Quote Originally Posted by PiobBear View Post
Here's mine:





It's plate steel (16 ga., I think...I'll try to check that for you) cut out with a steel-cutting blade in a jig saw, finished on a grinder and with hand files, and riveted onto an 8' pine shaft, using nails for rivets peened over washers for roves. Steel's treated with sulfuric acid, then salt water, then burnished with 000 steel wool and oil. Total cost was about $15.00.
That's sweet! Too much work for me... but very nice!

Quote Originally Posted by Riverkilt View Post
A guy tried to sell me William Wallace's Lochabar Axe.

I looked it over, but it just seemed too new.

The guy said it had had three new shafts and two new blades, but it was William Walllace's Lochabar Axe....


Ron
If you bought that, Ron, I have a bridge in Sterling that I'd like to sell you...