I've always found with opinels and other carbon blades that eating a couple of apples and other fruits is more than enough to get a nice patina started. Somehow the image of putting a granny smith on a chopping block and braying it with an axe doesnt seem right though Nice work feller. I hope this is one of the mix that's coming to the meet
I got to try it when my st300 was returned. Nice axe. It also has a new cover now more suited than the brown electricians tape.
Thanks Gareth. I used to belong to a Saxon, Viking and Norman group. It is a copy of an axe from that period (used for kindling) Now the handle is all wrong but it is no longer used for re-enactment.
I used to belong to regia anglorum, although I did a year or two doing boarder reaver at a castle on the Scotish boarder. I believe the period was 15th/16th cent.
Yep. It would. You too?