Just steam a bend in the otherwise straight handle to one side. The eye has to have have a symetrical shape though, otherwise you need to make 2 hafts anyway. [\QUOTE]
Thx for your reply.
Yes, I have a finger-preserving (double) bend of almost three inches. Yes, the eye is symmetrical, as is the handle.
The Swedes, Latvians, and Norse do it with the same, rotated haft —for *final truing of a hew, or for trimming in an otherwise-finished corner.... to avoid needing *two (handed) axes, left and right.
Just I cannot figure how to sufficiently secure it for anything more than a light swing.
But why would you want to change it? You still need to wedge it, so getting it out again wont be easy. Making a slip fit would work to change a handle though, but I wouldn't use one because of headweight. When it slams down from the handle onto your hands you'll know why!
The Northmen use a slip fit, simply seated by an axial (no pun intended) stumping blow on the handle-end.
Maybe I just need to make a (proud) wedge that’s removed or cam-set; so far, a fail. And an exaggerated ear on the handle.
