Basque axes

No, he speaks Euskera, Spanish and a bit of French. Send him an email if you want to comunicate with him in English.
 
Ugaldie said:
Slim278 if you live inEurope contact directly the maker, you will get your axe much cheaper, you can also ask him to customize your axe to your woody needs, he doesn't charge you more money for it.
The stainless steel is not as tough as the normal one. Sometimes customers ask him to produce stainless axes to use them in the wood and they have never had any problem with their axes. But my opinion is to use carbon or tool steels for these tasks.
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I live in USA but I sent him an email, will see what he says. Thanks for the advice.
 
Ugaldie said:
No, he speaks Euskera, Spanish and a bit of French. Send him an email if you want to comunicate with him in English.
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I was concerned including whether he will be able / bother to read something written in English. That answers my question, thank you.
 
Well, I did get a response, quite fast. I don't need Google Translate to understand that he doesn't send axes to my country (didn't say why). Kind of disappointing, I'm not sure I want to give the Finns (Lamnia) more money, especially since I was looking at something they don't have on the website. What if there's some rare instance where I'd need warranty work and they'd point me to discuss it with the maker? Besides, I don't want to give someone my money by force :), it's his right to refuse to sell me.

Thank you for the tip any way, it's just as appreciated as if I already had the axe.
 
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So, it looks like I wont be getting any axes direct. This is what I received:

KAIXO SMITH.GRACIAS POR SU INTERES EN LA COMPRA DE MIS HACHAS,PERO NO ME ES POSIBLE EL ENVIO.FELIZ FIN DE AÑO.


Kaixo,

Thank you for your interest, but due to local restrictive laws I can't send any axe where you live. To purchase the axe you are looking for, follow this link. Don't hesitate to ask Lamnia for the axe you want if you don't find the exact model,

https://www.lamnia.com/en/sc/8/camping-and-outdoors/axes-and-saws?page=&mcid=&mid=505

Best regards,

Jose Ramon Jauregi



With regard to Lamnia, I was trying to place an order with them and during checkout I was charged shipping at around $25. The 2 items I had are both listed as having free shipping included. I contacted Lamnia to get this corrected and inquire about an extra haft. This is the reply I received:

We have just updated the new formula and there seems to be an issue with it. The shipping is free on orders over 155 USD. The system is telling you its free, but its not, those axes are not that expensive. I have some haft here and can include them free of charge!



Sorry for the inconvenience!



Kind regards,

Mihail

Lamnia





From: Zendesk Chat

Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2016 6:27 AM

To: info@lamnia.com ; info@lamnia.com


I looked back at my previous order of a singe 2kg axe from them at $115 and was not charger shipping.
The web page no longer has them listed with free shipping.
Although this is not a problem, if it is their policy, it just puts a bad taste in my mouth when a company will not honor its advertisement.

Regards,
Slim278
 
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I live not far away from the Basque country, so if I can be of any help in translating to/from my first Language to English or I can be of any further help (communicating, providing info, or whatever you can think of) just say it!
nice thread BTW :thumbup:
 
Spanish laws are weird and restrictive about shipping anything bladed, they catalog anything as a weapon and you need special permissions. You can send them from some ways to some places, maily western Europe. But sending any bladed object overseas is a lottery even if you manage to ship it. This is the reason Jauregi works with Lamnia.

That's a very big pity for you who can't buy directly from the forge. Looking for Spanish prices in Lamnia they are significantly higher than to buy axes directly in the forge, believe me when I say significantly.

I don't know Lamnias policies directly but as people has told me they had the shipping included in the price you saw when you were looking at the axe. They may have changed it.

I talked with a fellow USA internet seller and he wanted to sell these axes directly in the USA, I'm trying to convince Jauregi to start business with him but it seems quite complicate.

ThePeacent it seems we don't live far away. As I understand in your comment you live in Spain, no?
 
Augur Ugaldie!

Spanish laws aren't weird, they are horrible, awful and sometimes completely unethical...unless you have money as a big business, then they will bend over backwards for you. (I had a small business in Spain for almost 5 years. What a pita).

Importing and exporting from Spain is a nightmare...that's why in America we have so little from Spain, while we have tons and tons of stuff from France and Italy. Too bad really, but no one wants to deal with the headaches of Spanish bureaucracy.

Anyhow, nice axes.
 
I see. Sounds familiar, sadly. Governments just use a big hammer to treat everyone under the same restrictive rules just because they can't be bothered with details. Europe on a whole likes to restrict its own citizens, while they let in many people from outside without some sanity checks - typical.

Sometimes it's just the Post Office bending the definition of what is a weapon as they see fit.

I guess shipping inside domestically in Spain is fine? I may solve the riddle with someone visiting over :). All legal and whatnot.
 
