Wetterlings broad axe? Is this another new one?

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Looking for something else entirely the other day, I came across this one on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Wetterling-Br...IOVY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328483967&sr=8-1


Anybody seen this one before? I had never heard of this model. Wonder if it's another new one for this year?

Also, talking about the new ones....Bailey's has the new double-bit throwing axe listed on their website (currently "not in stock", though). The price is nice and reasonable for a tournament axe, too. I have to think I'll be getting one as soon as they're available!


Cheers, gang.


-ben
 
I really like the looks of the carpenter's axe alot.

Off topic...but, I am still blown away by some of GB's prices. $205 for a drawknife??!!
 
trailmaker said:
Thanks, I didn't know they made broad axes. I found another model here if you scroll down this page.http://www.wisementrading.com/woodworking/gransfors.htm
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That Wetterlings broad axe is described as "straight handled (knuckle basher), double beveled axe only". What is the use of a double beveled broad axe? To look cool over the mantle? I don't get it. It seems like there are a lot of 'show' axes being made these days. To each their own, I guess.
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Square_peg said:
That Wetterlings broad axe is described as "straight handled (knuckle basher), double beveled axe only". What is the use of a double beveled broad axe? To look cool over the mantle? I don't get it. It seems like there are a lot of 'show' axes being made these days. To each their own, I guess.
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Some folks used those big double bevel axes for cutting and hewing rail road ties apparently. It is not a broad axe though, thats for sure.
 
two things:

1) the wetterlings carpenter's axe *is* very nice. I bought one that was sold as a Husqvarna, but the head sure is marked "SAW". the handle was the only thing (besides the price tag) marking it as a Husky. very handy small axe. I use it for lots of stuff.

2) re: double bevel, straight handle broad axes -- the smaller variety (such as the Gransfors 1700, 1800, 1900) are very handy logworking tools. they're not so much for hewing like a larger (longer bit) broad-axe is. they're more for scoring, notching, etc. I've got a straight double-bevel 1900 that is pretty sweet. my only complaint is that I'd like it to have a bit longer handle like the Wetterlings that Trailmaker posted above. however, I think the one I linked-to in the orig.post, with a head that size and a bit that long, ought to be a single-bevel bent-handled tool !

*edit*: going back to the originally linked Wetterlings, I see the bit is only about 7 inches long. not as big as I thought it was. oops! still strange that with that shape head it'd have a double-bevel.

-ben
 
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I've known quite a few log builders over the years. MOST of them used double bevel broad axes for scoring and adzes for squaring the face and inside walls rather than a broad axe. More than half of the early broad axes I find up here are double bevel.

Regards

Robin
 
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