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Help Me ID This Axe Pattern?

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Hey everyone! I have had no luck identifying what this style of axe is called. I really like the look of it, with the long eye and slightly upswept edge, it just looks like a pattern that I would really like to have.

The one that the old man is using in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcfwlfz_tGs

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It's easier to see at the point that he's fitting the new head to the handle (which is the same style head as the old one)

The closest I've come is the oxhead, but the eye is not nearly as long:
http://www.highlandwoodworking.com/ox-headforestryaxesmall.aspx

Can anyone point me in the right direction? If I can just find out what that pattern is called, I know where to go from there. If you could point me to a link that actually carries them, that would be even better!

Thanks!
 
judging by the footage and a few things i noticed in the video i think the style of axe is from the netherlands area (the knife hes using is a puuko i believe with a scandi grind). something along the lines of a sandvik style axe. the axe that he uses to carve the shaft in the beginning of the profile has a similar head profile to this one.

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this style of head from bahco seems close as well.
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although, because of how old the footage looks it is quite possible that the head was either hand forged or no longer in production (alot of small companies may have gone under over the times or changed the head pattern).


hope that helped a little


JC
 
The scene is from a finnish documentary made in 1938.

From the footage the axe head doesn't appear handmade but of industrial manufacture. The most common manufacturer of wood working tools at the time was called "Billnäs Bruks" (Billnäs Works established in 1641, www.billnas.fi). Now of course they had several axe head patterns. There's a great similarity between that axe head and a Billnäs felling axe model 12/2 which was a sort of general utility axe. Im 99% sure that's it. They are no longer manufactured but can be found occationally on second hand market. The longish axe eye is called "sheath eye" in Finland.
 
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Patriot Dan, Thanks for the info, that helps. I'm familiar with the origin of the clip, I have the three disk Isien Tyot series, it's all good stuff. "sheath eye"-now I have something to start searching by.
 
very similar to Russian pattern axes I have seen on e-bay in the past.
sorry I can't help more!
be safe...
Ted
 
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