Fokos

[R APPLEBY]

Axe head is hand forged from a ball peen hammer, mirror polished and acid etched. Head is 7 inches long with a 3 inch cutting edge. Haft is 36 inch long Paduk with a double bead of hand carved rope design. end caps are of wrought iron. Weight is about 2 lbs.

Price Reduced $250.00(plus $10.00 shipping)
SOLD
PAY PAL ACCEPTED


APPLEBY KNIVES

R.APPLEBY

 

[shappa]

Wow! That is just great! I love seeing ethnic stuff done well.

 

[J. Neilson]

Beautiful!

 

[Mark Williams]

Nice work Robert,

You should come over and hang out more at the shoptalk forum.

Mark

 

[R APPLEBY]

THANKS MARK I'LL CHECK IT OUT.

 

[R APPLEBY]

BTTT

 

[captf]

Beautiful craftmanship! I have a couple of
similar items called "ciupaga" by the
Polish people. Is this of similar ethnic origin?

 

[R APPLEBY]

I AM NO EXPERT BUT, I WOULD SAY YES. I BECAME INTERESTED IN THIS AFTER READING A KNIVES 2002 ARTICLE BY JOSEPH SZILASKI, "A SHARP FOKOS MAKES THE TRIP A LITTLE SMOOTHER". ACCORDING TO THE ARTICLE I WOULD SAY IT'S AN ALL OVER EUROPEAN TOOL, INCLUDING POLAND.

 

[LoveTheBlade]

Children are still given wooden "Fokos" in hungarian schools. Although, you aren't supposed to carry a fokos made of anything harder then brass anymore. Too many bad "incident's" I should talk to szilaski about one...I only live fifteen minutes from him.

 

[R APPLEBY]

BTTT

 

[L6steel]

Wow, I gotta get into forging!
That thing is gorgeous R.A. !!

 

[R APPLEBY]

THANKS L6

 

[R APPLEBY]

Price reduced to $250.00
SALE PENDING
Pay pal accepted

 

[R APPLEBY]

BTTT

 

[bennytheblade]

still for sale or is a sale still pending?

 

[R APPLEBY]

SOLD........

 

[jamesraykenney]

Still for sale?

 

[R APPLEBY]

Sorry it sold some time ago, I forgot to mark it as such, I can always make another.

 

[Daniel Koster]

Excellent work! Nice polish & engraving (contrast).