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Ah yes, the Salvador Dali, octagonalized line. Didn't see the factory stamp however.
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Didn't see the factory stamp however
I'm sorry that the axe didn't work out because for me the end point is always how it would feel sharpening up the bit and chopping wood
these playful elements embedded in the tools are something very particular and even common and also distinguishing to the French smid
...Would anyone know,by chance,the nature of the exact constr. of the Front of the eye/collar on kirves?...It is normally wider than seems natural,and peculiarly flat,on that forward-facing facet...
(what makes it confusing is that at some point technology has caused the process to change,and the later eye was in effect DOM(drawn over mandrel),from a solid billet.
However,it's shape Stems from some older technique that is a mystery to me...a box-weld of some sort...