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A customer wanted what is effectively a one handed pickaxe for digging through rocky dirt looking for interesting rocks, and to then chip at those rocks for... whatever reason one chips at interesting rocks.
I did this one somewhat differently than I normally do things like hammers/axes, normally I do those with a wooden handle going into the head; this one has a metal tang going into a socket in the head, and then going into the handle. The idea being that its far less likely to break from years of use, while this will mean more vibration traveling to ones hand, hopefully the handle is thick enough to minimize that.
Making of video can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7B0P…

Description
A customer wanted what is effectively a one handed pickaxe for digging through rocky dirt looking for interesting rocks, and to then chip at those rocks for... whatever reason one chips at interesting rocks.
I did this one somewhat differently than I normally do things like hammers/axes, normally I do those with a wooden handle going into the head; this one has a metal tang going into a socket in the head, and then going into the handle. The idea being that its far less likely to break from years of use, while this will mean more vibration traveling to ones hand, hopefully the handle is thick enough to minimize that.
Making of video can be found here www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew7B0P…