Having a Black Locust try and take out the old Cummins, I thought I'd try my hand at wood work. Get some revenge on that Locust...
What I started out with... One knot slipped by!
After a bunch of random cutting with the band saw... I didn't take a picture of the rough cut. It was a mess...
I took Scott's advice, and made a draw knife. I used a broken hack saw blade, and put a edge on it with the bench grinder. I had made something like this before, but it was for scraping...
After getting rough shape into it. The draw knife worked great!
What it looked like when I called it a night. I added a bit more of a heel to it.
That is where it is at, and where it will stay until it drys out more. I have never done this sorta stuff before. I normally work with metal. Done plenty of framing, but never shaping wood. the shape was simply going off of what I picture in my mind as the shape a hammer should be. Funny how I can do this, but couldn't draw it to save my life...
Better pictures tomorrow!