>>2274967Sure, now granted I’m no master wood worker, I have two cousins who are furniture makers who baby sit me for more complicated project Kek. But this is very simple.
The first thing you need to do is get the head off the handle. From factory it’s hydraulically pressed on. You can take a hammer, hold the tomahawk by the handle, and hit the hammer against the butt of the handle. You can also bang the butt of the handle on a flat rock a bunch.
Once you get the handle off you first will want to get it to remove the shoulder made by the hydraulic press and fit the head better. To remove the shoulder you can use a wood file, a belt sander, or careful carve it away. The goal of fitting the head is to make a fit that will hold the head securely when you slide it on and give it a tap against something hard, it shouldn’t slide off when you hold it up right, but you should be able to slide it off. To do this I would recommend using a low grit sandpaper and/or a wood file. Take off a little, see how it fits, take off more. You are looking for visible gaps around the top and bottom of the head, mostly the top, ideally there should be no gaps when you are done, but a few small ones is not the worst. You can use a sharpie and see where the head scrapes it away to see where high spots are.
This all sounds tedious but it’s really just trial and error.
Next step is to remove the lacquer coating from the handle. Lacquer coatings protect the wood well, but are slipper and give you blisters faster. You can sand off the coating, but I prefer scraping, you can use the spine of a knife or the edge perpendicularly, note it may dull the edge pretty fast. Once the coating is, gone with scrapping, I like to use a higher grit sandpaper, just to remove the really rough spots. I would not recommend over sanding, it feels good in hand but is more slippery.
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