I keep meaning to buy a pickaroon, do you find it a big advantage if you’re splitting? (especially if you have a sharp axe in your hand to lift up smallish logs).  I can’t see your other pics Neil, by tomahawk fit I meant like a pickaxe…if you get me. I think I’ll give up on the tea patina. I’ve seen videos on youtube of people basically burning boiled linseed oil on to steel to give a black finish so I think that’ll be may next effort. If it gets rid of some of this shitty toxic blo all the better.

I could see how the tea would work for either a new high carbon knife or axe head that was new or completely covered in rust but I’ve been working at both of mine and some parts take the patina and others just won’t. More pics to follow.

I haven’t watched all of last nights card (putting it on now) but I did watch Mirsad Bectic vs Godofredo Pepey….great fight. Check it out. The winner is my no1 future prospect ;)

That’s not a flamethrower…

Anything below 9% is a sports drink.

I’m pretty sure using fighter jets to get KOMs is against the rules of Strava. I did clock 500mph myself once, but that’s another story.

neilnevill

That looks nice. I believe you are right, i think with any etching process you wipe off the black muck and keep going for a deeper etch.

Aye, seems to be going well today, although it’s kind of random as to which parts seem to darken.

I knocked the remaining stub of handle out my hatchet head. It had an odd fit (which I’m told suggests Scandinavian origin). The haft was glued or resined on! The eye is weirdly shaped, tapering and then flaring again as it goes through the head and the haft had 2-3mm of resin around it filling the flare, and no wedged Kerf. So I’ll be filing the constriction in the eye away and fitting a haft as normal. Made a start and the steel is fairly hard, but it does cut with the round file so I should manage it in 20-30 mins.

Sounds weird, do you mean like a tomahawk fit? Post some pics up if you can.

It doesn’t look too bad today. Quite a bit darker than yesterday, I guess removing it and cleaning it aided the process. I offered it up to the handle and it feels really good. I’ll be jumping it on quite a bit more than this but thought I’d share

I cleaned up the edge a bit to see how it would contrast….hard to catch the light to show it though.

This is what I’m aiming for though, bit of a way to go yet.

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Jay Mohr, topically funny to me, want to see something recent from him.
Tom Segura, best mainstream stand up out there currently I reckon.

Theres not a ton of timeless stand up comedians though are there?
They all loose relevance at some point

I don’t think they all lose relevance,or rather it’s not just the passage of time, a good stand up comedian will obviously have to work hard, hone their craft and continually revise their act and their material to build a following. Once they’ve established a following they’ll have to continue to develop their material in order to stay fresh and relevant. But if they are really good, and become well known they’ll either be tempted to dillute their act for tv or simply become a tv personality.

It probably becomes a difficult line to straddle when you start to get money, fame and recognition as well as other avenues and opportunities – write a book/sitcom/animated series etc. Do you keep honing your standup material and stay on the road as a standup or take the money and appear on 8 out of 10 cats once a month?

Oh dear re the tea. Try the warm vinegar etch?

I was thinking Oak is full of tannins and hence iron stains it….a load of Oak saw chips in a stew of tea and vinegar…. That won’t smell great.

I’ll post pics after a while. I might give it once more go in some fresh tea, after that I think I’ll just order some gun blue, seems like least messy way to go about it.

if DC and Stipe can get a big pay day and DC can finally get the stigma of Jon Jones off then I guess it’s all good. DC has a very real chance of winning imo.

High five to myself for excellent formatting of the above post. Good thing this forum is funded by Premier subscribers and millions of pop up ads otherwise it would go to the dogs like free porn sites in the early 200s.

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A religious nutter. Actually a complete religious psycho. Also someone who despises smugness. And if there’s anything Gervais is <em class=”bbcode-em”>par excellence, it is smug.

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+1. Gervais is an insufferably smug prick. Every time I eat bacon I imagine the pig had a face like his,

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@jimjam – we are of a like mind! I’ve laughed more after belting my elbow hard on a sharp corner than I have at any MacIntyre ‘joke’,

I definitely laughed at him once, but then I used to drink. Heavily. A lot. And I still do, but good gawd he’s about as funny as North Korea.

