fiskars axe

[rayzor]

Hi all ,

Just joined the forum and am looking at getting one of these Fiskars 7884 X27 36-Inch Super Splitting Axe...

thing is when looking on e-bay not only is the price different £50 , the product code is different and price £140......

Is there anything different about these axes as in model nos and price??

[rayzor]

Forgot to mention ,

Do any one knows who imports the Fiskars axes in to the UK??

Thanks,

Ray.

[nepia]

Have just bought an X17 off the Bay - £25 + £9 p&p. What a bargain and what a tool; I've done 2 hours with it and not even picked up the X27.

[sandspider]

Tested out the X27 today, on some old knotty bits of conifer, and a few bits of other stuff. I have to say, it's not all that much better than my toolstation maul. It's got a nice swing to it (and is very sharp), but it struggled to split some of the knotty bits (took a good few whacks). Couldn't split one or two bits at all - admittedly, mostly older partly seasoned stuff, but one bit of recently cut holly resisted pretty hard too.

 

Might be that I'm used to the old maul and need to modify my approach, but it wasn't the massive improvement that I expected. And it got stuck in the wood almost as much as the old maul, and I thought it wasn't supposed to do that.

 

Having said this, I've not tested it on non-knotty stuff yet, and I do think it would do

well then, but so does the old maul!

[scotspine1]

rayzor,

 

nothing gets close to a gransfors maul, possibly the wetterling that's about it.

 

don't waste your time with the x27, go straight to the best splitting maul ever made

 

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[Mark Bolam]

+1.

It's also a thing of great beauty.

[Paul Jenks]

Neemantools

Unfortunately these guys aren't taking orders for axes or knives. Too busy. Watch the video for knife making. It'll make you dribble.

[scotspine1]

+1.

It's also a thing of great beauty.

 

handcrafted, not mass produced and you can tell from the first strike it's made by people who know axes and timber inside out.

 

Their splitting wedges are phenomenal as well, use them to split huge pieces of timber

 

[Tommy_B]

rayzor,

 

nothing gets close to a gransfors maul, possibly the wetterling that's about it.

 

don't waste your time with the x27, go straight to the best splitting maul ever made

 

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How much are the Gransfors?

[Goaty]

Hi all ,

Just joined the forum and am looking at getting one of these Fiskars 7884 X27 36-Inch Super Splitting Axe...

thing is when looking on e-bay not only is the price different £50 , the product code is different and price £140......

Is there anything different about these axes as in model nos and price??

 

Are you refering to the maul, possibly wrong peicture I thinkk the x46 is this maul.