“Primitive” shop making punched eye axe

[stevomiller]

I hate using that term, it’s amazing what these guys do, this shops in Cambodia.

Big piece of shafting for an anvil, and multiple fixtures made by driving spikes into a large piece of timber to hold the axe head for finish work since they don’t have a vise. Hammers, chisels, drifts and a angle grinder (seems everyone has one these, the Nepalese kukri smiths wield them like a precision tool).

Cambodian Smiths  forging punched eye axe heads.

[Glenn]

Bracket and wedge vise parts

In use

 

4 pins and using the ax head as the wedge. Wood only used to make the fit snug.

 

Bracket on the side of the bench to hold the as head

[KLO]

these, although unsafe are excellent ideas for me