WOOX Terra Axe

FortyTwoBlades

FortyTwoBlades

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Happy to announce that the Terra axe I designed for WOOX is now out. The ad copy crew got a few things confused but it's 1/4" thick 4140 steel with the bit hardened to 57 RC and the rest tempered back to 45 RC for toughness and shock dissipation, and only weighs 25oz with a good forward balance.

I don't recommend the micarta version unless wearing gloves 'cause it has some severe bite (I didn't design the incised pattern on it and it's sharper than I'd want, but it DOES grip well) but they got the ergos of the wooden handle PERFECT. The factory edge is good if you want to use it for cleaver-like purposes (it was inspired by some Italian cleavers, in fact!) but for general purpose applications it'll need a little thinning. However, overall I'm very pleased with their execution. I feel this little hatchet overcomes most of the pitfalls of typical slab-construction hatchets. If you've ever looked down on them like I have, this will probably surprise you in a good way.

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It certainly looks like a better hatchet shaped knife than most, probably much more of an effective hatchet than any others I've seen.
So many of these things made today have all kinds of holes and such in them, they're like one of those $1.99 wallet tools on steroids.
They all remove weight where you actually need that weight to be.


I can see you smartly removed weight where it doesn't need to be while leaving it where it does, this is probably one of the best efforts I've seen for one that was actually intended for wood processing.
Those little ones from the knife combo's of the past were really just hunters cleavers, designed perfectly fine for that but marketed for the wrong purpose.
 
Yeah they did the cheek geometry just like I wanted them to. It both chops and splits well thanks to that, and the tang is fully skeletonized as well, so it balances just below the head like on a typical hatchet. There's a double lanyard hole to encourage folks to use a proper 'round-the-back-of-the-hand wrap so it locks in the hand in a way that swings away from the user if dropped and won't drag you with it if snagged on something. Really for most hatchet-sized tasks the performance isn't much different from what you'd experience with a typical small hatchet, and it's excellent for limbing thanks to the proportionally wide bit. The point under the poll helps with keeping the striking area small if using the poll to break blasty little snags and overstriking by accident. It was originally intended to have the neck and poll face given filleted edges but they chose to omit it--hence why the poll has the rounded corners for flaying work. Easy enough to DIY at least. The grip has a nice taper to it and a very secure flare at the butt.
 
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