Best axes.

[ShooTa]

may i just add to those very very indepth posts - GEEKs - and i luv ya for it - very informative... anywhosal i missed anice 2lb head the otherday at the oswestry show ground - guy who beat me was going to weld a metal handle on - i died a bit inside.

[difflock]

Thank you Rune and Agg21.

Very informative posts.

cheers

marcus

[urbandekay]

Why not go the whole hog and have a Damascus steel axe!

[Graham]

My two Ochsenkopf axes. Both 1250g which is about perfect weight for hedge laying. Don't know their model name.

 

 

 

[Rune]

those do look rather nice! love the one on the right in the photo up from the bottom

[wilfred G]

i use gransfors,fiskars and elwell axes

[hedgesparrow]

Not to disparage traditional blacksmiths.

But surely with present cutting edge metal understanding/tool steels/technology.

It should be entirely practical to CNC mill an Ax to bespoke diminsions.

Especially easy to scan a favourite old Axe/billhook/handtool and simply "clone" an even better replacment.

Bang out a few subtly different prototypes in mild steel to try the "heft" perhaps.

And with the prices currently being paid for genunine "hand-made" tools.

Entirely profitable for an astute business person.

 

profile cut steel is to say usless have two only thing they are good for are for kindling a prper bill or axe was made using carbon steel with a sandwich of wrought steel fused together then made into the shape and sharpened hence they are sharp and keep there ede mordern ones use special carbon type steels once again forged into shape then polised to a sharp edge.

hence the price of them as they are good. same with old tools i will only use old tools or tools made by the likes of gransfors or by a blacksmith.

if i was to use a profile cut one i still be hacking at my hedges look like a bever had been having a go. my gransfor i can on a 3inch stem pleach in 3 swings do not think a profile one would do that.

[mendiplogs]

profile cut steel is to say usless have two only thing they are good for are for kindling a prper bill or axe was made using carbon steel with a sandwich of wrought steel fused together then made into the shape and sharpened hence they are sharp and keep there ede mordern ones use special carbon type steels once again forged into shape then polised to a sharp edge.

hence the price of them as they are good. same with old tools i will only use old tools or tools made by the likes of gransfors or by a blacksmith.

if i was to use a profile cut one i still be hacking at my hedges look like a bever had been having a go. my gransfor i can on a 3inch stem pleach in 3 swings do not think a profile one would do that.

Hi all i have a EL WEL 7lb axe nice axe for sale thanks all Jon

[Peasgood]

Hi all i have a EL WEL 7lb axe nice axe for sale thanks all Jon

 

Puzzles me Jon. How come with all the woodcutters on here you haven't shifted that bugger yet.

[treequip]

Why not go the whole hog and have a Damascus steel axe!

 

Because modern carbon steels are far superior.

 

The paternation in Damascus steels is caused by banding of different quality steels and is in this day and age largely decorative.

 

It doesn't make a top quality blade but it is quite pretty.