The D-adze doesn't quite have the same global popularity among native cultures as an elbow adze.
In the Pacific Northwest, it's more common in the south (Coast Salish & Muckleshoot, for examples)
than it is further north with the mainland Tlingit or the Haida.
I used flat sawn, 6/4 (37mm?) birch and the pattern from Kestrel Tool. Believed that I needed to try to make
some handles before I bought the blade. Power miter saw for length, band saw for blade seat & perimeter,
drill press & Forstners for the hand hole and whipping notch, scroll saw to clean up the hand hole.
I make my own little cabinet scrapers from the wide steel lumber strapping band material.
Excellent job to smooth the flat faces.
I guess somebody who was really good with a scroll saw could do all of this.
I need a 7/8" blank for the hand grip to fit my hands. One stop cut on each side and carved back to the depth of the cut.
The Helix snail is a reminder of my general carving speed.
No pix of the whipping process, I had my hands full holding tension on the #18 tarred seine cord.
All up, the adze weighs 22oz/650g. That's OK to swing if you're accustomed to mallet & gouge carving.
The blade is flat, radiused and carving sharp at about 30 degrees. Not much room for honing.
After less than 6 hrs use, the adze is a dream to use for flatting wood, shaping convex surfaces.
Striking at my heart rate, it was really easy work in western red cedar and birch.
I doubt if you need to build one but making handles and buying blades only is a good way to go.
Nope. Software automixes the images. Not my problem.
In the Pacific Northwest, it's more common in the south (Coast Salish & Muckleshoot, for examples)
than it is further north with the mainland Tlingit or the Haida.
I used flat sawn, 6/4 (37mm?) birch and the pattern from Kestrel Tool. Believed that I needed to try to make
some handles before I bought the blade. Power miter saw for length, band saw for blade seat & perimeter,
drill press & Forstners for the hand hole and whipping notch, scroll saw to clean up the hand hole.
I make my own little cabinet scrapers from the wide steel lumber strapping band material.
Excellent job to smooth the flat faces.
I guess somebody who was really good with a scroll saw could do all of this.
I need a 7/8" blank for the hand grip to fit my hands. One stop cut on each side and carved back to the depth of the cut.
The Helix snail is a reminder of my general carving speed.
No pix of the whipping process, I had my hands full holding tension on the #18 tarred seine cord.
All up, the adze weighs 22oz/650g. That's OK to swing if you're accustomed to mallet & gouge carving.
The blade is flat, radiused and carving sharp at about 30 degrees. Not much room for honing.
After less than 6 hrs use, the adze is a dream to use for flatting wood, shaping convex surfaces.
Striking at my heart rate, it was really easy work in western red cedar and birch.
I doubt if you need to build one but making handles and buying blades only is a good way to go.
Nope. Software automixes the images. Not my problem.
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