Need a cover for my Axe!

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Laugh if you want, but I use Nutrogena (sp) hand cream on my leather goods, and it works really well

[Benner]

Oh dear 

[Neil]

Well I suppose his leather goods are normally rubbing up against his skin, so it makes sense really

[John]

During the 80's I used vegetable oil until one day I came home and found my Dobe chomping on one of my knife sheaths he must of thought ahh! beef jerky yummy!   alas now I use waproo's jay-el beeswax dressing but I only use this because it came with my Aus snake whip

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Well I suppose his leather goods are normally rubbing up against his skin, so it makes sense really

Takes one, to know one

[Neil]

Well I suppose his leather goods are normally rubbing up against his skin, so it makes sense really

Takes one, to know one

I'm a synthetic kind of guy

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Well I suppose his leather goods are normally rubbing up against his skin, so it makes sense really

Takes one, to know one

I'm a synthetic kind of guy

Yeah but being a tree hugger, I'll put up with a bit a chaffing rather than go down the icky synthetic route

[Sparky415]

You lot have really lowered the tone of this thread! 


Any one use Vaseline?

[nuphoria]

Oh yeah, like that's gonna help 

[Sparky415]

I'm optimistic 

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

You lot have really lowered the tone of this thread! 


Any one use Vaseline?

I'm fairly sure Dave (spork) does

[Chako]

I like neat’s-foot oil. Sometimes, I will use saddle soap.

<---Thinks axe sheaths needs some decorative tooling.

[Sparky415]

Chako, My axe is not posh enough for tooling

Looking around the house I have either...

Baby oil
Barbour coat waterproofing (a bit like vaseline)
Vaseline (for car battery terminals honest)
wonder where I can get some saddle soap? (local S&M shop?)

[Chako]

wonder where I can get some saddle soap? (local S&M shop?)

I get mine from farm suppliers, and equestrian shops. 

[Gareth]

Where about are you mate?  You might have a horse tack shop somewhere nearby.  Saddle soap certainly is good stuff, but I'm not sure it's going to be worth to much time and effort just for one axe cover.  I'm sure you could find it on ebay, Amazon or other on-line shops.

BTW I'll just add that even Ray Mears just uses boot polish on his axe covers so I don't think you can go to far wrong.

[Sparky415]

I will check out the horses (my mind must be in the gutter)
I have the axe cover, leatherman sheath and my new zippo cover (even tho I don't smoke)
I'm thinking that there will be more leather goods on the way 

[specialist]

http://www.vipukirves.fi/kuvagalleria/pages/Vipukirves_3.htm   

[Sparky415]

Mine's yellow mate 

And mine will fit in a backpack 

[jzmtl]

Inspired by this thread, I finally made a cover for my hatchet. It was made from scrape from strop so the strap had to be made from nylon, the whole thing is waxed so it's waterproof and maintenance free. Still have some scraps, so going to make one for fiskars next.

[Gareth]

That looks like a good job mate.

[jzmtl]

Thanks, the strap ended up 0.5CM too long so it's a bit loose, oh well live and learn.

Never knew how abrasive leather is too, used my opinel to shape it and it was dulled within minutes.

[Mike, Lord of the Spammers!]

Nice bit of recycling mate

[Sparky415]

That looks like a good bit of leather
Nice job