Slipjoint knife with an axe on it?

[Macchina]

If anybody on your Christmas list asked for one of these, I just found out they make them
I believe 440A is what Gransfors Bruks has been using too, so it should handle any toothpick chopping you normally get a full size axe out for.
The reviews state the blade is unusable with the axe folded (can't get a handhold on the handle), but I doubt anyone is buying this for the blade.
Why do I actually want one???

 

[Rob47]

Gotta have one of those —NOT
Thanks for sharing.

 

[shane45-1911]

More of a conversation piece than anything else, but it has some appeal to me as well.

I think you could use it with the axe folded - it just wouldn't be very comfortable for extended use. What is the alternative? Leaving the axe half-open when you want to use the knife blade?

 

[LLRJ17]

Might be useful at an Atlanta Braves game.

 

[1911bphil]

It would theoretically be functional if the blades were on opposite ends. I still don't see the purpose.

 

[A.L.]

I’m more offended by the black coating

 

[Arathol]

That design has been around for 100 years or so, made by Imperial, Union Cutlery, Marbles etc over the years.....

 

[tltt]

On the old versions, it wasn't really meant to be a swinging hatchet. The very few old references I've seen for them, show them used for separating joints on game. You set the blade on the joint, then baton/whack it with a stick. But still, was really more of a novelty even then.

Cleaver version -

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Hatchet version -

https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/...hunter_1_67aa38da6ccb0f9990db25bf950c7173.jpg .

 

[Hashishiin]

Did not know it was an old design - I have their Cotton Sampler pattern, a big, weird shaped blade good for poking herbs and examining on the blade and ricasso. Nice. Could be useful, I know I would try, but wish the blades were opposing.

 

[Planterz]

Someone's been drinking the Faygo.

 

[The Grendels]

It looks like something crying out for a Hardcorpse Bushicraft version of the Tacticool thread, but I don't imagine that there are enough knives like this to make up a proper thread.

 

[ShaiHulud]

If anybody on your Christmas list asked for one of these, I just found out they make them
I believe 440A is what Gransfors Bruks has been using too, so it should handle any toothpick chopping you normally get a full size axe out for.
The reviews state the blade is unusable with the axe folded (can't get a handhold on the handle), but I doubt anyone is buying this for the blade.
Why do I actually want one???

Tactilol return of the fail

 

[bikerector]

Has anyone actually tried one? I would be lying if I said I wasn't curious, but not curious enough to actually pay... $15?... to try it.

Looks like it would carry horribly as well.

 

[Stelth]

In the 80s Frost cutlery used to make one with George Washington etched on the blade in celebration of the cherry tree story.

I thought it was a stupid feature then, too.

Here's one that inexplicably has an Earnest Tubbs memorial etch on the handle.

 

[Slice O Life]

Do you really have to axe?

 

[1911bphil]

In the 80s Frost cutlery used to make one with George Washington etched on the blade in celebration of the cherry tree story.

I thought it was a stupid feature then, too.

Here's one that inexplicably has an Earnest Tubbs memorial etch on the handle.

Earnest Tubbs adds an infinite coolness factor.

 

[Stelth]

Earnest Tubbs adds an infinite coolness factor.

...then off to eBay with you.