I've finished two long overdue projects this weekend. One is a longbow that I've been working on for the last month. It's a 69'' red oak bow with a draw weight of 60#. This bow was entirely crafted from hand tools. 60 pounds of force is enough to kill any large game on the north american continent, I shall use it this autumn to take down some deer. Or at least I hope I'll be hunting this fall if I'm not bogged down with coding interfaces for Increment 2.
The second big project is a hand forged steel axe. The axe is mild steel that I tempered and then quenched. The axe head was forged about 8 months ago from an old rail spike with wood charcoal providing the carbon. I just never had the time to mount the axehead on a handle until now. The handle is made of oak which had been carved and polished with hand tools.
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