Timber Framers Guild Forums Tools Tool Forum Hand forged chisels and slicks, looking for advice

Hi.

Do you talk about something like that?

The bottom one looks like what I am talking about. The top looks to long in the head, with too short a handle. A similar tool, but slightly different. But again, the bottom looks like examples I have seen of the Bandhacke. Something like that with a very long (80 cm) handle.

The top one to me looks like a particularly old example of a tool known as a Stichaxt. This tool is used to shape and clean mortises and joint faces and for similar tasks. Modern examples of this tool have no wooden handle on them, and are used more or less like a chisel.

So the top one without a handle in my experience is called a Danish slick.

For precise making of the axe you want, the best would be a drawing with measurements or even better a SketchUp 3D model of an axe.

Maybe you can also take some pictures of the similar axes you work with.

It would be easier to communicate trough email. My email is: logjacob@gmail.com

Here I found some versions of the axe with handle. Should the handle be straight as seen in the photo?

Source: Google.ch "Bilder" (images)
I just went to Google.ch (google Switzerland) and typed in "Bandhacke" and "Bundaxt"
similar results can be had with goole Germany (google.de)

and of course the examples made in Germany, Switzerland, or Austria tend to be very highly decorated as well.

How many axes you will need?

We can make one prototype at the beginning from the measurements that you gave and from the photos.

From what tree you would like to have a handle?

We can make from apple, cherry, ash, oak, maple or any other...

Would you like to have any ornaments on the axe head? Similar to Austrian and German style?


What price (+shipping) you would be ready to pay for an axe?

If the axe you will not like - you could send it back and we will return the money back.

for hewing, a pair would be nice. so 2 is what I would want

Ash or oak for the handle. I believe that ash would be more durable, and in addition would be traditional.

German style ornaments would be nice too. I have an old German goosewing with ornaments on it, it would be nice if these could have similar work on them to match.

There is a company in Austria, Muellar und Soehne, that I can get these axes from, I believe the price I can get them from their American distributer is $180 or something similar to that, with maybe $20 shipping or so. That is the only thing I really have to compare to. Would you be able to make it for less than that? (before shipping)


here is the goosewing's decoration
This tool was either made in Austria or Pennsylvania, and is somewhere in the order of 250 years old. It has a forge-welded blade with an iron (not steel) body. The metallurgy is excellent, and it just about won't rust.
DLB

Hello.

We could make an axe with ornaments and leather seath for 140 $ + 26$ shipping.

If you agree with that axe would be ready in 1,5 weeks and shipped in 1 week.

Jacob

my email: logjacob@gmail.com