StihlNAlberta
ArboristSite Member
I'm wondering about the process of burning an old wooden axe handle out of the axe head. I've just hung a nice old axe head I found in my tool shed, but was initially having a hard time removing the old broken handle portion left in the head. I had a fire going outside so I popped the axe head in the fire and returned the next day to find the axe head was perfectly cleaned out. I went ahead and cleaned it up and re-hung with a new handle ..... Looks great but have I compromised the edge retention of the axe from heating it? Is high carbon tool steel effected by this sort of heating/cooling process?
Any info would be great .....
Any info would be great .....