BigAdam
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Afternoon,
You ever had one of those ideas of "I'll make it out of X, that will be a GREAT idea!" then regret it after a day?
Well, thats how I see this going. With that said, pictures and information.
Borderlands 2 - Kreig Buzz Axe - A Slow Build.
A little while back, Gearbox released the trailer for a new character called Krieg. A mass of insane meat with an axe.
Krieg: A Meat Bicycle Built for Two - YouTube
Seeing this, I thought he had a cool axe and started picking apart the video for ideas of scale (borderlands human shapes are weird, giant hands, so its hard to get a bead on at times). Also had a nice reference in the from ;
With half an idea of what I was doing, no money, and a van. I headed out to "acquire" a shipping pallet for some wood. Also used the pallet to make half a table, some bits to space the welder on the trolly, and rebuild a ladder.
I got a basic idea of how I wanted the handle to be, I tried tracing it off an image but it didn't really look right (I'm not going for 100% accurate, as it would drive me insane).
Instead, I did round about shape I wanted to some card, cut it out and tweaked it, then transferred it to wood. Then spent a few afternoons on the belt sander rounding it all off. Its not great, but it fits my spongy hands;
Was around this time, I got a call from my nan to paint her fences. During which she gave me a bench grinder her son / my uncle had left with her.
This bench grinder, its a fine enough thing, but the parts that hold the stones are utter rubbish and let the stones run at a silly huge run out (5-10mm of run out, as the nuts used are also garbage). So I need to make some new ones, I decided to make them out of 7mm thick steel.
What does this have to do with this build?
Why order two different thicknesses of metal, when I can order one! My genius brain decided that making the metal parts of the axe from 7mm mild steel, same as the parts to hold the stones in the grinder. While ordering, the place also had 150mm x 15mm thick metal discs. I need to make a blade, I'll pick one of them up too.
Metal turns up, I also borrowed some staining wax from my father to take the bright wood down to a darker colour. Tested a few bits with cardboard to make sure they seemed about right.
Fast forward to today, 3 hours of grinding, swearing, filing, and more swearing. I have one bit done.
Going to use that one bit, copy it over to another bit of steel to make the other side. The lower ... neck(?) I think I might weld up as its got a lot of bends. Planning on doing a brake drum forge to get the heat into the metal to bend it. As 7mm does not like being bent.
Few bits are WAY off model. But every image I look at is slightly different. Some parts hug around the axe, others just end, some are sharp, some are round. So I'm working on the idea of this being made by a nut of a man on a dust ball of a planet while screaming about having the shiniest meat bicycle, AKA artist license.
I know I need to cut that top spike back. Not sure what I was thinking when doing that. Only needs tweaking back so not so much of a problem.
Still, should be fun trying to bend this lot up. Not sure if to put bearings in the blade, or just let it spin on the 12-13mm studding I'm planning on using. That disc is going to be a right pain to make, got a general idea how I'm going to make it. Might have to test on a small bit first, maybe tomorrow as I've ruined my hands now.
You ever had one of those ideas of "I'll make it out of X, that will be a GREAT idea!" then regret it after a day?
Well, thats how I see this going. With that said, pictures and information.
Borderlands 2 - Kreig Buzz Axe - A Slow Build.
A little while back, Gearbox released the trailer for a new character called Krieg. A mass of insane meat with an axe.
Krieg: A Meat Bicycle Built for Two - YouTube
Seeing this, I thought he had a cool axe and started picking apart the video for ideas of scale (borderlands human shapes are weird, giant hands, so its hard to get a bead on at times). Also had a nice reference in the from ;
With half an idea of what I was doing, no money, and a van. I headed out to "acquire" a shipping pallet for some wood. Also used the pallet to make half a table, some bits to space the welder on the trolly, and rebuild a ladder.
I got a basic idea of how I wanted the handle to be, I tried tracing it off an image but it didn't really look right (I'm not going for 100% accurate, as it would drive me insane).
Instead, I did round about shape I wanted to some card, cut it out and tweaked it, then transferred it to wood. Then spent a few afternoons on the belt sander rounding it all off. Its not great, but it fits my spongy hands;
Was around this time, I got a call from my nan to paint her fences. During which she gave me a bench grinder her son / my uncle had left with her.
This bench grinder, its a fine enough thing, but the parts that hold the stones are utter rubbish and let the stones run at a silly huge run out (5-10mm of run out, as the nuts used are also garbage). So I need to make some new ones, I decided to make them out of 7mm thick steel.
What does this have to do with this build?
Why order two different thicknesses of metal, when I can order one! My genius brain decided that making the metal parts of the axe from 7mm mild steel, same as the parts to hold the stones in the grinder. While ordering, the place also had 150mm x 15mm thick metal discs. I need to make a blade, I'll pick one of them up too.
Metal turns up, I also borrowed some staining wax from my father to take the bright wood down to a darker colour. Tested a few bits with cardboard to make sure they seemed about right.
Fast forward to today, 3 hours of grinding, swearing, filing, and more swearing. I have one bit done.
Going to use that one bit, copy it over to another bit of steel to make the other side. The lower ... neck(?) I think I might weld up as its got a lot of bends. Planning on doing a brake drum forge to get the heat into the metal to bend it. As 7mm does not like being bent.
Few bits are WAY off model. But every image I look at is slightly different. Some parts hug around the axe, others just end, some are sharp, some are round. So I'm working on the idea of this being made by a nut of a man on a dust ball of a planet while screaming about having the shiniest meat bicycle, AKA artist license.
I know I need to cut that top spike back. Not sure what I was thinking when doing that. Only needs tweaking back so not so much of a problem.
Still, should be fun trying to bend this lot up. Not sure if to put bearings in the blade, or just let it spin on the 12-13mm studding I'm planning on using. That disc is going to be a right pain to make, got a general idea how I'm going to make it. Might have to test on a small bit first, maybe tomorrow as I've ruined my hands now.
