Quick video: Rinaldi "Calabria" hand axe

I got cleaned out just the other day on the smallest size, but have the two larger ones in stock still.

 

Made in Italy of C45 carbon steel. Not sure of the specified hardness but base on how it responds during sharpening and how it holds its edge in use I'd say it's on the upper end of 55RC. They manage to make it hard enough to take and hold a very keen, thin edge yet have that edge roll rather than chip when pushed past its limit.

Well, a saw is a highly specialized tool. It's the best at what it does...but it kind of sucks at anything outside that narrow scope and it's a lot easier to gank one up. An axe is a more broad-spectrum tool that can be used for a wider variety of tasks.

If memory serves correctly, I think that blowdown was beech? The woods here on the property are almost entirely beech with some interspersed pine, oak, birch, and cedar.

 

Hahaha--yeah, only a 350g nominal head weight.