elbow adzes from ebay

[mr dazzler]

I found these on canada ebay. Bayviewman also does crook knives and other stuff. It doesnt show up on an ebay uk search for "elbow adze" even from international sellers??
He says he could produce an adze blade (no handle) so as to build your own tool for around $40 plus S&H

http://cgi.ebay.ca/NW-coast-style-w...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5886d4b6bc
http://cgi.ebay.ca/NW-coast-style-w...emQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5886d4cdd7

Might be of interest? Cant vouch for the guy as havent traded, only email contact as yet. But he and his brother are carvers and shoulld be able to make usable tools.....just a thought
cheers Jonathan

 

[Biker]

oooh now that's clever! Making something like that shouldn't be that difficult surely? Cunning use of having the 90 degree insert piece of wood in the head end for laminate effect strength. Short end grain like that would spilt otherwise.

Be sure to scroll down and look at the supersized images for greater detail.

 

[Peat]

Looks good. Seems like you might be able to get away with using a plane blade fore something like that?

 

[Tubbyfraser]

They look good, might be interested in the 2M. Good find.

Graeme

 

[jdlenton]

That's a great bit of kit and relatively straight forward to make. I love the way they have put a hard wood strip in the handle under the blade so the blade will secure well with the screw as they wont be trying to grip end grain.

 

[dogwood]

Those are nice adzes, thanks for pointing it out.

Here is a reproduction of the original design, with a stone blade:

You've got to love a design that's been used for 30,000 years or so...