The Ballistics of Axes

[VintageAxe]

I was reminded of this when I read Steve's posts on this thread:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/874808-A-cleaned-up-head-looking-for-ID

The fellow I learned how to sharpen crosscut saws from mentioned that he (somehow) knew of the existence of a book or paper, probably pretty old, on the ballistics of axes that was written in German, it sounded like kind of a scientific research paper. I looked on google books once or twice but I don't speak german and so getting the search right probably could have worked out better for me. At any rate I didn't come up with anything.

Any of you axe nerds run across this? Or want to try to find it?

 

[Operator1975]

Axe Nerds?

 

[Pipeman]

;-)))) The axe nerds prefer the term guru ;-)))

R

 

[Ookami]

What do you mean ballistics? How they fly? I know of a paper that analyzes the francesca desing, that also adresses some points as to its flight patterns.


Ookami

 

[VintageAxe]

From what I gathered it looked at what happens in that split second when the edge impacts the wood and how things like angle of entry, angle of sharpening and that kind of technical stuff affect it...

You know, the kind of stuff an axe nerd would find interesting reading on a Saturday night. Nerd might be giving me too much credit, but guy with a basement full of junk (including way too many axe handles and heads) is a rather unwieldy noun.