My father-in-law gave me a pickup truck load of fire wood that he wasn’t going to burn, and so I have been using my fire pit more frequently. I only had a big splitting maul (cheap, plastic handle), and a tiny gerber hatchet (also plastic handled), so I decided to get a quality medium sized camping axe that I can use at the wood pile and not so big that I can still take it on car camping trips.
And yesterday my new Council Tool axe came in from Waccamaw Lake, NC. I oiled the whole thing down, and as I was admiring the hickory handle, I wondered why it had taken me this long to get a good axe.
I like to take care of my tools, and owning quality products that can potentially outlast me, helps to keep up the discipline to always use and maintain them as best I can. Thinking back on my grandfather and how his shovel blade would bead up water, and how mine is a more than a little rusty, I admit that I have room for improvement.
Well, time for the next application of boiled linseed oil for the axe handle. It’s going to take a while for that new, dry wood to saturate. I might as well treat some other wood handled tools while I’m at it.
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