Handmade Carving Adze
Heavy & Light Duty
Large Crossgrain
Bowl and Mask Carving
We support the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in British Columbia.
Carving Adze
A set of hand tools for roughing and carving. The adze has a 2 inch cross grain (lipped) edge, 5/16 inch thick hand forged carbon head saw steel blade on a 15 inch apple wood handle. The hook knife has a 6 inch double beveled full hooked blade hand forged from high carbon lumber mill saw blade on a 10 inch apple wood handle. Use both hands on the knife’s handle for control.
Visit our Heavy Duty Draw Knives page.
The steel is cut and forged from 6 foot and 5 foot diameter head saw blades. The saw blades we collected 20 years ago from local lumber mills. We forge spring steel adze blades recovering 5160 spring steel from older auto wrecks.
We differentially temper keeping the edge hard and strong and the length tempered tough. Hardening and then blending tempers is a differential temper. The adze cut through tough knots.
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Carving Adze Image Gallery
Lighter Adze forged from 3/16” - 1/4” high carbon saw blade steel stock
Carving Adze Prices:
3/16 - 1/4” thick Woodcarving adze blades. 10 - 17 inch long handles
- 1 inch, $1525
- 1 1/2 inch, $1675
- 2 inch, $1800
- 2 1/2 inch, $2000
Heavy Duty Carving Adze Image Gallery
The bigger heavier duty adze are hand forged from 5/16 - 1/2 inch spring steel. Hardwood handles up to 2 feet long.
Big Heavy duty adze Prices:
1/2 inch thick spring steel blades, handles for two hands, 18 - 24 inches.
- 2 1/2 inch, $2550
- 3 inch , $2750
- 3 1/2 inch, $2950
Corner Adze
2 inch, $2000
3 inch, $2300
3 1/2, $2500
*All prices are in Canadian dollars.
Woodcarving Sets
50mm edge adze, 400mm handle. 150mm hook knife blade, 425mm handle. Both have apple wood handles, or
2” edge adze, 15”apple wood handle, $675. 6” full hook, 16” apple wood handle.
If you don’t see what need, send us a line drawing to caribooblades@xplornet.com
Some links to the tools in the carving sets in the galleries above.