How to make an axe handle. from board to handle, band saw tips

check out this it is a let's see six seven eight looks like about a nine foot board hickory check out the green so think of this as an axe handle right so this axe handle here will have 45. this x handle here will have straight grain this handle it's deadly grain look at it this is a wicked board so that's oak or pardon me uh hickory this one here is white oak and i freaking love white oak i don't know why i just do it is a scary piece of wood it's painted you won't see that side but friends i just bought this wood yeah look at look at this white oak these are gonna be wicked freaking axe handles i'm telling you deadly all right it's time so these boards i just i was in the shop the board today and i was like i wonder if they got any hickory rough hickory and i i saw some white oak and i was like whoa the freak the white oak is like i gotta show you this board friends it's like a helicopter right okay look at the grain in that board it's white oak and uh it feels amazing these handles are gonna be crazy i'm excited about this actually let's check this out these are go these handles are going to be craziness there we go right there 30 i think i want let's see so it shouldn't it should be fine i shouldn't need to do anything i see checks there that's fine i'm going 31. 32 is fine it's fine depending on your eye i'm going 30. 31. 31. [Music] okay [Music] [Music] smells like white oak too [Music] wow oh my that saw cats 31 let's do another one okay so 31 inch i love 31. 31's like just it's it's deadly oh i'm so excited that this would look it excuse me look at the grain this is primo wood like premo okay that knife cuts axe handles four five six seven eight nine 10 11 at least 12 handles on that one board are you kidding me oh my goodness four times three so i think i'm just gonna cut 31s that'll be easier [Music] so [Music] i cannot believe that i can't look at yeah i know right i like it oh yeah i did [Music] this knife is sharp friends i mean sharp okay that's it we're done 31 inch handles all the way around three on each that's perfect [Music] [Music] wow honey look at me a carpenter i'm being a carpenter honey so so okay now you're looking at a man who feels like a carpenter bob i'm not a carpenter and i would use the power saw usually doing that stuff but you know what that felt great and what we've got now is about 15 [Music] lucky people 15 very lucky people now this friends come on come on so now now right yeah yeah look here's the deal right trace out your pattern look it that's a killinger handle if i want to trace that one out i will i love this pattern but i've also got a pattern that i really like and it's the palm swell it's different and the curve a little bit different up here look at that prince look at freaking that i'm so stoked i can't tell you yeah i've oh i guess i can turn that off now friends didn't that little bandsaw work dandy didn't it it's freaking like six o'clock or some freaking stupid thing didn't it friends it worked dandy you know it did you know what freaking did [Music] [Music] i'm excited excited yeah um okay friends i'm closing up shop let's do one thing just just let's just do one little thing before we get shot down let's just see something just because we're all a little bit crazy here when it comes to buck and billy ray's youtube channel we all know we are and you can't deny it come on let's just grab a random board right here look at this sucker what do you want to freaking know what do you want to know well well would you look at that it happens to be straight up and freaking down that is the most primo handle you're gonna get right there deadly let's check something out shall we friends knowing me i'll probably because i'm not a good saw operator i'll probably be draw knife in this stuff all the way home the whole gamut i probably will be i guarantee i will be see that's the side that peels right right friends so yeah see that's the peeling side oh yeah you gotta watch that uh [Applause] watch this there's some harper hardwood in here yeah she's working quite nice it's beautiful is what it is i'm not as good as uh some on the draw knife i i'm not there yet um it's coming i'll get there i enjoy working the draw knife see i'm down to i'm down to where it's like close and i haven't drawn any lines friends this is strictly just literally right off the top of my head it is it's right off the top of my head a guy would probably get in with the dr the sander or the but i'll be taking this down with the draw knife all the way i'll bet yeah see this is looking deadly now this is this is this is it look i'll show you so that didn't take too long what was it five we're at 10 minutes now but we started the video oh and you guys can't see that anyway so let's change the light yeah no lines drawn just go right see it's pretty good really and then you got this here see not deadly all right and so it begins all of this starts now but this is actually what gets me going friends all right yes indeed it does that's [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] okay you guys just saw what happened there right yeah now i don't know because i haven't worked with hickory before like this but it could be you could use the key to the bush for this you could use anything there we go that is a big help from draw knifing it just it took five minutes so there we go that's just me playing around friends getting ready to make my first hickory handle out of my my new board i bought but it's getting late and i want to go inside go hang with my family so there's my template right there i love this template i love it it's it's the ones on the uh wood bullet yeah uh i'm really excited right now friends like i mean really excited it sure is fun doing this stuff boy anyway overnight we'll catch you in the morning thanks for watching my videos friends spring is here i feel it i'm a spring baby so i feel it in the air i feel it in the energy let's rock it let's rock it the spring let's spring ahead be kind see you in the next one [Music] all right that's amazing that was the first and the last handle that i sanded in the bunker she's outside now well that's pretty amazing that sanders gonna help out get the custom axe handles made oh yeah baby and that ain't too curvy at all not at all oh it's you know friends i gotta be honest i i like doing this stuff eh i do they got to be special you see so so now i probably just get back into my draw knife there it's all a sawdust right check this out friends friends this is all by eye you you know that right it's it's strictly by eye you're not gonna believe that well of course you will i wouldn't have been doing all this all that long ago you know what i mean yeah i think you do i think you do i think you know darn well what i mean i went and bought a board and i cut it into pieces and i've been dying to do this check out this white oak look at that craziness white oak and this freaking hickory's el nutso it's el nutso yoza don't take for granted that your strap isn't hooked up on something on the other side wow ah so um oh

Channel: Buckin' Billy Ray Smith

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Length: 23min 2sec (1382 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 05 2021