Traditional Finnish Style Forest Axe

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logjacob

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Traditional Finnish Forest Axe.
Made by old Finnish drawing.
Hand forged (by hand hammers).
Laminated steel. W108 carbon tool steel for the blade. Rockwell 58 (HRC). Axe head length 6 inches.
Blade width 4 inches. Turpentine, linseed oil and bees wax treatment for the head.
Elm handle - 23 1/2 inches.
Handle is hand shaped, linseed oiled and bees waxed.
Hand made leather blade guard.

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very nice, excellant photography. Can you give your opinion on the orientation of the grain in the handle? Obviously a hand made piece- counter to the traditional selection of grain orientation.
Thanks
 
A Visitor said:
very nice, excellant photography. Can you give your opinion on the orientation of the grain in the handle? Obviously a hand made piece- counter to the traditional selection of grain orientation.
Thanks
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My thought too.
 
You guys make some beautiful tools and their quality is absolutely admirable.

However, if you keep posting links to a website for Sales purposes you should pay to advertise here..... Otherwise, you're going to be banned in some way or another and then access to this market would be closed. Not a good business decision.

Otherwise, keep making those beauties and post pics (generating demand for your products). Maybe show some pics where your axes are doing something - chopping/felling some wood. That would speak volumes how effective they are - not just something to take pictures of!
 
Hey, if you're John Neeman or a distributor.
That axe handle clearly has a problem with handle grain orientation.
As is it is plain wrong and should be perpendicular to that.

I noticed this on your previous axes, but it is much more a problem on this design as I can easily see the handle break.grain.jpg
That seems really out of place.
 
fmajor007 said:
You guys make some beautiful tools and their quality is absolutely admirable.

However, if you keep posting links to a website for Sales purposes you should pay to advertise here..... Otherwise, you're going to be banned in some way or another and then access to this market would be closed. Not a good business decision.

Otherwise, keep making those beauties and post pics (generating demand for your products). Maybe show some pics where your axes are doing something - chopping/felling some wood. That would speak volumes how effective they are - not just something to take pictures of!
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Ok. I a apologise for that. I will read in the future more carefully the terms of the forum.
 
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Yes. I agree with that, but the particular one was not made for hard working, but as a collectable.

Ravaillac said:
Hey, if you're John Neeman or a distributor.
That axe handle clearly has a problem with handle grain orientation.
As is it is plain wrong and should be perpendicular to that.

I noticed this on your previous axes, but it is much more a problem on this design as I can easily see the handle break.View attachment 256824
That seems really out of place.
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im sure it works fine and all, but is just looks rather odd IMO... the crooked handle and odd poll just throws me off...
but what do i know, ive never used one like that...
 
beautiful tool
like the other guys said the wood grain is horizontal, from my experience the wood will fail .
the forging work is pretty amazing
nice looking package

buzz
 
I guess it just doesn't sit well with me when someone posts their work on every related forum they can think of with no purpose other than to advertise his goods. Trying to walk as closely to the line as possible without crossing it so that you can advertise for free. Not cool in my book. Cheapens the value of the forum for us all, especially for those friends of ours who spend their hard earned dollars to do the right thing (i.e.: paying the fee required to market goods here). Frankly, I'm shocked that the mods have been so lenient, looks to me like your posts on BushcraftUSA already have been removed. My 2 cents.

Someone go ahead and tell me to calm down or call me a boyscout...I won't mind. :D
 
M3mphis said:
I guess it just doesn't sit well with me when someone posts their work on every related forum they can think of with no purpose other than to advertise his goods. Trying to walk as closely to the line as possible without crossing it so that you can advertise for free. Not cool in my book. Cheapens the value of the forum for us all, especially for those friends of ours who spend their hard earned dollars to do the right thing (i.e.: paying the fee required to market goods here). Frankly, I'm shocked that the mods have been so lenient, looks to me like your posts on BushcraftUSA already have been removed. My 2 cents.

Someone go ahead and tell me to calm down or call me a boyscout...I won't mind. :D
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Don't become boiled. Ok, I removed the links for the pictures in flickr. So I do not see any advertise there. We are not a manufacturing company, we just made the unique axe and wished to share it. Like every one of you, who would like to share his own work. Ok, each forum has its terms and rules - so I apologise for not reading them carefully. Ok no more posts from us here. So I don't want to become in someones eyes like a spammer. Good luck to you all!
 
The very nature of these forums make them possibly the best advertising tool manufacturers have. Every word of praise for Spyderco this or Benchmade that is out there for all to see. I won't launch into a complex anthropology lecture on group behavior and fixation theory but suffice to say the positive comments relating to an item such as a Spyderco Paramilitary 2 will always outweigh the negative (nice knife that;)). Kudos to the mod's for attempting to manage all of this.....:)

Sam
 
At any rate...

To logjacob, it wasn't so much a condemnation, just criticism. Nobody likes criticism so I can understand your adverse reaction, but sometimes you just have to take it in. If you bought a vendor membership, I think you could sell those amazing looking axes like candy on this site. There are tons of buyers around here and a bunch of axe freaks to boot. Just sayin.
 
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