Making Custom Axe Handles
€139.00 €116.81
per piece
Course details
- Introduction to the different handle shapes
- Brief overview of suitable wood species
- Selecting the right handle shape to match the type of axe and its intended use
- Removing the old handle
- Laying out the chosen handle on an ash board, taking the grain direction into account
- Cutting out the blank using a jigsaw and bandsaw
- Fitting the blank to the axe eye
- Shaping the grip with a drawknife, hand plane and rasp
- Cutting the kerf for the wedge on the bandsaw and making a matching hardwood wedge
- Rehandling
- Finishing the surface with natural oils
Instructor
Boat builder Matthias Freymadl learned his craft in a boatyard on Lake Chiem in Bavaria. He graduated from the Academy of Design & Crafts in Munich with a Master Award. Matthias has been working at Dictum for several years.
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A mere 10 minutes drive from our company headquarters in Plattling, it is situated idyllically between the river Danube and the Natural Reserve Bavarian Forest and offers ideal conditions for undisturbed creative work.
The former stable of the Monastery Niederalteich is optimally equipped with
- Bench room,
- Turning workshop,
- Sharpening room,
- Machine room,
- Kitchen and Sanitary rooms.
DICTUM-Kurswerkstatt
St. Ursulaweg 19
94557 Niederalteich
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Niederalteich
St. Ursula-Weg 19, 94557 Niederalteich,
DICTUM-Parkplätze - Mauritiushof 2
