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Years ago i watched a movie called “The Last of Mohicans” and i became a big fan of the weapons featured in the movie. Never did I thought that one day I got to know Mr. Daniel Winkler, M.S who was responsible for the axes and knives of the film set and actually writing a review about his "Born of Warrior's experience" axe.
After months of discussions and understanding with Daniel’s work i decided to get myself a new axe design and steel; Dan’s previous breaching axe was Blade Show 2009’s Most Innovative Design and this one proves of his fantastic work again.
Specs:
Steel: 3/8” thick H13 tool steel, tapered towards the butt
Handle : Neon green G-10
Finish: Jungle Camo KG
Length: 15 inches
From spike tip to cutting edge: 6 inches
Edge length: 2.5 inches
Weight: ~2.25pound
W.I.P pics:
The bevel was ground convex; the pommel was machined convex on one side and concave on the other to provide better reach at prying.
Tang tapered for head heavy chopping power:
Sandblasted and ready for HT:
One day this came:
Just over the weekend I’ve decided to test out the design.
What about some dried branches, bricks, cinderblocks and some concretes?
Started off with a broken school chair which upon initial chop it’s made of Cengal, a local hard wood:
Next…. Can we have some bricks and cements?
No edge chips. Minor dings expected:
Nothing on the spike:
Should we try on cinderblocks and concrete?
Here’s a very bad video of chopping through this debacle here:
Warning: Shaky footage as I try to film with my left and chop with right and vice versa.
I beg for your generous pardon.
[video=youtube;-m1xdda7Muo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m1xdda7Muo&feature=plcp[/video]
Here’s the graphic result:
Other than chipped off KG coating,some serious cleaning up to do on the handle and touch-up on the edge, this axe as I would say was built for breaching/combat application but my curiosity of chopping through concrete was solved. Although i might have abused the axe but i’m convinced that it exceeded what I expect.
After months of discussions and understanding with Daniel’s work i decided to get myself a new axe design and steel; Dan’s previous breaching axe was Blade Show 2009’s Most Innovative Design and this one proves of his fantastic work again.
Specs:
Steel: 3/8” thick H13 tool steel, tapered towards the butt
Handle : Neon green G-10
Finish: Jungle Camo KG
Length: 15 inches
From spike tip to cutting edge: 6 inches
Edge length: 2.5 inches
Weight: ~2.25pound
W.I.P pics:
The bevel was ground convex; the pommel was machined convex on one side and concave on the other to provide better reach at prying.
Tang tapered for head heavy chopping power:
Sandblasted and ready for HT:
One day this came:
Just over the weekend I’ve decided to test out the design.
What about some dried branches, bricks, cinderblocks and some concretes?
Started off with a broken school chair which upon initial chop it’s made of Cengal, a local hard wood:
Next…. Can we have some bricks and cements?
No edge chips. Minor dings expected:
Nothing on the spike:
Should we try on cinderblocks and concrete?
Here’s a very bad video of chopping through this debacle here:
Warning: Shaky footage as I try to film with my left and chop with right and vice versa.
I beg for your generous pardon.
[video=youtube;-m1xdda7Muo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m1xdda7Muo&feature=plcp[/video]
Here’s the graphic result:
Other than chipped off KG coating,some serious cleaning up to do on the handle and touch-up on the edge, this axe as I would say was built for breaching/combat application but my curiosity of chopping through concrete was solved. Although i might have abused the axe but i’m convinced that it exceeded what I expect.
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Thats one great looking ax and well built for sure. I have'nt seen anyone test a Winkler that hard before and it took it no problem from what i see in your pics. Thanks for sharing and the review pretty cool. :thumbup: