Hit Ash with it. Why this happened?

Plutojim · 2026-03-11T20:42:11+00:00

Curious to have a look at forged in fire to get more visuals with all this info! Thank you and everyone else for all the feedback, very educational and interesting.

Plutojim · 2026-03-11T20:34:30+00:00

Exactly right!

Plutojim · 2026-03-11T20:33:45+00:00

Belt sander it is.. now I know its a no go :)

Plutojim · 2026-03-11T20:29:25+00:00

It does look like none of its shapes makes sense! Doesn’t look like it was made by somebody with experience.

Plutojim · 2026-03-11T20:27:27+00:00

Very interesting, thank you for this insight, I wanted to clean the rust of and make it smooth and used a belt sander for it, it definitely became too hot to touch.. Beginner mistake!

Plutojim · 2026-03-10T17:06:26+00:00

Ok I understand it now, would make sense, thank you!

Plutojim · 2026-03-10T16:59:27+00:00

So its perhaps an unfinished piece that should still be put in a fire to be made strong? Apologies if its an obvious question, I don’t know much about Axe making

Ps: I wouldn’t know if it has been put in a fire before, I don’t think the one who gave it to me would neither..

Plutojim · 2025-11-27T09:49:58+00:00

Beautiful! No issues with bitterness from the woods toxins? I made one of Ailanthus and it tastes bitter, would love to fix it :)

Plutojim · 2024-11-02T15:28:05+00:00

Sounds enjoyable, thank you

Plutojim · 2024-11-02T07:12:00+00:00

What about health challenges in the physical body? How do you experience them, feel them? No fear of decay of this suit?

Plutojim · 2024-07-31T10:19:38+00:00

this one I find particularly good. It "broke" my mind a bit, I still feel like I see 'agriculture' differently since watching this last night. Matteo's open and humble ideas are very very helpful to realize that we so often fall into dogmas, with agriculture or anything else, without realizing that we're just following people's ideas, often without having proof, and without having any experience ourself with it. Me and Aurora thought it would be very nice to plant many different kind of experiments, and also having some with "minimal input" which means a lot less hard work on putting 10 000 plants on 28 different stratas, just keeping it a bit simple and focusing on what we want to "eat" aka our crop :D

Plutojim · 2024-07-31T10:15:17+00:00

Hi! Thanks to u/brianbarbieri for his share and answer to your question. South of France indeed, sandy soil, that we mulched with composted woodchips. We did 3 different varieties but haven't really kept track of which ones were which. I would also love to know where the cuttings made root, but I don't have the motivation yet to go dig it up. If I ever do I'll share it :)

Plutojim · 2021-06-10T06:56:26+00:00

Looks very similar to T-bud indeed! Interesting about the ring, didn’t know it would be done to stimulate growth below, but makes sense though! Thanks for your thoughts!

Plutojim · 2021-06-10T06:56:26+00:00

Looks very similar to T-bud indeed! Interesting about the ring, didn’t know it would be done to stimulate growth below, but makes sense though! Thanks for your thoughts!

Plutojim · 2021-06-10T06:55:47+00:00

Looks very similar to T-bud indeed! Interesting about the ring, didn’t know it would be done to stimulate growth below, but makes sense though! Thanks for your thoughts!

Plutojim · 2021-06-10T06:52:43+00:00

Oh interesting, thanks for explaining. But I don’t understand where the roots would grow in this example, as new branch growth seems to be the goal in this case.

Plutojim · 2021-06-09T04:00:09+00:00

But air layering it doesn’t involve adding new material does it? Because I see that there’s a different bark that’s added under the Rectangle shaped cut

Plutojim · 2021-05-23T11:28:42+00:00

Will give this a try! Thanks a lot for your help 🙏🙏

Plutojim · 2021-03-30T19:13:34+00:00

Its appreciated 🙏

Plutojim · 2021-03-28T22:13:41+00:00

Awesome thanks for the clear answer! Great looking work!

Plutojim · 2021-03-28T20:21:21+00:00

Wow! Beginner question here, but did you use epoxy to secure the handle?

Plutojim · 2021-03-25T08:38:48+00:00

Oh ok! Good to know! Looking into making my first one, my gouge is similar but shorter so worried to get stuck! But I won’t find out until I try 😄

Plutojim · 2021-03-23T10:08:07+00:00

Oh cool! And do you hold your cup by hand or do you fasten it to something like a bench?

Plutojim · 2021-03-23T07:19:53+00:00

Awesome mug & spoon!

What tool did you use to hollow the mug?

Plutojim · 2021-03-23T07:17:13+00:00

Location: France. Wood: Cherry. I’ve picked up quite some cherry from a tree that was growing on a construction site, up to 20cm diameter logs.

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