Jspool Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) I'm a beginner at moving steel, but have an extensive background in woodworking.So I thought I would try my hand at making some woodworking tools.First on the list was a small straight adze, next will probably be a curved adze.I used 1 1/8" Cruforge V and a chunk of walnut I had laying around.here are a few shots of my process. Edited July 31, 2015 by Jspool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Welcome aboard J, glad to have you. Well join the club probably the largest demographic of blacksmiths until the internet started recruiting future addicts was the wood guy who wanted THAT special thing but didn't want to spend THAT much on one. Chisels, knives and plane blades are probably the most common "I can make THAT" projects.Once you've experienced the soul deep satisfaction of beating the heck out of a defenseless piece of HOT tool steel you're hooked, no turning back.Enjoy the addiction I do.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jspool Posted July 31, 2015 Author Share Posted July 31, 2015 Thanks Frosty,Li see you're from AK. I lived in Kodiak for 18 years. It's over 90 degrees in Port Orchard WA today. Probably won't fire up the forge. I miss Alaska! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Did you know Reed Oswalt? He's another long time inhabitant of the Rock and does a bit of smithin. I'd like to meet him face to face and Deb hasn't been to the Rock so maybe. I've been there on jobs but that was years ago. I'd like to meet Reed and shake his hand some day and Deb hasn't been out thataway so who knows.Been searingly HOT here too, hit . . . 73f yesterday! 90s on the Peninsula is WAY too hot for the PAC NW.Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Come on down to were you can sometimes use 3 digit CWT for heat! Had a week of 1.0.0 one year and that's straight temp not heat index. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halbrust Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 Thomas, you talking short hundred, or long hundred?I've lived through 1.0.8 on a few occasions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 No one else seemed to notice; probably heat drunk, I guess LOL But if that is a first attempt, DAAAAAAAAANG!! Tht is beautiful! Thanks for sharing and welcome! Scott Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted July 31, 2015 Share Posted July 31, 2015 1 x 112 + 0 + 0 I know such temps send folks in Phoenix scurrying for a sweater and that the Devil won't take anyone from Yuma anymore as he said all they do is sit around and talk about how *nice* the weather is down here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notownkid Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 I go along with Dodge very nice work esp. if it is your first try. I don't like 90F so 108 is way out of my likes just as -25F is in Feb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jspool Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 Thanks guys. It's my first try at an adze. I have made a few knives, and I tried to do a RR spike hawk a few weeks ago with a piece of 52100 welded in for the edge. I totally screwed that one up, especially the weld! I use it to spread epoxy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 It dose look good, lol. I like the organic lines.lgrew up in Az, worked in. 122f, did Ft Benning when it was 90f 90% humidity and Germany when ol Big Ben froze up and went clunk in Londan. Mountain warfair school in the Alps most seriusly sucks for a 17 year old kid from the desert southwest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy seale Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 geeze frosty, why spend 20$ for something when you can make it for 200$??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfootnampa Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 A very beautiful adze! From a purely practical point of view I think you should work toward a deeper socket for the handle on your future adzes. This is very sculptural looking though! It is a tool that could easily be loved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jspool Posted August 1, 2015 Author Share Posted August 1, 2015 (edited) Thanks Bigfoot,i wanted to draw out the cheeks, but when I tried to do so on the air hammer, the drift fullered them longer rather than wider. I have since been told to use a top and bottom fuller, and to do so earlier in the process in order to draw them out. Hopefully I'm more successful with my next attempt. Gotta love the journey! Edited August 1, 2015 by Jspool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeremy k Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 Draw the cheeks out before you do the final eye drifting to size ( but then you will need a bolster block with a radius to match the cheeks so when you drift to the final size for the eye, you do not disturb the cheeks). - Looks good though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted August 1, 2015 Share Posted August 1, 2015 geeze frosty, why spend 20$ for something when you can make it for 200$???I knew you'd understand. . . Where can you get an adze that beautiful for $20 Jimmy?Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Special Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Yeesh. Arizona was the hottest place I was stationed (went on the front porch one morning in Hereford to find it 116 at 10 a.m.) short of Iraq. I still prefer it to Macon in summer.That's a beautiful adze. I love making woodworking tools...(hey, didn't I used to do woodworking a bit? wonder what happened to that addiction...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everything Mac Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 That looks really decent. No "in use" pics? Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikecopXXX Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 if you have a power hammer i'd call you an ex-wood worker:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jspool Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 I have to admit that my "metal" shop has kept me away from my woodworking , but I did work the walnut handle for the adze!In use pics are tough, but I'll ask my daughter to help out with that. The angle of this adze lends it well to be a chop and drawn tool, with one hand on the handle and the other on the aft end of the head at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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