Axe gallery!

[Niels]

Here's my cold steel pipe hawk I modded. I only really use it for heavy chopping because the SFA is more practical in my opinion.


2013-04-07 19.05.44 by Sami knives, on Flickr


2013-04-07 19.06.02 by Sami knives, on Flickr

 

[Pignut]

Wow! some lovely stuff on here!

Some of mine. Also just finished this one

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[johnbaz]

Hi Santaman

It's barely visible, it says plumb1942..

Cheers, John

 

[johnbaz]

Johnbaz, the S&J head is I think a 1.1/4 I have one and it is a great little axe.

Cheers Hugo

I was using it a couple of weeks ago to reduce branches from my hedges, it holds an edge for ages!!


EDIT- forgot to say, there are some beautiful axes, hawks and mauls in this thread



Cheers, John

 

[santaman2000]

Hi Santaman

It's barely visible, it says plumb1942..

Cheers, John

Cool find! Congratulations. As you may or may not know. the 1942 isn't neccessarily the year it was made (though it easily couls be) It's the year that the Army let the contract for the specs the axe was built to. It would have been on all axes built that year or any year thereafter until the specs were changed.

Unfortunately I still can't post pix up here. But I have three Plumbs right now. One is a small hatchet I've had since it was new over 40 years ago. It's one of the ones that was an official BSA model; with the Plumb logo on one side and the BSA Fluer-de-Lis on the other.

The other two axes are full sized axe heads I got off e-bay that are waiting to be restored. One is a double bit and the other a general axe.

I had a 3/4 Plumb (also a BSA axe I'd gotten about the same time I got the hatchet) that I gave to my cousin's son when he was in the Boy Scouts.

 

[bb07]

Sigh.... I'm a bit of an axeaholic I'm afraid
All currently owned except for the Kubben.
From left to right: GB Small Forest, Kubben, Scandinavian(my spare), Wildlife, and another Scandi, my most used

No intro needed!

Iltis Ox-head 2 1/2 pound

And another

Wetterlings mini

L to R: Estwing , Ox-head, Norlund, and two more Estwings

And a light little fellow of no name that I use when hunting, for bone chopping/butchering

That's it for what I call ''the good ones''. I don't have pics of my splitting mauls and junker axes thankfully, as that's another dozen

 

[vizsla]

That norlund is a stunner, iv been trying to get my hands on a decent one for years but most of the ones I see some one has abused it with a grinder!

 

[bb07]

That norlund is a stunner, iv been trying to get my hands on a decent one for years but most of the ones I see some one has abused it with a grinder!

Yes, they are getting very hard to find, and any that do show up on places like ebay usually sell for a ridiculous amount of money, far more than they are worth I think.
This particular one I bought from a mail order catalogue in the late 1970's. Prices were more reasonable then

And here is an example of unreasonable
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Norlund-Huds...214?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cd099d4f6

 

[Lister]

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Here's newest one, put to good use. (son in laws egg)

overkill is underrated

 

[Dave]

I quite like his parenting style.
Subconciously Stevie believes that egg is his cranium, and should he mess things up with his daughter......well
Every father should greet his daughters potential suitor wielding an axe.

 

[yarrow]

Old lot.

Current users

 

[Biker]

Hey Yarrow, what's that you've got wrapped around the shaft of the Estwing in the bottom two pix?

 

[yarrow]

Hey Yarrow, what's that you've got wrapped around the shaft of the Estwing in the bottom two pix?

Its a built up leather grip, I found the only thing I didnt like about the estwing was the inability to choke up on the head, the shaft being too thin to grip.

 

[Biker]

Its a built up leather grip, I found the only thing I didnt like about the estwing was the inability to choke up on the head, the shaft being too thin to grip.

Yeah know what you mean about the Estwings. I use a claw hammer by them in my day job as a carpenter, not quite the same method as choking an axe but in the axe's case it's a definite design fault.

VERY nice collection you've got there.

 

[Pignut]

One i have re finished.

Really bad pictures

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[Lister]

My collection



Bahco 10-30-23 Bowsaw (also have a 51 blade to complement the 23 blade)
Bahco 396LAP Laplander 396LAP

Husqvarna Hatchet
Hultafors HULH008SV

2 x Mora 840MG Companions
Ben Orford Small Crook Knife (Left Handed)

 

[Samon]

next on my list is a decent polished up Kent pattern hatchet, Cold steel pipe hawk and a husqvarna axe!

Yarrow that Kent pattern on the end right in your middle pic' looks superb!

Loving all the other collections too, some really extravagent and modest lots!

 

[freenarative]

you wanted some photos. Here's my cold steel spike hawk mod. Whadda ya think?
(edit for second picture.)
BTW, that's my cat in the lower lest of the second pic. Is it me or do his stripes form a creepy face?

 

[Lister]

you wanted some photos. Here's my cold steel spike hawk mod. Whadda ya think?
(edit for second picture.)
BTW, that's my cat in the lower lest of the second pic. Is it me or do his stripes form a creepy face?

that looks so gorgeously gnarly, it makes me want to go zombie decapitating with it.......pretty please?

 

[fishfish]

my gransfors pimped. by fishfish_01, on Flickr

my pyrographied gransfors wildlife hatchet.