This is just too cool to not show you guys !

Pallet Pete said:

Pete

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Wicked Cool!
The music, not so wicked cool...

Nice, the guy has some skills.

That is cool. That guy is awesome.

What a lost art. Such a shame.

Thanks for sharing

Wow in under 5 minutes too.

The homemade wooden low vise/clamp he used seem pretty useful.

Impressive, but I think if I break a handle I will run down to the hardware store....that video made me too tired!

What? How come he didnt use any pallets?

well fellas -

its not a lost art. all the the tools and techniques that he used are employed in bowmaking. if you can make a longbow from a tree trunk (i mean one that actually shoots arrows) an axe handle is a piece of cake. i hand made replacement handles for my tomahawks for years, experimenting with all kinds of wood. only hickory stands up to repeated punishment.

and yes its a cool video. thanks for posting it pallet pete.

Axe/hatchet,other tool handles are a piece of cake with several sharp drawknifes,a spokeshave or two,cabinet scraper (either a commercial one or homemade one from a worn out vintage handsaw blade.Been using these wonderful tools since I was 15 yrs old.You develop lots more patience as you get older.....

Benches,chairs other furniture are more complex & take more thinking time....

Think I'll just make a handle real quick before I chop wood. Amazing and I think the music is great as well.

Nice. I appreciate when others can do stuff that I cannot. I appreciate alot of people in fact.

MasterMech said:

I got's a sneaky suspicion that handle took a little longer than 4:22 to make.

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Guessing he's made about a thousand of these.

But how did he make the first axe?

There are several local gentlemen who still hand hew beams. One does it at harvest shows, the others are all local Amish. It's fun to learn about how things used to be done.

I had no idea Chuck Norris was a traditional woodworker