210K views · 1.4K reactions | Fire fighters axe in progress. With the sound on you can hear it tick as it cools and contracts. This one is my half sized version . Should finish out around 3 lbs . A few more tweaks to go … On to carving the handle next . . . . #firefighter #fireaxe #axe #blacksmithing #bladesmithing #frontstepforge #hotmetal #yegmetal | Front Step Forge | Facebook

Usually it’s roses.This year it’s a fire axe for a new Nordic spa last out the door on Christmas Eve. They require a fire axe for building code but didn’t want a conventional one. This one is five pounds of 4140 steel differentially hardened and tempered and mounted on a 30” hickory handle that’s been toasted by the forge flame and had many layers of lindseed oil burnished into it. It’s dressed in its final temper colors. According to a local firefighter fire axes are essentially sharp sledgeham