Agur zurire Onelove! I see you have suffered Spanish laws, that's really a big pity. Some months ago I wanted to send two axes to family members in the USA and it was impossible.

Moonw you can send bladed items domestically, but it depends the way you use. For example sending them via mail is impossible, I have tried to send a totally blunt axe via mail and they reprimanded me because I was trying to ship a bladed weapon without any official permission... :eek:
 
Am I right in assuming that you can't get them properly classified as tools to skirt the ban? (or are edged tools, like a bread knife or wood chisel, banned too?)
 
Ugaldie said:
Agur zurire Onelove! I see you have suffered Spanish laws, that's really a big pity. Some months ago I wanted to send two axes to family members in the USA and it was impossible.

Moonw you can send bladed items domestically, but it depends the way you use. For example sending them via mail is impossible, I have tried to send a totally blunt axe via mail and they reprimanded me because I was trying to ship a bladed weapon without any official permission... :eek:
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If's any consolation, I see this in other parts of Europe as well. So fear not, you don't live in a peculiar part of the world, it is the world as a whole getting more ridiculous every day :). But where's will, there's always way, sooner or later, LOL.
 
Canadian Mojo said:
Am I right in assuming that you can't get them properly classified as tools to skirt the ban? (or are edged tools, like a bread knife or wood chisel, banned too?)
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I'm not speaking about Spain, but in other places if the person (clerk whatever) insists that what you have there is a weapon, it is a weapon. I didn't know being a weapon expert was a prerequisite for the Post Office's job. If one took their rules literally, the context shows, at least in some Eastern European countries, that the intention was to call "weapons" firearms and that's it. But a clerk may very well be a failed lawyer, as you can see. S if the laws don't get it, the internal rules of the Post Office will. Probably that's why Lamnia is using a service similar to UPS, not the Post.
 
I have got a few things (axes) from lamnia. All arrived very quick usually less than a week and prices are awesome. Very good company.
 
Ugaldie said:
Agur zurire Onelove! I see you have suffered Spanish laws, that's really a big pity. Some months ago I wanted to send two axes to family members in the USA and it was impossible.

Moonw you can send bladed items domestically, but it depends the way you use. For example sending them via mail is impossible, I have tried to send a totally blunt axe via mail and they reprimanded me because I was trying to ship a bladed weapon without any official permission... :eek:
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Ya, its too bad. There are some really amazing products, especially the food, but the gov. has made it impossible.

(The axes are nice, but what I would really kill for is some sagardoa/sidra here!)
 
Ugaldie said:
Spanish laws are weird and restrictive about shipping anything bladed, they catalog anything as a weapon and you need special permissions. You can send them from some ways to some places, maily western Europe. But sending any bladed object overseas is a lottery even if you manage to ship it. This is the reason Jauregi works with Lamnia.

That's a very big pity for you who can't buy directly from the forge. Looking for Spanish prices in Lamnia they are significantly higher than to buy axes directly in the forge, believe me when I say significantly.

I don't know Lamnias policies directly but as people has told me they had the shipping included in the price you saw when you were looking at the axe. They may have changed it.

I talked with a fellow USA internet seller and he wanted to sell these axes directly in the USA, I'm trying to convince Jauregi to start business with him but it seems quite complicate.

ThePeacent it seems we don't live far away. As I understand in your comment you live in Spain, no?
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I live here in Barcelona, Catalonia :thumbup:
As far as laws and legal stuff, yeah we're pretty much restricted and our freedom taken away by the Gov., but that's how it works in most of Europe.

I've sent many times sharp stuff through the National Mail, but I always call them "camping tools" or just "collectibles" and have had no problems yet.
Earlier this year I have shipped an axe (tomahawk, very well packaged, couldn't see through the envelopes) labeled as camping equipment to a fellow Spaniard, no problems at all.
I also shipped a very large edged object to Italy, but it was via Private Shipping Company ala UPS as it was too large for the National Mail's offered services
 
Canadian Mojo I have specifically asked about wood chisels and they are considered weapons... :confused:

Moonw one day I convinced a post office worker to send a multitool via postage, they called me from the central asking about why I was using their service to send weapons. They open or scan all the packages which they transport by plane, impossible to convince all the system.

0nelove come here we have a lot of cider makers and very good ones! ;)

ThePeacent I think you are lucky to have the offices you have, here it's impossible to ship any bladed object. Sometimes I ask myself if they catalog pencil sharpeners as weapons...
 
Yeah. Wondering whether some of our public servants couldn't be labeled as "terrorists" as well :). It seems like a disease spreading through Europe. Well, not that die hard democrats wouldn't be at least as enlightened as our finest!

Thanks for taking time to explain me the situation. Looks like lack of common sense is universal :).
 
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