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viking axe again :)

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I have a freshly forged viking axe to show today.
Has a 11 cm / 4.33 inch long edge. The head itself is 16.5 cm / 6.5 inch long and the shaft 40 cm / 15.75 inch.
It is 740 grams in total with a roughly 500 gram head.

Btw, you can also hunt me down on instagram, as "hellize1"
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Beautiful, I think I might like it better than the first one.
Just don't know, they are both great!
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Love it!!!!! ::tu::
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edge213 wrote:Beautiful, I think I might like it better than the first one.
Just don't know, they are both great!
Thanks a lot! :)
Yeah, they are a bit different. You know how steel is, sometimes it wants to move here sometimes there, so I usually end up with different result when forging.
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Glad you like it! :)
TripleF wrote:Love it!!!!! ::tu::
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Some fantastic photos of a beautiful axe!
Take care and God bless,

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Steve Warden wrote:Some fantastic photos of a beautiful axe!
Thanks! :)
We have crap weather lately with -15 celsius ad a lot of clouds. It took me 3 hours to hunt the perfect 2 minutes down for these shots :D
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hellize wrote:
Steve Warden wrote:Some fantastic photos of a beautiful axe!
Thanks! :)
We have crap weather lately with -15 celsius ad a lot of clouds. It took me 3 hours to hunt the perfect 2 minutes down for these shots :D
Depends on how you define "crap weather." Me, I love 15C plus or minus 2C (60F +/- 5F) and overcast. Don't mind a bit of snow coming down, either!
Take care and God bless,

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Steve Warden wrote:
hellize wrote:
Steve Warden wrote:Some fantastic photos of a beautiful axe!
Thanks! :)
We have crap weather lately with -15 celsius ad a lot of clouds. It took me 3 hours to hunt the perfect 2 minutes down for these shots :D
Depends on how you define "crap weather." Me, I love 15C plus or minus 2C (60F +/- 5F) and overcast. Don't mind a bit of snow coming down, either!
yeah, well, if it goes under 0 celsius, I can't forge weld properly, the hearth doesn't heat up as it should and I also freeze to death in the shop, and if it goes above 25 celsius, I get a stroke next to the forge because of the perfect forge welding temp :D
I know, I know, I whine too much... ::paranoid::
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Another great piece. It is always wonderful to see Csizmar's work... what a creative artist.

Check out this site which features Csizmar's work plus that of dozens of other craftsmen and women, most from Eastern Europe: https://knifeandcraft.com/en/.

Lots of beautiful knives but also other blacksmith work, bone carving, furnaces, knife-making vises, sharpening systems, sheathes and holsters, straight razors, engraving and lots more.

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deo-pa wrote:Another great piece. It is always wonderful to see Csizmar's work... what a creative artist.

Check out this site which features Csizmar's work plus that of dozens of other craftsmen and women, most from Eastern Europe: https://knifeandcraft.com/en/.

Lots of beautiful knives but also other blacksmith work, bone carving, furnaces, knife-making vises, sharpening systems, sheathes and holsters, straight razors, engraving and lots more.

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Thanks a lot! :) Yeah that is also me on there. I think I am the only one from Romania, at the moment :)
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Hey Csizmar, move to Texas, in the summer it get hot enough you don't need a forge. Great work as always. ::nod:: ::nod::
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doglegg wrote:Hey Csizmar, move to Texas, in the summer it get hot enough you don't need a forge. Great work as always. ::nod:: ::nod::
LOL! Not sure what's better, frostbite or sun burn :D
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