Many of you had already met Mr. Bloj from a video that was posted a while ago. In it, he smartly made a couple of wooden hay forks, and everyone agreed that he is a true craftsman, and some wanted to buy his curious hat. In case you missed it, here is the link to the video about the craft of wooden hay forks. But little did we know that Mr. Bloj’s true passion is axe making, which he’s enjoying very much. So when he’s not on shift as a watchman, you will find him forging and hammering metal into different practical tools and utensils, such as axes, hammers, nails, chains, and even furniture.
He is skilled in a range of useful tasks. In essence, he is the jack-of-all-trades. While he had his forks getting smoked over a smoldering fire, he set off to make a strong axe from a leaf spring. He chopped charcoal into fine pieces. Running the burner in a reducing range, he added the charcoal.
With a variety of electric and manual tools, he managed to cut the piece of steel into three main pieces, two smaller pieces that had been welded into the poll, and then the blade was hammered from a larger piece. Then the poll and the blade were welded together. Then he sat down on the shaving horse with a pair of nice old drawknives, inherited from his forefathers, like most of his tools were, and an ash pole that was shaped into a handle in no time at all. When the axe was complete, he proudly pounded a clover stamp on it, which, he said, symbolizes his love of people.
When the axe was complete, nothing could stop Mr. Bloj from chopping up a whole tree with it; that’s how much he enjoyed his new axe. And frankly speaking, the high-strength material and the method of production make this axe truly a cut above the rest.
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