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Speaking of axes, has anyone looked at Snow & Nealley? I grew up using my dad's (I think it was a Hudson Bay), and it was a great little axe. The company's been around since about the civil war, and it looks like they're still making their axes in Maine.
 
very cold steel said:
Speaking of axes, has anyone looked at Snow & Nealley? I grew up using my dad's (I think it was a Hudson Bay), and it was a great little axe. The company's been around since about the civil war, and it looks like they're still making their axes in Maine.
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My dad has a Snow & Nealley axe head on a medium sized handle. When I have some free time I'll try to take some trees down and take a few pics.
 
The handles are still made in the USA, but in Texas, and the heads are all made in China now. Bums me out because I've seen plenty of the old antique Snow and Nealleys and the new stuff is barely a ghost of what they used to be. Functional for sure, but not even remotely the same. :(
 
very cold steel said:
Speaking of axes, has anyone looked at Snow & Nealley? I grew up using my dad's (I think it was a Hudson Bay), and it was a great little axe. The company's been around since about the civil war, and it looks like they're still making their axes in Maine.
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Yes - I have a Brian Andrews modified Pen Bay Hatchet and its fantastic - great head design for the harder woods found up here (where the wetterling and GBs are better for conifers). cant tell from the pic, but it is all polished. Heads are made in china or mexico - cant remember which - but its assembled in maine.

Its the bottom one - top is a Wetterling's large hunter.

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FortyTwoBlades said:
The handles are still made in the USA, but in Texas, and the heads are all made in China now. Bums me out because I've seen plenty of the old antique Snow and Nealleys and the new stuff is barely a ghost of what they used to be. Functional for sure, but not even remotely the same. :(
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Do you know when the transition was made? I'm pretty certain my dad's is quite a few decades old, but to be sure I'll check the head for markings.
 
I see pics of batoning on the esee website under jungle training. Seems like a method used and taught by the RAT crew, I find it weird that Jeff himself hates on it when he seems to make gear that lends itself to such activities. Not trying to stir shit up, just saying.
 
Our knives were designed to take it. I have never said we don't do it. We simple teach there are better methods that allows a person to gain more skill and knowledge instead of just being a lazy bum or someone who wants to say "hold my beer and watch this shit."
 
Yeah there are a many ways to get a good fire going, I for one have always found that a split log seems to catch better. I wouldnt process hundreds of pounds of wood with my blade but my BK-9 loves splitting a log or two to get the rest of the big guys burning.
 
HardTripper said:
Yeah there are a many ways to get a good fire going, I for one have always found that a split log seems to catch better. I wouldnt process hundreds of pounds of wood with my blade but my BK-9 loves splitting a log or two to get the rest of the big guys burning.
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Me too, but would you chance breaking your only blade in a survival situation by splitting wood when there are other ways to build a fire?
 
Delkancott said:
Do you know when the transition was made? I'm pretty certain my dad's is quite a few decades old, but to be sure I'll check the head for markings.
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I don't believe the heads have any markings since they're imported as a component part, not a finished good. I know they do the grinding to finish them here in Maine, as well as hafting them, though.
 
R.A.T. said:
Me too, but would you chance breaking your only blade in a survival situation by splitting wood when there are other ways to build a fire?
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Mmmmmmm hard to say but problly not, maybe with the 9 cuz even it it broke I'd end up with enough blade to survive lol :p
 
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