Finally a day off from photoshoots in the city. Only slept 6 hours in the last two days so I spent an hour or two saturday sharpening up my new axe. I’m not sure if you can tell… but I’m in love… I mean.. IN LOVE with this axe! It’s actually interesting if you look at the edge from the beginning of this post to where I am now with it. I’m always stunned that these delicate stones can actually remove deep grind marks and almost leaves a mirror finish. Who wants to buy me an 8000-10000 grit stone? I’ll make a sharpening how to video for ya in return!

 It’s no where near finished but I swear to you, out of all of my axes this is the sharpest edge I’ve been able stone in. I actually was nervous to use it afterwords.. that’s rare. I also filmed some video of the applewood bowl I was working on and started another kuksa. The downside of sharpening with a brand new unfinished helve…. the wood wears whatever lands on your hands. So to get this finish, sharpen on wetstones, make sure you rub enough ‘slurry’ into the grain. The slurry consists of the material the stones are made from and steel that was sacrificed from the axe. I didn’t do this intentionally but it does kind of look cool. Almost ages it all the way back to the 10th century where it came from. Here is photographs of the beautiful ole gal: [don’t mind the cell phone shots, didn’t feel like getting the big boy camera out] It’s nice to see the contrasting colors of shooting in the shade/shooting in sunset light…