in this episode our craftsman we're
making a battle-axe and one of the most
important selections to make is actually
the wood for the handle when you're
making an axe which ever way that axe
blade is going you want the grain to run
in line with that if it didn't it have a
greater chance to break against the
grain so once I make sure that the grain
setting into place I need to thin it and
shorten it to make it about the size of
the handle that I want
so once you're at your sander this is
where a lot of that shaping is going to
take place we're gonna use this wheel to
actually come in here and start shaping
the handle into the style that we want
once you've been working on it you get
it to the shape that you like and then
if you're lucky you can take a nice
piece of wood and turn it into something
it looks like this Discovery's master of
arms all new Fridays at 10:00 after gold
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