Bump. In case anyone is interested, my axe head blackening in tea hasn’t gone great. The untouched parts of the head that had surface rust are completely jet black but the rest of the head (which I had cleaned up) has only darkened slightly. It’s not bad looking, it’s a nice looking little head anyway, but I would prefer it was properly black so I might try a different method.

I’m considering starting a general axe modifying/restoration thread as I have three lined up, this thread might do, or is the title and the op too vague?.

Facebook has gone to the dogs. It doesn’t matter if your friends consist of the Avengers, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and every Nobel prize winner alive, the layout and the feed has gone to shit. It’s the mixture of text, pictures, gifs, videos, autoplay videos, animated gifs as videos, external links, videos in links….in short it’s a cluster****. Trying to be all things to all people and failing miserably. The groups can be useful occasionally if you need to buy a second hand car and miss the old days when Gumtree was like the wild west.

On top of that there’s the obvious intrusion into your privacy, the very dubious marketing tactics, completely unregulated political spamming and god knows what else they are gathering on you. I keep an account open as a means to communicate with people should I need to do so but beyond that I try to avoid it as much as possible.

I can’t think of a sensible reply that mentions Trump. So…Trump.

Someone made the point once, that a good way to reduce the risk of nuclear war would be that whenever someone pushed a nuclear launch ‘button’, that person should immediately be shot in the head (and their deputy take over). It would give a certain clarity to decision making and bring home the implications of the act.

Seems like a great idea for encouraging diligent workers in all kinds different industries.

I said anyone who thinks like this is a loon[ colloquial sense not a diagnosis] . Despite the number of personal attacks on me no one chose to defend this, including you, as an accurate account of reality.Do you want to this time or just ad hom me again?

You continually refer to being insulted where no insult is given while you infer that someone else is a lunatic. You’ve posted the same quote (and your assessment) at least five times by my count, and despite the fact that every time you do, you are reminded  that Petterson has spoken at great length making the correlation and you can just watch some videos or read some of his words to find an explanation but you just continue to ignore this and re-post the same thing. Ignoring replies you don’t want to hear isn’t the same as not getting a reply.

If you think it is you dont have the greatest perspective as your radical right wing political view clouds your ability to see reality

Pray tell, what are my radical right wing views? I suppose from the perspective of a marxist ideologue everyone is “radical right wing”.  Or you’re just trying to attack me and make sure that if anyone’s reading this who isn’t aware, I’m a bad person. Right? I mean, there are synonyms for people who hold radical right wing views…I can’t remember any off hand though. What are they again?

That is a lie my post made four factual points and none of them were political, any of which you could have chosen to address rather than get personal, at all. I have no idea how it could be seen as bullying. Good job I did not do what you did eh you would be apoplectic with rage. So many on here do what they are complaining about
FFS let it go man let it go.

I have no desire to engage with the opinions you posit as facts when your reasons for posting are more illuminating than the post itself. If a woman or a transgender person made a post about suffering emotional or physical abuse  would you have chimed in to ensure  everyone knew how statistically unlikely or likely their abuse was?  As Cougar puts it

Men’s rights activists” are generally right-wing nutjobs who are a threat to their own swiveleyesation

so you simply couldn’t let the discussion continue normally. It’s a perfect illustration of how you’re more concerned with dumping on anyone or anything that even hints at contradicting your world view. I wasn’t remotely surprised by your post, merely the fact that Cougar was.

FWIW GT i see you as on some sort of very public route to “recovery” as you explain the reasons for your views publicly. I think its very brave of you to do so and positive that men can discuss emotional topics openly. Man hugs all round as i dont agree with you but i do respect you.

I guess there’s no point checking your replies to his previous topics to see if that’s what you really think.

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men’s rights is a right wing topic

“Men’s rights activists” are generally right-wing nutjobs who are a threat to their own swiveleyesation. People who don’t understand the difference between equality and equity.  But that’s got the square root of **** all to do with anything on this thread.

