Experience with the Council Tool splitting mauls?

[davidwyby]

Rinaldi has a harder heat treatment and usually better out-of-the-box cheek geometry than Falci, though Falci's axes aren't bad. Some of their models are actually made in Slovenia by Tovarna Kos (if it has a very rounded shape to the corners upon receipt it's probably by them) and some are made by Rinaldi under contract, while some are made by Falci themselves (usually with a lot of coarse finish grinding all over the head.)

Cool, I guess we will see when it gets here - sounds likes it’s gonna be like trying to decipher the history of a vintage head

 

[davidwyby]

Iltis ox head splitting axe showed up from Lee Valley. Kicks butt! Same as stihl splitting axe I think.