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Thomas Linton

Thomas Linton

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Searching for another item, I discovered that, after being discontinued for years and years, the smallest model Norlund axe is being manufactured again. Cool-camping.com and other vendors have them. The market price seems to be $33.99, but look around.
 
Thomas Linton said:
Searching for another item, I discovered that, after being discontinued for years and years, the smallest model Norlund axe is being manufactured again. Cool-camping.com and other vendors have them. The market price seems to be $33.99, but look around.
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type norlund into amazon, two hits, a hatchet for $20, and an axe for $26

unfamiliar with this line, other than seeing "antiques with a nice patina" selling for $85... are they good? come sharp? can be made sharp? what's up?

$26 is good for an axe... $20 is what wal*fart charges for a fiskar's sport axe (which is quite damn good i have to say)...

bladite
 
I have not been able to find the story on the rebirth of this axe. So I have no idea if they are made as well as the originals.

he axe stoped being made shortly after Norlund was purchased by a bigger company that decided to cut the axes out of the product mix.

$20 would be surprisingly low -- even troublingly low.
 
I looked at a "new" Norlund about a year back. It looked like cheap soft steel cast in China or India. Not even as good as the "new" Marbles hatchets. I noticed the store, Kittery Trading Post, no longer carries the brand this year. I found an old Norlund on E-Bay. What a difference!!!!!! I put on a new handle, and it is one sweet little hatchet. That bugs me to see old time US names placed on new imported crap. A real shame. What's next, a Colt Python made in Romania?
 
Made by the same process to the same design, it's good news.
Otherwise ?????????????????????

There is a small axe without the Hudson's Bay head as well as the smallest hand axe with the HB head.
 
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