Axes....

[Adi007]

For me, if you can put an edge on an edge tool then the Wetterlings is the axe for you, but if you can't.......(then should be let lose with a blunt tool) than a GB is your axe...

And they can buy a new one each time it gets a bit blunt! :-D

Quality is quality adn not necessarily a single brand thing. The thing is, most of us get so likttle opportunity to try out different brands that we either feel that what we have is awful or the best. The best tool I've always found is the tool you have on you at the time you need it!

 

[Andrew Middleton]

With reference to the W/S or Fiskar axe: I too bought one prior to my GB SFA and they are impressive. I bought the smallest one available and it is extremely handy about the garden and takes a fantastic edge. Very light for carrying in a rucksack as well. However, I bought the SFA on the justification it was larger (like I needed a larger one!) and that I am an undenaible kit-freak (no point in trying to hide that fact from my wife any longer).

I always walk past them in B&Q and have noticed that they don't do them anymore. B&Q are selling their own brand in similar colours, but nowhere near the quality. If you want to grab one of Fiskars, then check out B&Q quickly before they sell current stock.

 

[JakeR]

It was a good point Jack just made, about the kit Ray Mears uses.

OK Jack, i could go for a bill hook, but Ray doesnt use one, so i wont either (just kidding).

Best bet would probably be a wetterlings. I can put an edge on tools (i think)

Cheers,

Jake

 

[MartiniDave]

While I'd love a GB SFA I make do with a Spear and Jackson hatchet and a larger Bahco Sandvik axe. Both wear leather covers made from my old school satchel. Both were impulse buys seen in garden centres and bought for the correct grain direction of the handle. Half an hour sorting the edges and an hour to make the covers. Total cost about £35 the pair.
O.K., I know they aren't GB's but my wood pile doesn't.

Maybe we need a "frugal bushcrafter" section :-D
Dave

 

[boaty]

Maybe we need a "frugal bushcrafte" section :-D
Dave

Is there any other type of bushcrafter?! :?:

 

[Adi007]

Maybe we need a "frugal bushcrafter" section :-D
Dave

OK - but people who's signature reads "My other car is a Land Rover too!" wouldn't be allowed in! :biggthump

 

[MartiniDave]

Adi,

That no fair! Besides, its the landies that keep me frugal!

Cheers

Dave

 

[Stuart]

:rolmao:

 

[Adi007]

Adi,

That no fair! Besides, its the landies that keep me frugal!

Cheers

Dave

Talking about landies, I heard of one today with a Jaguar V12 engine in it from an XJ12 ... :shock: ... guy must be a pop star to be able to run that one!

 

[MartiniDave]

I hope he's done something to the brakes, especially if its series based! :shock:

Dave

 

[Adi007]

I hope he's done something to the brakes, especially if its series based! :shock:

Dave

And hopefully the steering, suspension ... bigger fuel tank ...

No idea if he has though ... hope he has if I ever meet him coming the other way!

Sometimes I feel the same about the V8 Stage 1 ... are drum brakes really good enough ...

 

[steve a]

when did they put breaks on them ?,emergency stop? throw the anchor out the back, in fact forget the emergeny bit.

 

[dtalbot]

Wetterlings are a bit cheaper than GB, but probably more than your limit

Probably your best bet is ebay, e.g. I found this very quickly, but dunno if its any good!

Look a lot like the ones I saw on Chesterfield market for £3.99 last week!
David

 

[boaty]

Look a lot like the ones I saw on Chesterfield market for £3.99 last week!
David

Ah, don't you just love ebayers? Will pay over the odds for some old tat just because they can do it from the comfort of their chair. Though sometimes you get a great bit of kit for next to nothing!

 

[FJS90-91]

I really prefer axes with wooden shaft so they can be reshafted easielly..

 

[the naughty boy]

i got a gransfors axe in the post today but according to the accompanying axe book it should have an axe guarantee card with it.
needless to say i didnt get one.
advice please guys

 

[Hoodoo]

Send 'em an email. I would go to their website and email them from there.

 

[Womble]

My guarentee card was stapled into the very back of the book. If I hadn't actually gone through the entire book the chances are I wouldn't have found it.

 

[the naughty boy]

well i never thought i would say this but next time im in the woods im leaving my kukuri at home and bringing my gb axe with me instead.the kuks a great tool but the axe is more usefull.
maybe i should just get one of the littleuns,the ones that look like toys?
or else get a bigger rucksack and bring em all!!!
by the way i came across this while taking a detour away from the public paths in castlewellan forrest park
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v135/thenaughtyboy/knife_037.jpg
someone had the same idea as me,wonder if they stayed overnight?