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This is footage from a hewing workshop I did back in 2019. The workshop was held at the Museum for Older Techniques in Grimbergen, Belgium, and lead by instructor Robbie Goris. Hewing is het proces of using axes to turn a cilindrical tree into a square beam ready to recieve its joinery to fit into a timberframe. I try to do workshops whenever I get the opportunity to practice my axemanship. During this workshop I tested some of my recent axe acquisitions for the first time. The behemoth of a French, 5 kilograms hewing axe and my beautiful 2,3 kilograms Belgian old style hewing axe. The German broad axe a had used before and it works spledidly. The Belgian old style hewing axe performed suboptimal because of how I ground it. It had apple seed shaped bevels like you see on felling axes, but this caused the axe to glance off the furface of the wood regularly. Being a finishing axe it doesn't need the apple seed shape for strenght like a felling axe wood. I ground the bevels flat after this workshop and it wa
