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Best swedish 3/4 axe?

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Takujualuk

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Have been having lots of fun with the Hultafors, Gransfors, Wettterlings 3/4 axe. The price of all of them is coming in line with one another, and the quality is as well. However while some prefer the "fuller figure" of the Wetterlings profile, I still prefer the Gransfors. The thin bit and nice slim handle has the little Gransfors pulling ahead when it comes to carving and making things. Not as good at splitting and a bit sticky when felling but it can still work better at these things than the W can work as a carver. The Hultafors is an in between design...good for all round use. These are all good gear.

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Good of you to put some of these to work to compare them. Next perhaps you want to slip in a few golden oldies for another test comparison! $100+ axes are few and far between in most folks budgets and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised with what you can do with a 50-100 year old flea market/garage sale domestic.
 
My favourite axe was an old Swedish head of a Dayton pattern that I stole from my dad. Lost it on a moose hunt in the winter. Got my moose but lost the axe..It was a wonderful all-rounder!
 
Takujualuk said:
My favourite axe was an old Swedish head of a Dayton pattern that I stole from my dad. Lost it on a moose hunt in the winter. Got my moose but lost the axe..It was a wonderful all-rounder!
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Back 40-50 years when the Swedes were still trying to compete in the contemporary axe business they reproduced n. American patterns that they thought would sell. Back then I also suspect that ordinary Canadians/Americans viewed them as 'inferior imports' not unlike the China and India of today. My dad was never one to buy the best of anything (unless it happened to be cheaper) and he selected a modest-priced Sandvik boys axe when I went out shopping with him in 1960. That axe never did me or my dad any harm for the next 20 years but by then I got swept up with seeking out a locally-made axe, and also brought home a decent chainsaw.
 
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