Forging a Hewing Broad Axe with Shawn James and Toronto Blacksmith's Paul Krzyszkowski

Description

I visit the blacksmith shop of Paul Krzyszoski (Toronto Blacksmith) to watch him forge me a hewing axe (Viking broad axe style) for some upcoming timber frame building projects at my wilderness homestead (at the log cabin in the forest). The biggest project this year will be the workshop, which I plan to build using timber framing techniques combine with log cabin building and stone masonry. I'm considering making at least one wall cordwood with sawdust and concrete and the remaining walls; squared timbers (which I'll do with the hewing axe). All of this will sit on a field stone foundation. I may build the woodshop on top of the stone cellar since the cellar will be mostly underground and can essentially function as the basement of the shop. I'm not sure about this yet as I need to excavate the ground by hand once the snow melts to see how deep the bedrock is and how difficult it is to dig in the rocky soil.

Paul does awesome work, forging axes, adzes, log dogs and other timber framing tools.

Link to Toronto Blacksmith/Paul Krzyzowski's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcKG-aHNOzWG8scZ64Hpkwg

and website: http://www.torontoblacksmith.com/

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Barrie, Ontario

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Video Transcription

Hi everybody, Shawn James here from My Self Reliance. Welcome to the cabin!

I wanted to talk quickly about this axe that Toronto Blacksmith forged for me a few weeks ago, back in February or late January. I went down to his shop, west of Toronto and he made this hewing axe for me for an upcoming project.

Well, for a bunch of work that I am doing here on the next cabin workshop. And, he offered to make that for me so I went down and filmed the process. I spent a day with him, while he forged this in his shop and it was quite a learning experience. It was very cool.

So, check this video out and I hope you enjoy it and I hope you learn something, like I did.