Double-bit axe in Frailty?

FSCJedi · May 17, 2014

Ok, I'm sure it's been asked before, but can anyone identify the manufacturer of the "OTIS" double-bit axe used in the movie Frailty?

300Six · May 21, 2014

Know nothing about that movie but a double bit, if it's recent, is likely stamped 'Iltis' which is a German company of which some of the products are featured in the Lee Valley Tools catalogue.

KingKoma · May 22, 2014

This one?

FSCJedi · May 22, 2014

Yup, that one.

Square_peg · May 22, 2014

Looks European with those hollow cheeks.

FSCJedi · Jun 25, 2014

Anybody have a manufacturer guess?

Double Ott · Jun 26, 2014

Square_peg said:
Looks European with those hollow cheeks.

A double bit faller is really an American tool. You don't see many , if any European made Michigan double bits. I sent a Kelly Perfect DB w/ helve and wedges to a friend of mine in the UK. He was thrilled to get it. He told me that the American DB was very rare over there. He posted his restoration and hanging the axe on a UK Bushcraft forum and got three pages of replies.

Tom

Square_peg · Jun 27, 2014

Double Ott said:
A double bit faller is really an American tool. You don't see many , if any European made Michigan double bits.

And you don't see any vintage American double bits with hollow cheeks like that. Could be hardware store import trash or it could be European. But it's surely not a vintage American axe.