Ben gives you a step by step guide to making an axe handle with an axe kit from Wetterlings.
For more information visit the Wetterlings website: www.wetterlings.se
Ben gives you a step by step guide to making an axe handle with an axe kit from Wetterlings.
For more information visit the Wetterlings website: www.wetterlings.se
Do you ever stop and realise how fortunate you are to live among such a green, picturesque landscape?
Great video! Very nice shop with a fantastic view. I keep expecting a flock of sheep to amble by.
Great video and nice woodshop too.
Beautiful studio. The scenery outside looks amazing.
Excellent video. You have a kick ass shop with a great view to boot!
That is quite the shop you've got there, Ben! Thanks for sharing!
Yep.....! You bossed that one. Tidy work, well done. Regards KCB 🇬🇧 And thanks for posting vid.
Mad skills Ben , love your work .
Excellent video Ben - a pleasure to watch.
You have a fantastic shop with an incredible view. What more could a woodworker ask for.
Hi Ben, This is my first visit to your channel and I subscribed right away! Great content, well presented. Love the shop and your teaching style. You have a new Apprentice! hehe TBA
You make that look so easy! Outstanding job!
Excellent job, and thanks for taking your time too make this great video.
Amazing video and a kick ass working shop indeed
Hello Ben, Thanks for the upload. Nice to hear someone who really knows what he is talking about. Take care. mrbluenun
Beautiful place you've got there, inside and out.
Excellent work! Very neat kit to consider too.
Ben, your talent never ceases to amaze me. You, my friend are truly talented. Very well done! Thank you for sharing!
It's a decent and useful video, thanks a lot, sir! Those old wooden appliances for fixing the material are really nice, too.
Thanks for a nice video. I have mucked up a few handles in the past and now you have shown me the proper way to do it. Frank Virginia
Very good tutorial Ben, thanks for your knowledge and time to post it
Excellent instructions Ben, thanks.
Having done my share of wooden boatbuilding, YOU are a fine woodworker! I'd also say that your abilities as an instructor are admirable. Thanks for this good video.
Really well explained how to. Great use of an axe to rough out the shape. Thanks. Cheers from France, Andy.
awesome, as always. you are truley a fountain of knowledge
Good video. I think stressing taking your time is great. I have taught shop to adults and people were always wanting to make things to fast.
I came across a carpenters hatchet, axe and a small 4lb. sledgehammer that were my great grandfathers made sometime in the 1800's. Had to replace the handles and they turned out great. Wish I had a crook knife like you had to shape the handles. It sure would have made it a little easier, but I got it done. Great video and thanks for making it.
Excellent tutorial!
Great Video Ben!
All I needed to know, liked and subbed, thanks.
Your videos are excellent.
great video of how to make a handle and install the head, good craftsmanship
Great video mate keep up the good work! Greetz from the Netherlands
Superb work!
Very nice and thourough tutorial. Definitely a subscriber.
Very Good,,informative and will be putting your advice to use ,, making a handle for an old hewing axe ,,next week....Thank You
Thanx for this video! I recently restored an old axe head I bought on a flea-market and your video was a big help during the process... I watched it every time I was ready for the 'next phase'.... I still need to finish it with lineseedoil (I have some trouble to find the right kind) and giving it a superb grind (I only gave it a rough grind at the moment, but it chops really well already). Thanx!
Very nice video. Thanks for posting!
Goog Job! Hope that this handle will bee good in use. Thank you!
like your work like your stove!
Great vid. Nice work.
Great video! Just what I needed to restore this old ax I found. :)
Thanks for the video,I like watching you do these short projects using hand tools.If you have time could you do more videos with the tools you make and sell.Ta
Great video really liked it.
Tanks for a great video. very informative
Very well presented, thanks Ben. I too would like to see how you made the joints of that Stump Table that looks to have taken a lot of heavy use.
nice work,and i love the axes on the wall behonde u i have a few on my wall aswell
Find it usefull indeed, thank you for the effort, subscribed.
Excellent video
thank you very much for the lesson, was very useful.
Thank you! Very interesting video!
that being said, very good video! i enjoyed it greatly
Wicked great help man
nice job, and instruction,thanks
great instruction. thanks
Great video Ben :)
very useful. thanks mate
Hello Ben, greetings from Argentina. first of all, thank you for this video, it has been very helpfull! I was wondering if one could put the finishing oil before placing the axe on the handle. Im working on a proyect of recicling an old axe handle, which means i might ask more questions later on. Thank you and Good Day!
Very nice!
I'll try to make it! :) Very usefull!
Awesome!! More of this kind of videos please :D
Great video. The audio is very quiet, however. I love your shop and your shave vice. I've never seen one before. Could you do a short video of how it is made? Thanks.
Thank u for great video amigo!!! Do u think white maple would be good wood to make a handle for mi hatchet? , thank u again🙏🏾
awesome video... never done one before but i think i might just have a crack at it now!
