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So as most of you have read I have a beautiful 1kg wetterlings on a 26 inch race handle that I picked up at a garage sale, a 26 inch .85kg wetterlings that I broke the factory handle on and a beautiful Swedish made Sandvik .6kg hatchet with a broken handle. I also have a 19 inch Swedish surplus axe (thanks much for the recent review!) coming for Christmas (And thank you Mommy, looks like a Scandinavian/Northwoods lumberjack Christmas!). Now here's the current situation...
I have a 31 inch Wetterlings factory replacement handle,
A .85kg head with no handle,
A 1kg head on a 26 inch haft that has one of those funky eliptical wooden plugs instead of a traditional wedge, that was covered in about a half inch of epoxy inside the eye of the axe head but I painstakingly carved out with the help of some stripper.
The plan was to follow the recent thread on removing a handle intact to pull the race axe handle out and put it on the smaller .85kg head, and use the replacement 31 inch handle for the 1kg head-but now that I see this weird plug type I have no idea how to go about removing the axe head intact, and I don't know if I can just fill epoxy back in and call the heavy head on the thin haft safe to use. I'm hoping this beautiful handle isn't junk but in facing the facts I have come to you for advice.
Do I leave the heavy head on the weird handle and fill the eye back in with epoxy,
Do I wreck the race axe handle and buy a good replacement? And if so, will a 26 inch Gransfors handle fit the eye of a .85kg Wetterlings head? If not, can you suggest a good quality aftermarket handle that will do a 70 dollar axe justice?
And who makes a nice thin curved profile 14-16 inch hatchet haft for this beautiful .6 kg Sandvik head?
Ideally this would leave me with Swede-made axes in 31 inches, 26 inches, 20 inches and 14-16 inches. I also have a double bit Arvika head coming so I'll need a good suggestion for a double bit handle too. These Swede axes are a sickness, much like black rifles, SIG handguns, scandi knives and good packs. And here I was worrying about pneumonia and flu this season all pumped full of steroids...
Thanks much for the advice!
I have a 31 inch Wetterlings factory replacement handle,
A .85kg head with no handle,
A 1kg head on a 26 inch haft that has one of those funky eliptical wooden plugs instead of a traditional wedge, that was covered in about a half inch of epoxy inside the eye of the axe head but I painstakingly carved out with the help of some stripper.
The plan was to follow the recent thread on removing a handle intact to pull the race axe handle out and put it on the smaller .85kg head, and use the replacement 31 inch handle for the 1kg head-but now that I see this weird plug type I have no idea how to go about removing the axe head intact, and I don't know if I can just fill epoxy back in and call the heavy head on the thin haft safe to use. I'm hoping this beautiful handle isn't junk but in facing the facts I have come to you for advice.
Do I leave the heavy head on the weird handle and fill the eye back in with epoxy,
Do I wreck the race axe handle and buy a good replacement? And if so, will a 26 inch Gransfors handle fit the eye of a .85kg Wetterlings head? If not, can you suggest a good quality aftermarket handle that will do a 70 dollar axe justice?
And who makes a nice thin curved profile 14-16 inch hatchet haft for this beautiful .6 kg Sandvik head?
Ideally this would leave me with Swede-made axes in 31 inches, 26 inches, 20 inches and 14-16 inches. I also have a double bit Arvika head coming so I'll need a good suggestion for a double bit handle too. These Swede axes are a sickness, much like black rifles, SIG handguns, scandi knives and good packs. And here I was worrying about pneumonia and flu this season all pumped full of steroids...
Thanks much for the advice!