There’s Nothing Remotely Functional About An Axe Handle Made Of Gummy Bears

There’s Nothing Remotely Functional About An Axe Handle Made Of Gummy Bears

Video: There’s no end to the impressive stuff handy YouTubers will make out of wood, metal and plastic. Peter Brown, however, favours unorthodox building materials.

Crayons, he’s found, are a reasonable substitute for clay. In lieu of plastic, he’s turned hardened milk on a lathe with less successful results. (He tells us he subsequently set on fire out of frustration.) In his most recent build video, Brown decided to restore a rusty old axe with a few minor adjustments. The axe head gets a fairly traditional cleaning: A vinegar bath and some elbow grease to take the rust off, followed by a resharpening on a bench grinder. Then, instead of wood, he recreates the handle out of epoxy and gummy bears.

Does that make the tool brittle and deeply unsafe to use? Oh, absolutely. No sane person would swing a sharp heavy thing held in place by snacks. But that’s just the cure the oh-so-serious craftsman video genre needed, and the handle is surprisingly beautiful to boot.


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