Recent content by HillBill

I've been watching this guy for a while. His channel is about him renovating 2 stone cabins in the Italian Alps for him to live him. Very chilled and interesting. https://www.youtube.com/@MartijnDoolaard/featured

Best thing to do is take a few swings with both, see which one feels better. The heartwood may have a little more shock down the handle due to it being a little harder.

Tbh, the replacement has a better handle (cracks aside). The grain is tighter. Personally, i'd keep that one and send the original back.

I wouldn't worry about it.

You take the axe if you want it mate. I'm not too bad thanks. Hope you're well also.

Any chance of a top down view of the head please mate? I'd like to see the profile.

If you have to book months in advance, they're good. If they are available at your convenience, they are not well regarded.

He means depth. Top part of tang to the bottom.

Just width mate.

I cut my scales at 10mm. Once you add on the liners and tang, that gives me a good inch to play with. For most that's more than enough. What's the measurement of the widest part of the handle you have? A nice thick handle is beneficial when needing full grips for more powerful cuts, but not...

Nice one Phil.

RWL is better as it is a powder steel ( actually so is CPM come to think of it, confused it with 154CM). Smaller/cleaner grain structure, looks like porcelain when heat treated correctly. Not used CPM to make something, but used it on other knives. I do prefer RWL

Unfortunately for the spiders, we now have 7 cats. They don't get far.

Nice machine Hugh. It's more than i'll ever need for keeping the woodburner in the new workshop fed though. I'm still able to enjoy manual splitting, and i don't have anywhere near as much work to do as you guys do. I did treat myself to a chainsaw, as i was getting bored of felling and bucking...

Nice and clean that mate.