Thanks for reinforcing my point for me.

[quoteSeems hyperbolic but that’s the new reality we live in.[/quote]

It might be the reality you live in but it’s a fiction.

I obviously meant political reality/current affairs culture but thanks for deliberately conflating that and turning it into an ad-hom. I see my point was well made, perhaps you genuinely were surprised by Junkyard being Junkyard. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/05/men-victims-domestic-violence

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I’m genuinely surprised at you here JY.  For someone who’s worked with victims, I’m stunned that your immediate reaction to a thread on the subject is to start picking holes in what’s being said (especially given that no-one’s said it’s under-reported, though I was about to).  Do you want to go out and come back in again?

You’re surprised??????? Just to bring you up to speed Cougar, men’s rights is a right wing topic. If you’re a man, especially a white man, and really especially a white middle class man in the western world you cannot be victimized in any way because of your white privilege . If you disagree you are obviously right wing. Which makes you alt right. Which means you’re a Nazi. Sorry. Seems hyperbolic but that’s the new reality we live in.  I guess you haven’t noticed the way he attacks every thread, poster or topic that disagrees in any way shape or form with his political world view like a rabid animal? A kind assessment would be to use a term like troll, or provocateur but they’re not really applicable since he actually seems to  believe what he posts. What was it he posted recently, Jordan Petterson is mental because he links feminism to Marxism? Words to that effect.

It’s hard to see where lies stop and the delusion  starts. If you haven’t noticed this I guess you must be drinking the same Koolaid as him, which is worrying.

The fact that he couldn’t resist sticking his political oar in, to contradict, belittle and provoke even on a thread about such a personal experience shows that there’s no depths to which he won’t sink in order to attack or bully people who he sees as his “enemy” politically.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/doomsday-clock/

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-doomsday-clock/

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/doomsday-clock-1/

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-doomsday-clock-moves-closer-to-midnight/

I don’t think there’s any danger of victim blaming. If someone male/female/other has personality traits or tendencies that someone sees, then takes advantage of, either by bullying, mental, physical or emotional abuse then that makes the abuse even more egregious.

To elaborate briefly the “something” in my friends’ case , superficially at least, is that he’s very easy going and doesn’t cope well with conflict, even disagreements. I could see a mile away that he was being exploited, even bullied by his boss and I pestered him for a year to come to my brazilian jiu-jitsu club – not to defend himself, rather if he was confident in his ability to strangle his boss unconscious he might be able to stand up to him.

I never imagined that he would actually get attacked and beaten up by his boss when he finally stood up for himself that’s exactly what happened. At the time I considered starting a thread here but since it wasn’t my personal experience it didn’t feel right to do so.

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I did this, we had a nice leather sofa that I couldn’t give away, so thought I would remove the leather (for another project) and strip it down and burn the hardwood frame in my stove. It really wasn’t worth the effort, the amount of staples and foam/cardboard glued to the wood was ridiculous, and it took several evenings to strip down to something that could be burned.

That’s my opinion too. I would add though that my sofa had large feet which I took to be of solid wood. When I burned them in the stove they turned out to be made of some sort of plastic material that burned like rocket fuel. I was genuinely afraid that the stove would crack or set something on fire. I’ve never seen anything burn like that, so be careful.

I hope that you are able to get some catharsis from posting that geetee. I have a friend who seems to have had a very bad childhood and while he hasn’t explicitly told me that he’s been in abusive relationships reading between the lines I strongly suspect this is the case. He was forced to leave his job because he rejected the advances of one of his female collegues and was then bullied and ultimately assaulted by his next employer after that and I feel as though there is something in his personality that makes him vulnerable to  people who would abuse him, either physically or mentally.

Not saying that’s the case with you, but I’m often reminded of him when I read your posts and it helps to bear in mind that we shouldn’t make sweeping assumptions about people.

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When Elton John dies I’m moving to Greenland.

