My little collection!

Humppa

Humppa

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Hi guys!

I just wanted to show you off my little axe- hatchet and tomahawk collection.

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And a family pic of all the pieces... :)

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And here are a couple more

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All the handles are made of ash wood and are all users. But for sure, not the handle of Fiskars splitting axe ;) I just added new handles on every of them. I had a lot of wood work to do, so most of them broke during hard work. Some of them are pretty old.

How do you like it?

Kind regards
Andi
 
Nice...Looks a bit damp there Andi. Bet they all got a wipe with an oily rag before being put away. Nice to see those patterns.
 
Great set of axes. I especially like the haft of that hewing axe. Is that something you bought or one you made yourself?
 
None of the hafts is bought. They are all made by myself. I have a friend who is carpenter for furniture and I can use his machines. Like wood drilling machine and so on... The a re all placed on the haft with a cross cut for the woodenwedge. That´s my sunday-afternoon hobby.

Kind regards
Andi
 
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You're doing some fine work, Andi.
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Thank you for the nice words, guys... I´m trying to do my best... ;)

Some of the axes are pretty old, so I try to keep them in some traditional looking :)

Kind regards
Andi
 
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Nice pieces, Andi. Impressive work on the handles! As mentioned, that goosewing is phenomenal!
 
Hi guys!

Thank you for the replies!

The Ochsenkopf Forest Axe is the heaviest axe I´ve seen so long on an axe and a tool which is not called a hammer ;) The handles break easily with this pattern. It has 1.600 gramm head-weight, that´s round about 56 ounces (avp system), I don´t know which system you guys use in the US. Every other thing is then a splitting hammer. I have also one, but that´s at my dad right now. I can show it off, if you guys want

Here´s a pic of the Ochsenkopf Forest Axe I meant...

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Kind regards
Andi
 
Hi!

With the sledge, do you mean the heavy hammer? (I don´t know what sledge means)

It has round about six kilogramm. It´s a pretty heavy tool. I use it for splitting timber, shorted at one metre with a wedge made of steel. I reduces the weight of the bigger timbers and makes great fun ;)

Kind regards
Andi
 
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