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The little rounds they are posing near are recently cut English Laurel. My chainsaw struggled a bit cutting them and several times I've taken a swing at them with my axe just bouncing off. One swing with the 4 pounder cut really deep. If I had been trying at all it would have split with no problem. I'm going to really like these axes.
 
That is really a cool axe. From the stamping I'm guessing early 20th century? I need to try a hewing axe some day. I am left handed but I think I swing an axe right handed.

By the way, the word Bruk has had me confused so I asked a Swedish friend to translate.
His response:
"Bruk, refers to activities that extract and / or process raw materials. The term usually means not only the building where the refinement takes place, but also the buildings and functions that lie around, including the dwelling houses. Bruk, usually refers to ironworks, glassworks..
The word also means "use" as in "Brukskniv",, "use knife"

I found this fascinating. Hope I'm not clogging the thread with useless trivia.
 
I think it was on Gransfor Bruk web site history that I read it, but they suggest Bruk as being a "works" that had Royal license or concession to make something or mine.. That system had ended long before Gransfor had used it. The thought was it was a marketing ploy to look old and well established. Hults Bruk may go back far enough to use it legitimately .
 
protourist said:
That is really a cool axe. From the stamping I'm guessing early 20th century? I need to try a hewing axe some day. I am left handed but I think I swing an axe right handed.

By the way, the word Bruk has had me confused so I asked a Swedish friend to translate.
His response:
"Bruk, refers to activities that extract and / or process raw materials. The term usually means not only the building where the refinement takes place, but also the buildings and functions that lie around, including the dwelling houses. Bruk, usually refers to ironworks, glassworks..
The word also means "use" as in "Brukskniv",, "use knife"

I found this fascinating. Hope I'm not clogging the thread with useless trivia.
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Not useless at all!

When we chatted on Saturday I mixed up the Bruk and Fors in our conversation. “Fors” I believe means rapids to add in there.
 
Ernest DuBois said:
I really, no really, like how it is handled, maybe even Rowen, but it's for right hand use, no good for me.
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protourist said:
I need to try a hewing axe some day. I am left handed but I think I swing an axe right handed.
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I would encourage you all to try working with your off hand. It's more intuitive than you think. And it causes you to go back and really examine how you do things with your favored hand. It'll teach you something.

I'm right handed but I hew left handed. And I use tools ambidextrously. I started by teaching myself to use a pick and shovel left handed. Then I added hammers and sledge hammers. Next rakes and push brooms. Spread the work around. Have less soreness. Builds the body evenly so you have less back issues.

Now I habitually switch back and forth, left or right, except for handwriting.
 
Square_peg said:
I would encourage you all to try working with your off hand. It's more intuitive than you think. And it causes you to go back and really examine how you do things with your favored hand. It'll teach you something.

I'm right handed but I hew left handed. And I use tools ambidextrously. I started by teaching myself to use a pick and shovel left handed. Then I added hammers and sledge hammers. Next rakes and push brooms. Spread the work around. Have less soreness. Builds the body evenly so you have less back issues.

Now I habitually switch back and forth, left or right, except for handwriting.
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I tend to use tools right handed anyway. I was taught most things by right handed people and naturally copied them. When using an axe my left hand is at the butt end of the haft so I think this is "right handed". Correct?
 
protourist said:
When using an axe my left hand is at the butt end of the haft so I think this is "right handed". Correct?
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My tendency is to swing an axe opposite of that and I'm right handed. They all tell me that hewing with the right hand on the swell is left handed hewing but that's how I do it.

I don't know. It's how you use an axe. Whatever works.

Swinging a felling/splitting axe I switch back & forth. When hewing I keep the right hand on the swell because that's how I made my handle.
 
That makes a lot of sense. I need to spend a little quality time with a hewing axe and see what fits.
Thanks again.
 
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This is purported to be a pre 50's Hults, the drawing being got from their site. I like the attention to tapering the ears, pinching in the poll, etc.

However, there is no stamp anywhere. Does anyone know if there might be another forge who made a "Wermlands" pattern as such? Or am I to accept the provenance based on quite comparable imagery from Hults?

Lastly, what's a traditional handle shape for a head like this? It seems quite like a Swedish analog of a Rockaway.

If anyone knows anything about this particular, I'm all ears!!
 
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