![]() ![]() I often go as far as carving finger grips on the under side of the grip. This adze handle is about eight inches long, pretty typical and carved from alder (a “soft hardwood”). The handle is carved from hard wood such as yew, maple, alder, madrona, etc.Īn adze handle can be embellished by carving various animal, or bird heads, canoe prows, etc. The blade can be attached to the handle with screws, bolts, lashed with seine twine, or any combination of these. The main bevel is on the under side and has a five degree micro bevel on the top. The crowned side of the spring is hard while the other side is soft and that is the side the bevel is on, allowing the cutting edge to be on the hard side. Leaf spring can be used, but the spring must be heated and hammered to reverse the crown. The blade is made from 1/4 inch flat carbon steel about one and a half inches wide and six inches long. This type of adze is handy for light shaping and texture adzing. It is between six and a half to seven or eight inches long and an inch and a quarter thick, depending on the size of the carver’s hand. The handle is made from hard wood such as alder, yew, maple, etc. It can be attached with screws, bolts, or lashed with seine twine, or any combination thereof. The blade is around an inch and a half wide at the handle, but can be wider at the cutting edge and can protrude from the handle no more than an inch and a half. Unlike using the elbow adze, the wrist is kept stiff and all the action is from the carver’s elbow. ![]() The blade is fashioned from an axe blade with most of the bevel on the bottom and with a slight micro bevel on the top. This type of adze is used for rough carving and texture adzing. The blade can be attached and fastened with bolts, glued and wrapped with seine twine, or held on with a hose clamp (not a bad idea when one is unfamiliar with the use of this type of tool as the blade can be adjusted for best results). The handle should be gripped firmly with the thumb on top, keeping the wrist loose. The angle of the blade to the carver’s index finger should be 90 degrees, as in the Shaping Adze. The bevel is on the outside of the blade, which is also about five to six inches long and like the shaping adze blade there is a five degree micro bevel on the opposite side.Ī good handle length is around twelve inches. The handle is thinned down to allow some spring when a stroke is made. Alder is not the best for this adze type, but rather yew, or maple. The handle is made from the natural crook of a tree. This type of adze is for doing fine surface texture as aesthetic feature. This becomes apparent when using the elbow adze in the proper manner, which calls for the carver’s elbow to be held against the side of the body, with the action being all in the wrist. The angle of the blade to the carver’s index finger of 90 degrees is very important. The blade is five to six inches long and can be attached with bolts, or glued with epoxy and wrapped with seine twine.Ī good length for the handle is twelve inches. The outside face has a five degree micro bevel at the cutting edge and acts as reinforcement when the blade hits the material to be carved. Western red alder seems to have the ideal angle compared to other tree species and the more abundant good handles per tree.
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