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Thank you for the axe Nils, it turned out great! Looking forward to visiting your forge and making some awesome projects together.

What a privilege to be able to watch a master craftsman creating a specialist tool...thank you Nils and Erik👌🏻

Been watching Erik’s channel for a while now and just subscribed to yours. As an older timber framer I want to thank you guys for keeping the skills alive and well. I have a few axes from Gransfor Buk that I’ve had mixed results with but the ones you’re turning out look great!

I still say that has always been my favorite type of axe. The adze has always fascinated me. Great job

A perfectly designed & built tool! Thanks, BOTH GUYS, for bringing us along!

That turned out beautiful - it takes amazing skills to build something like that and have it turn out that well. Great job!

An amazing adze. The final scene where two superb craftsmen enjoy a few moments together as a reward was a fitting final moment. I have been watching Erik’s work from the start. Well done both of you.🏆👍 Watching from Australia.😁

Beautiful work, I love these traditional woodworking tools.

Awesome job. This turned out very unique and very cool design. I really like it. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Hopefully he will get great use out of it for many years to come my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Forge On. Fab On. Weld On. Keep forge lit. Keep Making. God bless.

The flared adze was used in ship building for many different tasks, including to hew (fairing) the frames before fitting the planks. The flares are there to sever fibres when cutting across the grain. An adze with straight corners will just get stuck in the wood when cutting across the grain. Adzes with a curved edge profile can cut across without getting stuck, but each cut will create a distinct scallop in the wood surface. The flared adze can cut an almost completely smooth surfce both lengthwise and across grain. I believe they were also used when building railways, when fitting the rails to the railway sleepers (-ties, american english) Some of these adzes has a spike at the neck, wich I think was used to adjust the sleepers on the ground, -if you jam the spike into the sleeper you can lift it slightly and adjust it without having to bend over to pick it up. After that you just wigglw the spike loose and continue your adzing.

Absolutely beautifully done, Nils!

You have some amazing skills and make beautiful tools.

Well made and very functional, great video. You’re a good axe maker 👍. Regards from Down Under.

Super work.

lovely lines and glad you got to see it used!

I really enjoy that you choose to make woodworking axes because they are all unique and have a specialized purpose compared to felling axes. Also when you upset the metal does it cry lol.

Awesome job , I really appreciate the skill you possess. Thanks for sharing

Such a cool projekt Nils 😍 thank you for sharing!

Really nice craftsmanship

Adler from Germany have this solution .well done

Beautiful work right there

Восхитительное качество ковки - постобработка почти не требуется.

Awesome video, you rule man! I would love to see your take on Tapio Wirkkalas beautiful axe.

Härligt att se er båda tillsammans! Och verkligen fint arbete - som alltid. 👍👌

Great video man, thank you for sharing 👍👍

Nice work! Nice shop! Thank you! RWB ❤🎉

Made my back feel good watching you use it

Maravilhoso trabalho! Parabéns. Estou certo que o Erik fará belos trabalhos com ela.

I wanna call this a hammerhead shark adze. Naming a tool after an animal that is named after another tool is peak etymology.

Nice adze. You might consider shortening the handle so you can straddle the log and swing between your legs. I find this to be a much more comfortable and efficient angle at which to use an adze for this purpose.

I was skeptical but man it seems to cut nice, your friend does beautiful work as do you!

Fin tjäckelyxa!

.... that's a hew-gueeeee AXE! Nice work sir

Dude that's awesome

Awesome work 👏 Bless you 🥂

Very good craftsmanship n skill looks great

Turned out pretty well

Very nice tool Nils, enjoyed.

Nice one mate!! Looks the goods! Anytime you feel like coming "down under" we'll chuck a few extra snags on the barby, maybe even a shrimp or two!! Of course a few tinnies on ice won't go astray.... an yarn away the evening! Just one question mate, how do your addze perform on eucalyptus wood?? Got a bit of spotty gum I need to whittle down a bit for a keel of a boat.... cheers, from the land down under..... (If you're upside down)😂

I have to admit that I don't know you and that I saw the first video when you were at Torbjörn Åhman's. This is my second video and I have been following Erik for several years. He is certainly excited about this wonderful tool. It's a beautiful job. Looks like I'm going to start following a new blacksmith haha! 😉🤘🏻👍🏻

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Как круто. Я обожаю твои видео. Жаль редко выходят. Спасибо

You already have a collection of every kind of axes

Thunder bear would be proud of this one. I think it should be named hammerhead shark.

Fantastic job. 👍👍

Looks amazing to use! 🤙🏻

clean work mate, well done

I recently saw your collaboration with Torbjörn and now here's a video on a tool you made for Erik. I have been following both for a while. Might as well follow your channel :)

What was the creamy topping on the sausage.

Looks amazing ! An ADZE and a Gigantic Back Scratcher for those hard to get places?? Every man's dream tool!!!🇨🇦😄

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That is a very imprecise tool, but fun looking.

Panowie Wikingowie! Narzędzia ręcznie robione są super👍ale ten biały chleb i kiełbaski z marketu wcale nie pasują ani do Was,ani do otoczenia. To ja za was mam upolować renifera i upiec chleb razowy?!😀

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This is awesome. Best of both worlds between the adze motion and the flat results on the axe. Is there any historical reference to this specific style tool?

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Den ursprungliga adze visade sig! 👍 På ryska kommer det att låta-teslo.

Good to hear your voice

Are you putting coal in the eye in the very first clip of working the metal? You mentioned in your other video that it helps keep the drift stuck, right? I've never tried it.

Wow vilket flow och ännu en grymt bra film.

💪💪💪 desde España

What steel are you using?

Nice to see you turn your hand to something different! Question though, keeping your drift inside the heated axe for so long, does it not start to soften the drift?

Hello! That turned out amazing! I have a question tho, not related to the axe… what is that white thing you put on top of the sausage? :)

in Scotland we call the ears or your head lugs

Hi Eric! My 5-year-old wants to know what you put on your hotdogs at the end of the video. What is the white stuff?

In Spain, adzes are short-handled.

What kind of steel?

Это всё можно и обычным топором срубить. Стоило ли тесло ковать?

What was that sauce on the hotdogs

Just picked up a lipped adze in usa auction identical to yours unfortunately the make never left his mark on piece

Vad lustigt, jag satt och tänkte senast igår att din stil på yxor borde passa Erik

haha trodde först att det det var en erikgrankvist video, tänkte aha ska han testa på smida, spännande. sen så tänkte jag, men vänta lite, har inre erik en väldigt grov röst!? haha roande video :)

Nice lip adze

That tool is not an axe. That is an adze. The blade can come in different shapes and lengths for each purpose. For instance, a shipwright's adze has a long curved blade.

grymt bra jobb!! min vän

Long times to make oldfashion timber

du you have eshop?

Майстор работи с мерак и удоволствие.

Isn’t that an adz?

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Mustard, boys. Mustard.

Was that for veg or non veg

C'est rigolo, erik a une magnifique cabane et il est toujours dehors... 😅

Swedish poeple have snow on their hotdogs

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This is a adze used for squaring logs not an axe.

Can you make a katana please

Erstmal ein Red Bull.

Hei😃 Kan du det norske navnet på denne øksen?

choripan

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I know the exe design but I can't have it

ทำมีดให้ดูมั่ง

rhar's an adze, not an axe. Great video though.

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BFD

Every axe needs a name and this one should be "shin splitter". Be careful using this one!

Adze... not an axe

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