Garage sale find

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Trevor51

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Hi, I just bought a axe at a garage sale for 2$ and I don't know any thing about it. It has a logo on it saying iltis ox head. I'm just wondering if this is a good brand where it's made. Is it comparable in steel/quality to say a gransfors bruk? Or a hultafors? And if any one knows around when it was made that would be awsome. And is it worth restoring. Thanks for your time.







 
Personally I like American style axes, but anyway it's a German made axe head as one head is a German company.

It's probably a quality tool, and 2$ was a good deal. Other than that I'm sure someone else has more info for you.
 
I have a couple of these. An older (1950s) Austrian-made version and a W German-made (Iltis Canadian) that I bought new in 1992. Both have narrow blades with flat cheeks, which is frowned upon by n. American users, but none of those attributes ever bothered me. The steel is absolute first class and at very least the equal of Swede products. You'll find Iltis axes listed in commercial outfitters catalogues for forestry, surveying and mineral exploration use, and Lee Valley Tools sells them. They ain't cheap!

The Austrian version (called a Forest Axe) has way more blade than I care for and consequently has never really been used but the Iltis Canada has gotten a lot of miles on it over the past 24 years.

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