Axes and Hatchets - beyond Home Depot and Walmart

automantic · Dec 29, 1999

Hi chetchat,

I like the design of the uluchet as well. I did not get one however as I did not wish to be accosted by police while walking down the street with it on my belt.

Couldn't they have come up a more discrete shealth than the "holster" type that they chose to supply it with?

Later,
John

Ossi · Dec 29, 1999

What do you think about this axe? http://www.roselli.fi/eng/products/RP.html

Looks good, and I have heard it really cuts better than most other light axes.

Ossi

P.J. · Dec 29, 1999

Automantic:
We're working on a different sheath, Kydex with a Tech-Lock multi-position belt clip, that only covers the head area of the Uluchet. Scott at Edgeworks said they should be ready around the middle of January.

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P.J.
P.J. Turner Knife Mfg, Inc.
Uluchet, What's an Uluchet? Find out at...
www.silverstar.com/turnermfg

automantic · Dec 29, 1999

Sounds good P.J. can't wait to see it!

Later,
John

P.S. That's what my idea was as well.

Hoodoo · Dec 29, 1999

Ossi,

Leave it to the Finns to come up with a dandy! That is one nice looking axe! Having toured the Finnish Forest Museum at Lusto, I know what a strong tradition the Finns have working with wood. And of course knives.

So it doesn't surprise me that they would make such an elegant axe.

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Hoodoo

There's no fool like an old fool. You just can't beat experience.
D.O. Flynn

dogboye · Dec 30, 1999

Does Estwing make a hatchet that does not have the hammer head on it (their "carpenter's hatchet")? I was looking today for one, and the only one that I could find, a really dandy piece, but it was the carpenter's hatchet. I was hoping I could find one more like the one shown above (at least, the shape of the hatchet head).

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"Absolute safety is for those who don't have the balls to live in the real world."

Jeff Clark · Dec 30, 1999

All the Estwing axes I have seen have a rectangular hammer surface opposite the edge. I prefer to have this since one of my primary uses is to pound tent stakes and break things. Here's a link to some Estwing products at Knifecenter.

http://www.knifecenter.com/knifecenter/estwing/menu.html

dogboye · Dec 31, 1999

DUH! You would think I would have 'thunk' of the Knifecenter!

OBTW, forgot. The one at Lowe's Home Center was definitely a carpenter's hatchet, with the hammer head on the back side, and definitely an Estwing. The ones on the Knifecenter are more like what I was interested in.

Thanks.

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"Absolute safety is for those who don't have the balls to live in the real world."

[This message has been edited by rockspyder (edited 31 December 1999).]