Here is a bearded axe that my fiance has just finished wood burning.
When it was finished we took it out into the forest and chopped it into some wood.
The axe is a commission for a friend who wanted a Thor theme with a picture of his pet dog on the handle.
You can see Thor's hammer along with an interlocking snake crawling up the handle.
The design goes all the way around the handle with some cool knots on the skinny side.
Here is a detail of Thor's hammer.
Detail of the knot on the skinny side of the handle.
Here is a cool eye above the serpent that winds around the handle.
Now for a few process shots. The design was drawn on the handle with a white pastel pencil.
Once the design was drawn on the handle white areas were wood burned as darker lines.
The first pass of wood burning just finished the outline. Later on more of the shapes were filled in with some spirals.
Thanks for checking out this cool axe :-)
Keren
thanks
Thanks @ewkaw :-)
You're welcome!
She did a very nice job on it :)
It took her ages partially because she had a bunch of classes to take while slowly working on it during her free time.
What an awesome creation. We have worked with wood for many years now and I can say wood burning takes some practice and patience. It's a great hobby though, I have done a few pieces that I was happy with.
Great post, now go chop some wood for the stove will ya. 😄
Yeah this took her forever, we had to get a really fine pointed wood burner to outline the lines correctly. Now that we have the right wood burning equipment I might take a stab at it as I found a clean artist conk shelf fungi.
Really nice work on the handle! She definitely definitely has some talent!
The axe handle was a tough canvas to work with. A flat board would have been way easier but the client wanted a viking themed axe.
That looks great. One of my friend's bought me a wood burning kit for Christmas a year ago. I still haven't finished my first piece! It's a lot harder than it looks.
Yeah its tough keeping the burn in the lines. If you leave the point there too long it starts to burn beyond the boundary.
That is really cool, I like the eye....Much too nice to cut wood with now though..have to buy another axe...lol
The eye was some kind of glue that was painted on first then some gold powder was added to the glue. The guy who commissioned this axe is a collector of martial arts weapons so I'm sure it will just hang on his wall somewhere.