New Axe from Gerber...

What's next? A folding hammer? :confused: I handled the proto at SHOT and it was uncomfortable and highly confusing to operate. I'd trust it about as far as I can throw it, and I'm a bad throw. ;)
 
I think that the worst thing about this is that it caters to the least knowledgeable audience, people who don't know enough about using an axe, or what an axe it used for, they just think it's 'cool'. How many axeidents (:rolleyes:) will it take? I sure hope none-I really hope this thing is as safe or safer than a hatchet or axe of the same size-but my little experience in the woods and around people makes me think this product should have been circular filed at the drawing board.
 
That thing is pug fugly. Dangerous too, by the looks of all those hinges and squared edges. I'll pass.
 
Unless my memory fails me, the last thread on this got pretty heated and was locked. If I had search ability, I'd confirm that. There were certainly some strong opinions expressed.

DancesWithKnives
 
goatariba said:
points to ponder:
1- Even the Gerber website doesn't list a handle length.
2- for 90$ plus tax/shipping i can't "take one for the team"
3- At best i see ppl saying "better than expected" still won't be "better than a hatchet fixed blade hatchet" (coined a new term? FBH?)
4- Do hatchets take up more room than this hatchet like object? i don't see a reason to make it fold...i don't get it.
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$90??? I can live without knowing the facts....
 
kgd said:
It will sell like hotcakes to a generation of kids grown up with transformers. Look at it in its folded state. It is clearly a stapler :D :D
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When you open it does it make that noise Transformers made in the cartoons back in the 80's :P....MAN I wish I had that soundbyte!!!.....
 
We can call it axemus prime:p
I can think of at least twenty (knife related) things I would rather buy with my $90 bucks. If I got another axe it would be one of Brians Snow and Neally's anyway.
 
DWK2 said:
Unless my memory fails me, the last thread on this got pretty heated and was locked. If I had search ability, I'd confirm that. There were certainly some strong opinions expressed.

DancesWithKnives
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I suppose, but this is the thread after the cool off.....Anyhow, discussions about gear is what we do. Threads get locked because they go off topic and users start to resort to personal insults.

So far in this thread, the only strong expressions that have been expressed are a unified dislike of the product. That isn't any reason to derail a conversation, as long as it is civil.

A $90 price tag puts this right up there with Brian Andrew's modified S&N, about $25 more expensive than a wetterlings and $30 cheaper than Gransfors Bruks. Those three are about the best axes available that I know about. I think it is fair to say that this contraption cannot compete with those offerings.

As somebody else mentioned, it is hard to envision that the folding axe can compete with a quality small hatchet which takes up not too much space than the folding axe.

So then what does this thing have to offer?

Mind you, I like take down saws. I don't like this thing.
 
We could start a pool, $10 each, to buy a test mule pass around. With a drawing at the end, and the axe would go to the "Lucky" one. I'm not interested in adding it to my gear, but it would be interesting to see how durable it is. I'll throw $10 into the hat.
 
I said it in the last thread, and I will say it again.

When folding shovels came out, I am sure someone said "too many parts...too expensive..not as good as a fixed handle shovel." However, folding shovels are still around, are still popular, and made it through several wars.

On the issue of cost, you can buy a shovel at the home center for $10 but a lot of people buy the Gerber E-tool for $50.

It may be worth looking at.
 
^ True indeed and valid points.

However I wonder at the stress by the sustained heavy impact of chopping? Makes me cringe at the design of that newfangled thing.

Like a cross between between an M6 Scout and a "hawk"?
 
buddha72 said:
When you open it does it make that noise Transformers made in the cartoons back in the 80's :P....MAN I wish I had that soundbyte!!!.....
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PM me with your email. I have the soundbyte.
 
chewbacca said:
I said it in the last thread, and I will say it again.

When folding shovels came out, I am sure someone said "too many parts...too expensive..not as good as a fixed handle shovel." However, folding shovels are still around, are still popular, and made it through several wars.

On the issue of cost, you can buy a shovel at the home center for $10 but a lot of people buy the Gerber E-tool for $50.

It may be worth looking at.
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The folding E-Tool is not as good or as popular as shovels with fixed handles. If it were, the civilian market would be flooded with them. Go to Home Despot, Farm and Fleet, or Ace Hardware and see what is there to see. No Gerber E-Tools. Just "shovels" as the vast majority understand that word. We are not typical consumers of tools here.

The folding E-Tool of late WWII -> is, in part, a chopping tool, and dirt can be hard. But it has a fairly massive mechanism and a screw adjustment to adjust for deformation when ised as a mattock rather than a shovel. No weight savings - heavier in fact but more compact. So heavier and more expensive than a comparable tool with a wooden handle. Number of nations adopting them?

I can imagine a folding hand axe made about the same way, but why? I don't have to carry an axe on my belt for rapid deployment to (hmm. not dig in) . . . chop in. An axe can go in or on my pack.

If this item is not as massively built as a folding E-Tool, it is not fairly comparable as to durability.

A solution for a problem that does not exist in the civilian world, I think.
 
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