Mechaxe: titanium alloy axe

[Mecha]

Here is an axe prototype/tester, cut and forged from titanium alloy plate. The cutting edge is heat-treated. The handle is elliptical, and tapers from thin to thick as it approaches the axe head. The entire circumference is filed into a bevel (except under the handle).

OAL is 30.5" with an 8" cutting edge, and a weight of 2 lbs 3 oz, balanced right at the top of the handle. The handle is rubber, nylon, and leather.

This axe worked great, so I will make a finalized version. Probably a little bit thicker and longer.

Before testing:

During testing:

After testing:

Worked great, stayed sharp!

 

[jux t]

Finally, a SCUBA diving axe! Ha. That's really cool, I know next to nothing about titanium and your work with it. How are you able to make a quality axe from it?

 

[Mecha]

Finally, a SCUBA diving axe! Ha. That's really cool, I know next to nothing about titanium and your work with it. How are you able to make a quality axe from it?

HAHA! For viking scuba divers!

Shape the titanium through forging and grinding, then heat treat the cutting edge for more hardness and durability. In use, it's more like steel than you'd think, somewhat lighter and with a different sort of rigid springiness.

This one is sort of an axe-shaped machete, and I'd like to make the finalized version just a but thicker to help with splitting, but still keep it thin for cutting. A convex cutting edge helps keep the axe from sticking in wood too badly even though it's thin.

 

[jbmonkey]

bad arse.

needed the conan music though in the video.

 

[Lapedog]

Here is an axe prototype/tester, cut and forged from titanium alloy plate. The cutting edge is heat-treated. The handle is elliptical, and tapers from thin to thick as it approaches the axe head. The entire circumference is filed into a bevel (except under the handle).

OAL is 30.5" with an 8" cutting edge, and a weight of 2 lbs 3 oz, balanced right at the top of the handle. The handle is rubber, nylon, and leather.

This axe worked great, so I will make a finalized version. Probably a little bit thicker and longer.

Before testing:

During testing:

After testing:

Worked great, stayed sharp!

When Spaceforce USA officially become the Terran Space Marines I know they are going to be hitting you up forntheir blades like crazy!

 

[Mecha]

bad arse.

needed the conan music though in the video.

Future video!

 

[WValtakis]

Future video!

But that music is for the riddle of steel?

 

[Mecha]

But that music is for the riddle of steel?

If it drives ones enemies before him and incites the lamentations of their women, then it qualifies.

 

[ice-pic]

Axchete sounds great to me.
Nice work

 

[sloth357]

I never saw this beast.. wtf.. want. Sam you ok man? I'm just trying to get up to speed here.. I'll message you later once I read through some garbage..

 

[Mecha]

I never saw this beast.. wtf.. want. Sam you ok man? I'm just trying to get up to speed here.. I'll message you later once I read through some garbage..

Beast came and went. It is the basic pattern for the upcoming axes though.

 

[BladeMan]

Wonder were it landed

 

[Mecha]

Wonder were it landed

It landed in a magical land where the woodsmen mountaineers are legendary.

 

[Bigfattyt]

It landed in a magical land where the woodsmen mountaineers are legendary.

Do they work all night and sleep all day???

 

[Mecha]

Do they work all night and sleep all day???

Legend has it that they never sleep.

 

[jbmonkey]

But that music is for the riddle of steel?

used to be. now riddle of titanium. crom has bowed his head in shame from the God of titanium.

 

[KixJake]

"Legend has it that they never sleep."

Sounds like a good premise for a movie.

 

[rainingblades]

legendary weapon!

 

[MyLegsAreOk]

To be honest titanium is light but it is not strong. I wouldn't trust a tool that needed to keep an edge or strike to be made out of it.

 

[Mecha]

To be honest titanium is light but it is not strong. I wouldn't trust a tool that needed to keep an edge or strike to be made out of it.

What makes you think that? Titanium alloys are very strong and resistant to cracking or breaking, and the heat-treated axe blade keeps a nice edge.