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Old 06-04-2003, 12:14 PM
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Viking axe for IITH

This is my project, it's going to Sweany. I put it on the Junkyard Contest yahoo site, figure a few folks there might like it too. Wrought iron body, low grade stuff with lots of slag but it works. Pattern welded bit, bandsaw blade and iron strapping. The layers show up well on the closeup photo. Suede handle wrap and sheath, hickory handle, held in with hickory wedge and 2 small copper rivits. Side profile is based on one of the three axes from Mastermyr, although the top view would be different.

I'm not seeing the pictures on the preview, anyone who has a yahoo account can see them at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/junkyardcontest/ at the end of the list of photos there. Maybe someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong here? It's the first time I've tried to post a photo.

[edited] ok, how about now? Thanks Wild Rose and Jamey Saunders!




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Old 06-04-2003, 12:49 PM
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Unfortunately Yahoo does not allow links to or from outside sites.
Go to the Compter Center here on CKD and follow the instructions in the second sticky by Jamey Saunders. He's offering a free image hosting service for CKDers.

Hey even Sweany figured it out so it can't be that hard! (couldn't help myself)


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Old 06-04-2003, 02:21 PM
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nice axe, I think I know some reenactors who would like to be armed like that;

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Old 06-04-2003, 02:46 PM
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Glad to be of help.

I guess other than that all can say is - Odin Rules!


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Old 06-04-2003, 02:54 PM
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Yeah what Chuck said


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Old 06-04-2003, 03:13 PM
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Well if I hear about a bersker from Oklahoma on the news I'll know who it is!


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Nice! You ought to post that over at www.axeforum.com.


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Old 06-09-2003, 11:46 AM
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Don/Krag, thanks for the link, I put the pics up there just now.
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Old 06-09-2003, 12:35 PM
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Hey Michael,

Nice Axe... where'd you get the wrought iron?

Anyone know what the Norse protocol was for fastening handles to axes?

...Oh, and what Chuck and Sweany said.

...although I'm more partial to Frey.


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Old 06-09-2003, 02:26 PM
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Letting Sweany loose with that axe is a bad idea!

Excellent work.

Jon, when you say protocol do you mean to ask whether the head was held by pins, wedges or just friction? If so I think the answer is either wedges or friction depending on the axe. Some heads have been found with a taper suggesting they were slid up the haft and would stay there by centrifugal force (possibly) and others have the reverse taper so they'd need to be wedged or lost.....I haven't seen any complete axe heads with pin holes like you see on some modern axes.

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Old 06-10-2003, 11:50 AM
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Jon, the wrought iron was a bar that was originally used in attaching a brick chimney to the wooden rafters in a house, as I understand it. The bar was a brick high, about 3/8 inch thick, and probably 3 ft long if streched out but it was recognizable as a chimney part because of the shape. Kind of like a letter 'U' but wider at the bottom of the U than tall, and with the top end of each side of the U curled over to point down.

I tried an ascii shape but the spacing doesn't carry over well.

I found the bar in a junk shop, recognized it as wrought because one end was rusted down a slag seam, got it for $2. There's still enough to make a couple more axes, once I get the time. Since then I have found a pair more, at a flea market, but half as wide. They are also wrought iron and were a dollar each. I just beat a guy who was going to buy them to make a junk sculpture, don't know what I'm going to make but glad that I rescued them for a more noble purpose.
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Actually I'm really more partial to Thor than Odin. That is one bad ass hammer he totes.

re mounting hafts: Like Roger said, whether tapered or reverse tapered. A couple of smaller originals I got a close look at some while back were made just like American Tomahawks with a taper. In fact they were real close in size (about 7" edge to back of poll and a 4" cutting edge) and shaped a lot like the upswept style hawks.

Also I found the following link to an English manufactory that claims to be the world's sole source of real wrought iron. http://www.realwroughtiron.com/

Do you know anything about these guys Roger? Any info would be appreciated.


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