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Bancharo Hi AX?
- Thread starter bigjim
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Jim this comes up about once or twice a year. HI stopped the production on the axe because it was hard to regulate the head so that it would take a standardized handle diameter. People said that was fine, and that they would make their own handle. However, it was going to be more of a headache than it was worth for Uncle Bill as his health wained. With Yangdu at the helm..who knows
Jake
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Those are really nice designs. I would have loved to get one of those heads and fix it up with a nice handle and some other touches.
Not to hijack Jim's thread, but if anyone wants a similar fun project that doesn't cost a lot, Cold Steel special projects is selling off their Battle Axes. I think it's $24 for one or $35 for a pair. You get a steel head, the side langettes, and a 31" handle. I think it's ash.
My idea is to kind of trick them up by putting a new profile on the heads, making them razor sharp in the process as they were pretty dull, sanding out the clear finished hardwood handles and staining them, inserting a polished bolt into the base of one one of the handles for balance, making and inletting a stainless steel decoration into one of the heads, etc. The other I am cutting the 31" handle down and adding finger grooves and turning it more into a hand axe. Both have steel langettes for the side of the handle, and I am grinding those down to dovetail correctly with the head and then repainting them.
One of the heads was turned almost 10 degrees out of line with the handle, which was just sloppy work, but heating it up (with Dan's advice over the phone) I was able to straighten it out a little. Actually I am not sure if there is a negative affect if an ax if the head is canted a bit when chopping.
This is a similar project to the work I did last year on the cold steel assegai spears that I posted about.
The cutting edges are 5", so when done I should have a neat pair of long and short handled axes that look way better than the standard offerings. I know it's kind of like perfuming a pig to do all this work, but it's a fun project and neat to customize stuff for yourself. There's no limit to how far you could go with these as they start out so plain.
CS special projects doesn't show these on their site anymore, but I'm sure they have some left if you call their number.
Norm
Not to hijack Jim's thread, but if anyone wants a similar fun project that doesn't cost a lot, Cold Steel special projects is selling off their Battle Axes. I think it's $24 for one or $35 for a pair. You get a steel head, the side langettes, and a 31" handle. I think it's ash.
My idea is to kind of trick them up by putting a new profile on the heads, making them razor sharp in the process as they were pretty dull, sanding out the clear finished hardwood handles and staining them, inserting a polished bolt into the base of one one of the handles for balance, making and inletting a stainless steel decoration into one of the heads, etc. The other I am cutting the 31" handle down and adding finger grooves and turning it more into a hand axe. Both have steel langettes for the side of the handle, and I am grinding those down to dovetail correctly with the head and then repainting them.
One of the heads was turned almost 10 degrees out of line with the handle, which was just sloppy work, but heating it up (with Dan's advice over the phone) I was able to straighten it out a little. Actually I am not sure if there is a negative affect if an ax if the head is canted a bit when chopping.
This is a similar project to the work I did last year on the cold steel assegai spears that I posted about.
The cutting edges are 5", so when done I should have a neat pair of long and short handled axes that look way better than the standard offerings. I know it's kind of like perfuming a pig to do all this work, but it's a fun project and neat to customize stuff for yourself. There's no limit to how far you could go with these as they start out so plain.
CS special projects doesn't show these on their site anymore, but I'm sure they have some left if you call their number.
Norm
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Thanks for the heads up, Norm i'm going to shoot them an e-mail.
Jake
i'm going to shoot them an e-mail.Jake