John Martin Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 (edited) Well, I still need to wirebrush the head and then beeswax it. I've rough cut the handle and will sand and re-stain and re-burn tomorrow if I have time. It's a leaf spring, welded together. Somebody please lemme know how to post dimensions for a hatchet. Blade Length: 5" (Sharp part)Bit Height: 2" Blade Height: 1.5" Eye Length: 2" Width: 1.25" Handle: 13" From top of the hatchet to the bottom Hand made wedge. Head weight: 1lb 4oz Overall weight about 1lb 9oz. Light hatchet, but this thing is a worker. My brother put it through it's courses today. Lol. It's also a real nice throwing ax??? I can always get it to stick. Annealed Twiced. Then hardened 1.5" up from the start of the blade. Tempered at 470F for 30minutes and then 510 for 45minutes. This was a rush job, the whole thing, got up at 6am, got it down by noon. We were going to our land at 1, and I wanted to have it down by then. I think it's a good job for being rushed and for this being my first hatchet ever. The welding was pretty easy on this one, I've heard a lot of people having problems when welding it around apipe or drift or whatever, I didn't have much trouble. Yes, I didn't weld the edges real good, but it was a quickie. my brother used an exacto knife to put those things in the handle think there like lotr runes?? Be as harsh as you all want!!! Best regards, John Edited November 3, 2008 by m_brothers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donnie Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Looking good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Martin Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Thanks donnie, any questions or things to do or not to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnr Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Good start there John! Looking pretty nice. You may want to spread the edge a bit more on the next one to give you more cutting edge. Finnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentin Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 not bad john...its Quentin, i got your voicemail at 630 this morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Martin Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Lol, thanks. I'll call you later, I have off this week, and we should do some forging, like maybe have you come over on friday??? I got A FULL weld on this one, just didn't mess with the edges. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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