Where to buy Gransfors Bruks axes online? + other questions

ginshun

ginshun

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I am going to pick one of these up soon, but what is the best place to buy them online?

Also I am thinking I will probably go with the Small Forest Axe or the Hunters Axe. What is actually the difference between these?

Axe would just be used for general camp use. Chopping and splitting smaller wood for the fire mainly, but I wan't something bigger than a hatchet, to do a little heaveir work if need be. I am not going to be felling any big trees or anything like that.

Small splitting axe looks cool too, I always seem to end up splitting wood for the fire. Anyone know how well it chops and / or splits?
 
I have a Small Forrest Axe, and I am very well satisfied with it. The edge was exceptionally sharp, as axes go, NIB. It was ground a little to thin for knotty hardwood, but that is easily remedied. If my memory serves me correctly, the Hunter's Axe has a flay pole, used in skinning large game, instead of a hammer pole, which the SFA has. I think the handle is shaped slightly different as well. I haven't handled a Hunter's Axe, but I'm sure they are of the same quality as my SFA. I doubt the small splitting axe would be very effective at anything but splitting wood, but I've never handled one. I'm in the market for a large felling axe, and am curious about the GB American Felling Axe, if anyone has any experience with one. Any other recommendations would also be welcome.

Todd
 
Todd Robbins said:
I have a Small Forrest Axe, and I am very well satisfied with it. The edge was exceptionally sharp, as axes go, NIB. It was ground a little to thin for knotty hardwood,
Todd
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That's what I found for the Hunters. Once I took the edge back a little with a belt sander it didn't chip any more.

The Mini just plain snapped on some hardwood. I think that that little beard that snapped off was either improperly hardened or not enough steel behind it for what I was chopping.

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Do they have a warrenty?

Something like that has got to be considered a defect.
 
Hey
Yes you have a warranty on that axe it´s happen some times and it´s a crack after hardening.
Best regard
Cegga
 
So long as were on GB questions does anyone know of a place in American that sells replacement handles for their axes, if possible even haft one on a head? My double bits gettin haggerd.
 
The hunter's axe has a different handle with a single curve. I actually prefer it over the typical recurve handle. The "flay poll" does nothing for me when skinning game. I have tried this method on a couple deer and find it inferior to a good sharp skinning knife.

one online source is:
http://www.treemanknives.com/tek9.asp?pg=products&grp=37
 
JW said:
The "flay poll" does nothing for me when skinning game. I have tried this method on a couple deer and find it inferior to a good sharp skinning knife.
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I agree. My only experience is skinning deer, but I find as long as I get them started right I can pretty much pull the skin off without the use of any knife or hatchet poll.:thumbup:
 
ginshun said:
Do they have a warrenty?

Something like that has got to be considered a defect.
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Yes. 20 years I think. I sent that broken one to SC and they sent me a replacement.:thumbup:
 
Ya, I can't see the blunt back of a hatchet being the hot ticket for skinning a deer, which is about all I would be skinning. Maybe a rabbit, but you don't even need a knife for that.

I think I will go with the Small Forest Ax

Yes. 20 years I think. I sent that broken one to SC and they sent me a replacement.
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Sorry. SC?
 
For those who may not know, the flay poll method (per GB) is to pull the hide from the animal with one hand while whacking at the meat/hide junction with the poll. unless I'm doing something wrong, it just doesn't work for me. However, I have not yet tried it on a swedish moose.
I have skinned numerous deer, elk, antelope, and smaller furbearing critters. I prefer to skin while still warm when possible and very little blade work is needed. Sometimes, with a cold hide , I know I can still work faster with a good knife.
other than the minor poll issue, I love the Hunter's axe and have quartered game with it and used it for numerous other woodland tasks. I once used it to cut saplings and build ladder-like rungs and steps to get a deer up and out of a steep pit at an old rock/gravel quarry.
The SFA should serve you well.
 
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