![]() Last action: the sharpening on the grinding wheel. And the good smell of fries all over the place even more.Īt the end, the blades were set a while in the oven to temper. The sisseling of the hot metal was just to die for. When the salt melts, it's time to quench. But very effective, nah.Īfter the shaping I made them nice red again and quenched them in vegetal oil. ![]() I didn't have an anvil, but I had some heavy steel profiles hanging around - perfect to use as a kind of 'mold' to hammer the blades into the slight curve I wanted. Use an anvil to hammer the blade into the right shape - flattening one side and making it curved. No matter how you do it, that's the only result you need. The whole setup generated enough heat to burn a tunnel to China in our backyard, and to make the steel blades red hot - tunnel fire, you know. I decided to do it the wild way: some carbon pellets, a transformed dust buster and a very windy day. To shape the blade that way, you definitely need a forge. Curved edges are perfect to remove big chips. I needed a 'digging adze', and therefor a 'curved' blade was the way the go. Flat adze blades are often used instead of planes - the tool, not the thing that flies. Then you'll forge that piece of steel into a gutter-like something.ĭepending on the work you'll do with it, you can leave it just flat, also. If it's one of those great inventions that stood the test of time, it would surely stand the test of my canoe. I thought that, if people are using this tool for thousands of years, it's probably not because it's just beautiful. Neither to my bank account, btw, since the prize of a nice forged adze is always something with 3 digits. So instead of ordering an adze on the big big web, I thought that this kind of lazy behavior wouldn't bring good karma to my project. ![]() ![]() The flat ones are often used to rectify beams, like a huge plane, while the curved ones are used for sculpting and bowl making. Some have curved edges, others flat edges. Later on, forged heads replaced the wooden fork, making the tool more compact and more powerful.ĭuring thousands of years, adzes were standard gear in men's work-caves.Īdzes are beautiful tools. The first adzes were build with natural wooden forks, flintstones and sinew. Projects, in the future.Īdzes are among the oldest tools men ever made. Making it own your own is fun, but making it with a group is much better. Making such a tool sounded like the perfect start for my project - the very first step in the canoe that will bring people together. An adze is like an axe, but with the blade perpendicular to the handle - like a flesh scraper, if you want. There's quite a bit of planning & craftmanship for involved - a lot, in fact - and during my research I learned that one of the have-to's for this project is the adze (dutch: kipkap, french: herminette, german: dechsel). ![]() Making a dugout canoe isn't something you can just do in a few afternoons. If ever you'd see me staring at nothing - don't disturb, I'm thinking about my canoe. It's like one of a few dozen power-safe circuits in my head - something I think about when I just don't want to think about something. Making a dugout canoe is one of those projects that are haunting me for many years. No more duct tape & pvc, but big solid wood. Within some time - once I've got the right log - I'll make another canoe. If you want to make something big, start making the right tools. ![]()
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