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Published: 2016-03-22 22:18:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 4371; Favourites: 164; Downloads: 35
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She's an odd one, weirdest of the flock. Can stare for hours without a word. Examining everything which happens to be interesting to her, like a tiny scholar, with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. She's only four, but definitely different from the others."Were you always a woodsman?" -she asks suddenly.
"Sure" -flies my swift reply with hopes that it will break her concentration, but her chain of thought seems indestructible, there is no weak link in it, is solid as a block of granite and just like a sledgehammer, wielded by a boy, my answer bounces off of it, and before I can prepare myself, comes the second wave:
"Really?" -sounds typically childish, like the sweet child she is, but her gaze tells a different story, this is a trap! She knows that I know that she knows about the axe. A long forgotten relic of the misty past, which I exiled from my life and hid well in the barn attic ages ago -at least that's what I thought, till this day.
"Yes, not counting my time as a ranker in the marquis's guards, of course. But that was a long time ago, well before I met you grandmother." -I lied, seemingly not too well, since I noticed that almost invisible little grin at the edge of her lips, what she makes when she nabs someone on a knack. Hmm... seems that some things don't get better with age, I was never good in mind-games.
"Ohh..." -she was far from convinced. It was a half-truth, if there is such a thing. But how could I tell the truth?! How could an infant, who only now begins to live, understand what duty means? Comprehend what following an order blindly means, no matter how just, cruel or bloody, because that's what loyalty to your lord demands? Because that's what a headsman does...
It is around 1.5 kilograms with shaft included, the head is 225 mm long with a 202 mm long edge, forged of 5160 and 1.2516 with 200 layers.
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Comments: 35
A Beauty.
I guess, in here Finland the shape would be called "Ukonkirves"
I have seen them a lot as pendants, (very close as Thor´s hammer)
("Ukko" is our highest god, as Odin at ancient Norge)
Really, really beautiful axe.
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Thanks a lot!
Yes, I already had some comments noticing that it looks like a giant Mjolnir, and come to think of it, it really does!
Btw, you have a cool mythology! Too bad christianity came and ruined everything
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This is a realy famos work. fit and finish are exellent.
A masterpiece.
By,..
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Thanks a lot!
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Oh, you bloody bastard! You managed to forge a damascus broad axe before us! Well, not that surprising, since we students yet, working on all manner of nonsense in school and still working on our little smithy for the weekends, but gods dammit! 
Anyway, lovely axe, certainly has a bit of a fantasy feeling, altough I know historical examples of similar shape. Must've taken lots of hours and willpower. 
1,5kg is rather heavy for an axe! How long is the haft and of what material? It looks like a beech to me, but I am not an expert on this! And the head seems almost like it's glued in place...?
Well done!
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Hehe... thanks a lot
You are right with everything you said. It was made just like that.
This project was too big for me to forge it from one piece from the start. So the body is made of two billets and the edge from +1 of the same material. Than forgewelded together just like you wrote.
Have no idea what the shaft is, bought it at the local hardware store, shaped it and died it red, because I like it better this way. It is 60 cm long and is carved after the eye of the axe, and it has a wedge, like normal axe's but I also filled the eventual little gaps with epoxi. I tried this idea before with my own wood splitting axes, which after some time became loose with the conventional shaft securing methods, but filling them with epoxi made them boombproof! Try it
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Oooh, cool! Well, hardware store handles here are from beechwood, so I guess I was right. I only used epoxy once, to secure a blade in a boar's tusk. Still have half the content of the tubes somewhere around here, but in the years, I haven't had the chance to use it.
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Yes, it could be beech
Have no rawhide around so unfortunately I can't experiment with that
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Love the folded steel as well as the shape. Great job.
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This is un-friggin-believeably beautiful and terrifying! Love the text too ;3
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Thanks a lot!
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This is beautiful, a real piece of quality steelwork.
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Thanks a lot, glad you think so
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Thank you, but I have to admit, that the design isn't my own. My dear customer supplied me with it
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I see, but you still did a great job on making the ax.
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Oh, I love the metal. Is it a result of the process like Damascus steel or is it more of the material itself?
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Thanks. You are right, this is damascus steel
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Nice. I have been watching the show forged in fire and they showed how this metal is made. Really cool work.
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And also tanks for the hint, I didn't heard of the show before.
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Your welcome and hope you like the show.
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Hey I have a question? Do you think an axe with a blade that curves inwards slightly in a bit of a moon like shape would be even better suited for beheading someone?
Great work as usual and did you write that piece in the description or is it a quote from a novel?
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I wrote it myself, took 1.5 hours from my life
Well, I am no expert in any way, but I think that a blade with a moon like edge is quite unpractical when it comes to beheading, because the hardest part is to crush the vertebra (if you aren't lucky enough to avoid it and find the gap between the 2 bones.) Now the vertebra is the highest point of the neck, when you put your head to a classical beheading wood, so that contacts first with the edge of the axe, and so the middle of the curve of the edge concentrates all the power and mass which the axe has in that moment.
If the edge is concave, the two tips of the edge touch the wood, loosing its power, before it has the opportunity to crush the bone.
With a guillotine it is a different story, because there is no wood stump to stop the blade.
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Probably not, a concave blade would be more likely to make contact across its whole length, increasing the surface resistance and wasting energy. The convex curve allows the striking point to open the way for the rest of the blade.
There are some historical examples of convex blades on halberds, but these are more often heavily ornamental and probably unintended for any real use.
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