So, for a start, we will need an ax myself. It's the most important. I bought a blade on the flea market at one grandfather (I don't remember exactly, but it seems the price was about 50 rubles). When I brought it to the workshop, I immediately put on the leaf and broke the marker. At the very leaf, I have already tried forms and thought over the bends. As a result, I came up with the opinion that it is better to make a blade with a recess.
The advantages of such a decision are obvious, this is a reduced weight and aesthetics of such a choice.
Important: Before cutting the cutting edge (if you need it) - make sure that the ax is not compounded parts.
Sometimes the hood at the ax is made of softer steel, and the cutting edge is more good. It is easy to make suitability for changing the ax simply - if the spark on all blades is the same, the ax consists entirely of homogeneous steel.
Place the marker on the blades of our drawing from the leaf.
Bulgarian I made draft cuts.
IMPORTANT: Do not overheat steel, water water all the time, and avoid breaking colors. Alas, it does not always succeed. After I spill the biggest pieces with a grinder, a petal disk on the ESM and a semicircular file is in the case.
Now turn to display the descent and polish.
I was doing the descents with a file, and then grinding the ears with a petal disc. Also simply, reading the entire surface with a petal disc with 40 grit, I took a drill and a nozzle with Velcro. Then I began to grind, ranging from 40 grit, finishing 1200grit. Then I finish the fooling circle and paste GOO-2.
Hair shaves, it means sharp well.))
Next to the queue: Squeezing and the manufacture of the Topor.
I will not tell a lot about the Tophoris, I will only say that it is easier to buy a finished workpiece and transferred to itself. It is already dried in the right way and is great. I crushed with three wedges, on PVA glue. (This is quite enough, and fans of epoxy resin and gauze go forest).
Stripes from the hacksaw then stuck too.
It remains only to cover the verse.
Here is the finish, to complete the turnout of the Toponiste with a jute cord I soaring twice the PVA. It turned out securely and convenient. (Although the winding is more for aesthetics)
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