Thank you
Thanks for the video! That is pretty cool, and I will be trying to replicate your success. Tell me something; how wide is the wedge slot/groove, and did you cut your wedge from the same type of wood or just any old regular softwood? Thanks!
Hi, Ben. I was wondering where you purchased the Wetterlings kit. Another very informative video, thanks!
Nice video, thanks :)
Hi Ben. Is this kit still available? I haven't found it anywhere here in Canada, and Wetterlings' website isn't so great when it comes to up-to-date info.
Hello, is there particular reason for chopping the main shape with axe? It seems it would be much easier to just cut it with bandsaw. Or would the saw somehow weaken the wood by not respecting fibers direction? Anyway this is very informative video. I recently broke a handle on my old axe and will need to make a new one. I'm sure this tutorial will come in handy.
very cool...
Absolutely love your vids, Ben, but your recording audio levels are very very low, and I cant hear your excellent advice!
Awesome video! A canoe paddle next?
In your green woodwork in #2 you use one style shave horse while you used an other style in this video. Why and when do you use one over the other? What was the “hand draw knife (type) tool called? Thanks
What is that bench/vise/holder thing called
Hey Ben! Any recommendations on the folding saw?
hello.I want to ask which of this woods are batter for hanldes,maple,ash,beech or oak.Thank you.
Nice
What is the bench you are using to hold the handle in place while shaving it down?
Good video, and how to, but really bad audio. I could hardly hear you. Maybe the problem was on my end I don't know. But I really enjoyed watching you make the handle. I learned something.
Hi Ben, Can you recommend some spokeshaves? What do you use? Cheers
Say you had to make the handle in the woods, how do you go about drying it out, so it desn't shrink and the head come flying off?
How does these axes stand on the wall? Can you show those axe wall-holders nearer
that shop!
Ben, I'm after a 36" fawn's foot handle for an old Elwell 5lb felling axe with a 3 1/2" eye. Not happy with the few that are available. Any ideas?
Good video Ben, one little thing though, maybe it's just my computer, but is the sound quality really low? could barely hear you. Stephen
What kind of wood is best for the job?
great video thanks....what if all you have is freshly cut wet oak wood? doesnt it need to be cured or dried first?
Well you can make the handle first when it’s green but make sure you leave the head end over size. It can then be dried before shaping to fit. Hope that helps👍
So you mention that this would be a good skill to know in case you break your handle in the field. Since I would most like only have one axe and the handle would be broken, I'd like to see how to make this with only filed carried tools and the axe being broken. Also, you show a pre-cut piece of hickory. I'd like to know what to do in the field. How to pick a piece of wood. Finding dried wood or waiting for it to dry is not always an option.
Because you're wearing a multicam pant, i'll give you a thumb up :)
nice video
Levi Brunsdon Dave cantabery
For a 2.5lbs head. How,long should the handle be. I have two to do.
Just wondering... how long is your draw blade?
Where do you get that LAVA stain?
Find/cut a branch from a tree that is a little bit bigger in diameter than the handle you want to build and using your knife shape it into a straight handle.People have used straight handles on their tools for millions of years and some still do...With your newly fixed axe you can carve a better/fancier handle like you can see on this video:QVXvw6to2xA .Hope that helps!The most important thing is to actually start doing/carving something.
"Obviously if you're out in the woods and you need to restore your axe handle you won't have a bandsaw, so we'll show you how to do it with an axe." What. *What.* THEY HAVE NO AXE. THEY CANNOT USE A TOOL THEY DO NOT HAVE.
XD that's hilarious
+Sitric Brave Well, you could use the head. It would take a bit of work without the handle, but it is possible. But I do get what you're saying.
+Sitric Brave Since the handle blank is for a boy's axe size (or same would apply for a felling axe size), I'm guessing he means using your hatchet to shape the handle for the larger axe considering you would never really use a larger size axe for carving/roughing out anyway. In the woods, without a dried blank, you could make a temporary handle from green wood -- which could be shaped using a knife since it'll be softer.
you can stick a rough temporary handle into the ax head...but I've never known an experienced woodsman to break a handle...
Obviously this has caused a little confusion, this was to show you the skills in a workshop so you understand the process. Then if you are out in he woods and have to fix a broken tool you can. Effectively you can use the axe head without a handle to fashion a new handle it will just take longer. You could make a new axe handle with what you have to hand and be resourceful. 👍
Hi.. great tutorial.. would you recommend using cedar wood for the handle ?
Abhinav Aggarwal I would say that cedar would not make a great handle. Too soft
ok thanks.
even oak is not a good choice for a handle. maple works well but it is hard to shape. Hickory is the best as far as I know
Liked the video but you should have used the band saw cos i haven't been in any woods where they have vices, Japaneze saws, lump hammers ,steel rulers for a long time. Nice work though.
thanks Ben, hope i didn't sound ignorant!
wow it would be great if i could hear it