An Adze out of the shop...

[KYBOY]

We finished this Adze head today..Mild steel body with a welded on 1075 bit..Cuts nicely..

[oakwoodironworks]

I really like the adz!! I looked for one for a while before I made one for myself. Used it to carve a dough bowl. After forging mine, I decided that I liked blacksmithing more than woodworking and have been forging ever since. Keep up the good work. Always look forward to your posts of your axes, tomahawks, etc.

[ThomasPowers]

I know a number of folks who got started in smithing doing specialized tools for their woodworking and ended up smiths instead! One fellow was a bowl turner and wanted some specialized curved shaft tools designed to hold carbide lathe inserts. So I invite him over, take a piece of stock and heat it up and stick the hot end in the vise and tell him to "grab the cold end and bend it to suit himself"---"oops too far!" "So bend it back..." "Perfect". We let it cool and next weekend he bought an anvil from me and started to build his own forge.

[Frosty]

Nice work KY, nothing less than we've come to expect.

Oakwoodironworks: As Thomas says wood workers coming to the dark side and smithing instead is a pretty common story. I know several guys who just needed one special tool, usually a blade, chisel, carving knife, etc. and the next thing I knew they were blacksmithing.

It's a nice addiction as addictions go.

Frosty The Lucky.

[Steve Sells]

Nice work again !. its nice to see the woodsmen coming into the forge, this way seems much safer than when the blacksmith decides to get his own wood, RIght Frosty ;)