Marbles

[delmas2nd]

i know it is not a Schrade but here there is also a wealth of knowledge. i have never heard of this manufacturer, Marbles. saw this item on the 'bay and just was curious about the company and how it would compare to Schrade?

http://cgi.ebay.com/MARBLES-LANDMAR...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item334cf5d7a2

 

[rprocter]

Marbles just folded/bankrupt.
the original Marbles, early 1900s made high quality knives. since then there have been 2 or 3 owners. some of the knives were actually made in their Gladstone Mich. shop (the 2000-2001 are excellent), others, folders, made on contract often by Queen, and the most recent FB's and Folders, are from China. it is thought that the recent FBs although marked Marbles Gladestone, Mich. U.S.A., are made in China. it's a crap shoot for most of us because it's hard to tell the real 'custom' ones made in their shop from the China ones.
i think the one you link to might be from China.
but please note, this is what i have put together from reading lotsa posts. lots of the Marbles knives 'nobody' seems to know origin for sure and some of what i have stated could be wrong.
roland

 

[Dave Thinkstoomuch]

They also made some very good quality and interesting axes in various sizes as well. That's all I ever knew them from before I started going deep into researching sharp things. Their "safety-axe" had a really cool metal floating guard. I use a small very sharp "forest axe" for a lot of my bush-craft. Lots of people seem to chop and spit wood with big knives it seems after reading stuff here at BladeForums. Not me. I like to keep my knives for finer work and axe is way faster and easier for me on bigger jobs.

This is their "#6 Safety Axe"

 

[delmas2nd]

now that is a way cool axe. for chopping and splitting i use a double headed axe and a slitting maul respectively. on the double header one side gets dull just switch.

They also made some very good quality and interesting axes in various sizes as well. That's all I ever knew them from before I started going deep into researching sharp things. Their "safety-axe" had a really cool metal floating guard. I use a small very sharp "forest axe" for a lot of my bush-craft. Lots of people seem to chop and spit wood with big knives it seems after reading stuff here at BladeForums. Not me. I like to keep my knives for finer work and axe is way faster and easier for me on bigger jobs.

This is their "#6 Safety Axe"

 

[Dave Thinkstoomuch]

now that is a way cool axe. for chopping and splitting i use a double headed axe and a slitting maul respectively. on the double header one side gets dull just switch.

People call those "double-bitted" axes too and they are meant to be used exactly as you do or to have one perpetually dull edge which jars, pries and splits wood down it's own fissures better than the sharp one which just cuts clean into it like butter. You can keep the sharp-side sharp for chopping and the dull-side dull for splitting. I'm kinda scared of them though. I'm afraid I'd sink it into my forehead on a bad day lol so I use two separate axes as my personal preference. Cheers!