New Warwood tools " perfect axe " ?

FortyTwoBlades said:
And specifically, theirs has the hoe blade forged in-place rather than twisted like Council's.
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If it's priced right that could really give them a leg to stand on with their new axe line.
I was going to question how they might compete with CT, but if they can make something that seems to be a better tool ( at least on paper anyways ) they could make a bit of a splash and have some success with a line of working axes.
 
I mean, they've had it in their lineup for years. Not sure how long exactly, but quite a long time to my understanding. I have no firsthand experience with the model but I remember seeing it on their site probably around a decade ago and it sure wasn't new then!
 
Well that's exciting.
I didn't think I'd want another axe, but... well they figured out the magic.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
I mean, they've had it in their lineup for years. Not sure how long exactly, but quite a long time to my understanding. I have no firsthand experience with the model but I remember seeing it on their site probably around a decade ago and it sure wasn't new then!
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About 2 years ago they had first run of their Pulaski model. I was hoping it would open the door for development of more axe products and become a very much needed competition for Council Tools. I counted that heir long history of making adzes gave them much needed expertise to start making other edge tools.
Warwood specialized in railroad tools. I loved using their lineman hammer with the hole designed for screwing-in pole steps. They also made splitting mauls, froes,
I have never stumbled on Warwood made Pulaskis that were older than 2 years
 
crbnSteeladdict said:
About 2 years ago they had first run of their Pulaski model. I was hoping it would open the door for development of more axe products and become a very much needed competition for Council Tools. I counted that heir long history of making adzes gave them much needed expertise to start making other edge tools.
Warwood specialized in railroad tools. I loved using their lineman hammer with the hole designed for screwing-in pole steps. They also made splitting mauls, froes,
I have never stumbled on Warwood made Pulaskis that were older than 2 years
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I stand corrected! Looks like they've been making cutter mattocks for as long as I was remembering, though. My brain likely considered the Pulaski as familiar when they first appeared as a result! Archive.org only has fairly modern catalogs from them but they have one as old as 1995 that has cutter mattocks.

Edit: there was a smaller axe handle manufacturer that someone here on the forums had remarked about in the past and I think it was they who had a non-twisted Pulaski rather than Warwood. I think I was also crossing it up with that. Can't remember the name of the company now, though.
 
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I just looked at their website. While I have always liked their tools, I see a problem. Their adzes. They list a carpenter adze that is not a carpenter adze. It looks just like their Forest Adze to me, which is a wildland firefighting tool. A carpenter's adze has a half poll not a full poll like a forest or a track adze. From the photos the geometry and the edge bevel is wrong.
 
Old Axeman said:
I just looked at their website. While I have always liked their tools, I see a problem. Their adzes. They list a carpenter adze that is not a carpenter adze. It looks just like their Forest Adze to me, which is a wildland firefighting tool. A carpenter's adze has a half poll not a full poll like a forest or a track adze. From the photos the geometry and the edge bevel is wrong.
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Yes, under the "Adzes" section of the website you'll see that they use the same photo twice, and I suspect they simply grabbed the wrong file when doing the photo upload when building the new site. Their 2014 catalog shows what the current tool most likely actually looks like, though it's an illustration.

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Hickory n steel said:
Where the CT Pulaski's changed to a twist method recently?
I googled the CT pulaski and was seeing some stock photos of a traditional non twisted head.
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It's difficult to see in the photos because of the location of the twist and the side they usually photograph it from. If you find images that are at a skew to the product, especially good resolution detail photos, you can see it clearly. They've been making them that way for quite a long time.

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It's a simpler process to forge the tool out all in one plane vs forging out one end perpendicular to the other end. The tool forged in one plane then needs to be twisted to make the adze perpendicular to the axe. But our trails association has found that the twisted pulaski adzes are more prone to bending than the forged adzes. And we go through a lot of pulaskis.

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Square_peg said:
It's a simpler process to forge the tool out all in one plane vs forging out one end perpendicular to the other end. The tool forged in one plane then needs to be twisted to make the adze perpendicular to the axe. But our trails association has found that the twisted pulaski adzes are more prone to bending than the forged adzes. And we go through a lot of pulaskis.

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I was under the impression that the twist was just a part of the dies and not actually twisted? I think I got that impression from closely examining a twisted Pulaski. Pretty sure I no longer own it....
 
There may be dies used in the forging process after the twist is done that could give a false impression of them having been "forged twisted" but the whole point of the twist is as a manufacturing simplification. Even industrial drop forging like Council does doesn't typically occur in a single step.
 
Warwood now has an image of what is likely the production version of the axe up. A bit different than the artistic rendering, but it looks nice! Those cheeks need thinning, though.

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FortyTwoBlades said:
Warwood now has an image of what is likely the production version of the axe up. A bit different than the artistic rendering, but it looks nice! Those cheeks need thinning, though.

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Overhype and underdeliver. Kelly Perfect legacy deserves better.

Unfinished bevels and polished ridge line would create nicer look.
For now, I am only left with hope that their heat treatment will be good,
 
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