By the time Elton dies we’ll all have the ability to carry vast amounts of music around on portable devices, or beam it directly on demand from almost infinite virtual libraries. The idea of having to tune in to a particular station, at a certain time and listen to what some professional “disc jockey” decides to play will seem utterly laughable to us. In the future.

will there be a like button ?

No, just an unlike button.

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Jimjam, I presume you meant your head is in the tea…. Not the handle?

Aye. I was so excited to get the handles I was obviously confused. The bowl with the head and the tea has turned totally black now. I don’t want to cut the process short but I can’t wait – the wee handle feels beautiful.

Blo, lots of it, will finish the handle nicely.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently. A few years ago I bought boiled linseed oil from Homebase or B&Q. It smelled lovely, dried in quickly and left my Gransfors Bruks handles looking great. Recently I had been treating my handles with raw linseed oil and wanted to buy some more boiled stuff, just for that darker colour but the stuff I got from screwfix smells like bleach and doesn’t really seem to work well on the handles.

After a little research and some youtubing I am led to believe that modern boiled linseed oil is just linseed oil with chemical drying agents added and can be quite toxic. Now, it wasn’t that many years ago that I bough my last batch of BLO but it smelled exactly like raw linseed oil and did a great job. I’d certainly welcome any leads as to where I can buy nice, non chemical BLO in the UK or Ireland otherwise I think I’ll be sticking to raw linseed oil or flax oil from now on as it genuinely seems like a nice oil to use and from what I can discern is non toxic.

I’ve watched that at least once before and almost got sucked into watching the whole thing again. Something oddly therapuetic about watching people make axes.

Really enjoyed those episodes. Can’t wait to see the finished car.

I usually use Sky Tec Beta 1 like these

for similar reasons to yourself, avoiding minor cuts and splinters when handling logs/brash. They don’t restrict dexterity or handling at all, feel ok when wet and work with smart phones. They do many similar gloves, I just choose the Beta for visibility. They’re about £8 for two pairs. If it’s properly miserable I’ll use their thermal version.

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I would have thought helicopters and private jets might have weeded them out

Nah, if you’ve got those things you’ll be busy cultivating a fascinating and sexy instagram account, not on here quibbling over speeding or Trump or whatever it is.

If I’m just processing firewood I prefer safety glasses and ear protection and I can barely use a saw with chainsaw gloves on so generally just use light thin gloves.

Chainsaw boots all the time though.

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I’ve got some new handles to fit so a couple of non-fancy heads, after I broke the original ones.

I have the steel wedges etc.

Any tips on how to do it?

Presumably shave down the head end so it just squeezes in to the head. Do I pre split the end? Do I soak it in fair trade yak milk?

Yes you’ll need to cut a kerf in the handle if it doesn’t have one already, and you’ll need a wooden wedge in addition to a steel pin or wedge. You’ll probably want a wooden mallet or deadblow hammer, a chisel or decent knife, lots of sand paper and a vice would handy.

Beyond that youtube tutorials are probably the best way to go as it’s a fairly repetitive rinse, repeat process and I certainly don’t feel qualified to speak on it. When you are done you will want to oil the handle in some way, linseed oil is the consensus best oil to use.

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As nobody seriously claimed to be the richest

Thread was doomed from the outset. No one’s going to actually fess up. The correct approach would be to start a thread about Porsche customer service, what lawn tractor, working in the petro-chemical industry, horse boxes etc and see who bites….just saying :wink:

How many?

My handles arrived today. Unfortunately one of them was the wrong model, I ordered a 29″ curved handle and a 13″ curved but the 29″ handle which arrived was straight. Happily I contacted Woodsmith Experience and they told me to keep the straight handle and are sending me the one I had initially ordered FOC. Great service and very happy with that as it’ll be a handy spare.

Also I offered the handle up to the little hatchet and it feels amazing. It honestly might be my favorite tool when finished. So the handle is soaking in tea now, can’t wait to get it it finished and hung. The bigger felling axe head still needs work to get it looking good but I’m excited to get it finished too.