And now the old hatchet also has a new blade guard 🙂 But somehow I feel like I should've swapped the snap button and the rivet… 🤔

The leather is 3 mm veg-tan cowhide from the scrap pile, very stiff and solid. The stitching chisels took some force to get through, so I pierced each layer separately. But the edges took a polish very well! Sewn with linen thread and finished with beeswax, so except for the brass hardware, this piece should be fully compostable.

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First project with the new old hatchet: roughing out a spoon from a scrap of cherry.

Important safety advice: always stay with the blade below the hand holding the work.

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The spoon is taking shape, but after three hours of carving, the podcast queue has run low, my thumb is getting tired from the scissor grip, and the palm of my dominant hand is starting to form a blister… that's what you get for choosing to carve bone dry cherry I guess 🙈 And I still have a long way to go.

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Gestern saß ich so vor mich hinschnitzend im Hackspace auf der Couch, und jemand kam dazu, zeigte auf eines der gebogenen Schnitzmesser (siehe Abbildung oben im Thread), und meinte: "Was, du hast dir tatsächlich eines dieser unschärfbaren Messer gekauft?!"

Irgendwie behielt mein Hirn diesen Satz im Unterbewusstsein. Und während der heutigen Schärf- und Schnitz-Session kam dann ganz leise der passende Ohrwurm dazu.

Ich führ' die Waffen, für die es keinen Wasserstein gibt.