Started with an axe head and a hickory board, spent several hours with hand saws, various files, and a few rasps, and ended with a hung axe on a nicely contoured haft that I literally made to fit my hand...
Guess what, though, that hickory I was told to dry enough to work...yeah, no. Less than an hour after finish sanding and cracks are already forming...
The frustration is real.
Liam the Golden Illdraen, Guerilla Skirmisher of Sshamath Guy "Knife-Ears" Masterson
Boddynock Namfoodle, Illusionist Extraordinaire! (temporary leave of absence, again)
"Liam the Golden, so I have heard,
Yet truly none can polish a..." - Ameris Santraeger, 2016
On a happy note, I got a bit better at using the lathe today...
Liam the Golden Illdraen, Guerilla Skirmisher of Sshamath Guy "Knife-Ears" Masterson
Boddynock Namfoodle, Illusionist Extraordinaire! (temporary leave of absence, again)
"Liam the Golden, so I have heard,
Yet truly none can polish a..." - Ameris Santraeger, 2016