axe out Australian Jarrah, well done. Hanging the head trips me out every time though

Thats some beautiful craftsmanship

This video inspired me to refinish and handle an old axe head that belonged to my Great Great Uncle. Thank you for the inspiration!

Nice tool shelve combo behind you. Clever design

Fantastic filming with the lighter shop!

love these types of videos great work

I think ax and forestry videos might be my favorite. But I also really like Carpentry. So ax handles are just the greatest.

I love my 4 in hand, a very simple tool yet so versatile.

Love the way it turned out... good to know if I ever have to replace mine

Great Video! Thanks Brother. By the way, Videos look amazing in the re-vamped shop.

Just finished the first part; was very anxious to watch part two then i saw it was uploaded 11 seconds ago hahah Im an happy subscriber.

instead of hammering the handle of the axe. I use gravity too. by popping the handle on a hard surface or the ground. it works great.

I've never heard you mention this Cody, having watched earlier handle hanging videos where you used boiled linseed oil, but I'm taught that boiled linseed oil as opposed to raw oil actually hardens trough an exothermic reaction (that's why rags soaked in boiled linseed oil can self ignite), so I take it that the BLO not only swells the wood fibers and acts as a lubricant when driving the wedge in, but also acts as a glue when it sets.

Thanks, very informative.

Nice workmanship!!

Awesome job, thank you!🌱