Jon Buescher
Well-Known Member
I’ve made several wrapped eye axes successfully and had some failures along the way. I’ve been watching YouTube a lot over the last couple years (sorry @EdCaffreyMS I know how you feel about YouTube experts.) I spent some time looking for drifts and such to make a traditional style axe/hatchet and whooooowiiiieee! They $pendy!!! So I went to Sun Rental in Walla Walla and got a smallish jack hammer bit that was shaped like a meat tenderizer hammed, 2” cube on the end. Forged it out into an axe eye drift that fits this 26” axe handle then punched this axe eye and started drifting the eye, I am going to split the bit at the end and forge weld A 1084 bit from some .270x2” stock. Looking for feedback here so start yelling!