Designer axes
Best Made Axes are designer axes made to last lifetimes, and to look good in "every high-rise condo, luxury office, executive suite, ranch house, and farmstead."
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Best Made Axes are designer axes made to last lifetimes, and to look good in "every high-rise condo, luxury office, executive suite, ranch house, and farmstead."
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a bit of axe-lore: before using any axe, pause a moment and hold it one handed, dangling, blade down and out, upright grip at butt of handle. Look down the shaft and see how it's headed. A well-hafted plain axe will be aligned fair (straight) and won't skip off and take your leg with it. Learnt that one from a former scoutmaster who had to learn to walk without a kneecap.
Also, as with any blade, keep it sharp. A sharp blade is also less likely to slip and hurt you than a dull one.
I know someone who would LOVE THIS!
(Glossy paint right where you'd grip it? Doesn't seem like a great idea).
I think they varnish over the colour.
quality control
http://johneaves.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the_shining1.jpg
now a designer chainsaw is something i might be interested in. standard huskuvarny orange is a bit, well, con-ventional.
Patrick Bateman would love these!
A few years ago, I purchased one of these:
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=2&p=44448&cat=2,45794&ap=1
The photo doesn't do it justice: it's gorgeous!
People will buy anything! Hat's off to folks who can pull this level of marketing markup off, though Bernie Madoff had them beat for a while.
The Maine factory of Snow and Neally makes excellent axes which retail in the forty dollar range. They wholesale for less. If I want a painted axe handle, well, a little paint and tape, some time, sanding and varnish will do the trick.
being from Bad Axe, MI I find all this talk about 'pretty' axes disheartening!
And yes a real town, slowing dying with the change in economies. Oh well....
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/05/07/best-made-axes-are-f.html
Does feet are for greenhorns.
Don't oversharpen an axe used for splitting. It'll just get stuck in the block; hollow-grind it slightly instead.
Hewing axes and broadaxes should be razor sharp, though.
All-purpose axe should be as heavy and long-handled as you can comfortably use, sharp but not too sharp, with a slightly arched bevel (not dead straight like a chisel) and a slight hollow grind behind the arch (not too much or it gets stuck hewing).
#7) Lee Valley Tools headquarters is minutes from my house. I'm a gadget freak, coming from a long proud line of gadget freaks and tool nuts. My relatives LOVE coming to visit for some reason...
The thing that caught my attention this morning was Best Made Co. Designer Axe Handles.
Link: http://www.bestmadeco.com/FEATURES/about/aboutus.html
Best Made Co.'s designer axe handles are interesting; just imagine Best Made Co. selling designer lynching ropes. For me, I am in a weird position. I am sure Best Made Co has good intentions but the racial historical connotation of the ax handle is dark especially in my hometown Jacksonville, Florida.
From Wikipedia on Ax Handle Saturday:
“Jacksonville has a history of racial segregation and violence. This came to a head on "Ax Handle Saturday", August 27, 1960. A group of white men (allegedly some were also members of the Ku Klux Klan) armed with baseball bats and ax handles attacked civil rights protesters conducting sit-ins at segregated downtown restaurants. The violence spread, and the white mob started attacking all African-Americans in sight. Rumors were rampant on both sides that the unrest was spreading around the county (in reality, the violence stayed in relatively the same location, and did not spill over into the mostly-white, upper-class Cedar Hills neighborhood, for example). The police did not make an attempt to stop the violence until the "blacks started holding their own."”
Basically on August 13th 1960 the NAACP Youth Council began doing sit ins in downtown Jacksonville. This eventually lead to ax handle Saturday. However, the FBI knew about the event and warned the Sherriff at the time Dale Carson (I think) however either the warning was intercepted or Dale didn’t care much as on Saturday he was vacationing in St. Augustine, Florida. Normally there are 4 – 5 police officers stationed in downtown, where were they to protect the black people?
Also in the 1960’s there was another shop owned by an extremely racist man that held an ax handle in it is window in designer style. The style the owner chose was a confederate flag to be hung with the ax handle. Talk about intimidating?
I just wanted everyone to know some history of the ax handle and how it was used to be bashed across the head of innocent black people that could have simply been in the wrong place at the wrong time. I just want people to know about this.
Good lord.
If you can honestly delude yourself to the point where you honestly believe a $300 axe is fundamentally superior to, and does a better job than, a $40 axe...well...I'm simply speechless.
I bet scant few of these things ever so much as touch wood...except to pose next to the fireplace with the $100 pre-cut bundle of logs.
Are these intended to be fire axes and hang in an office?
Beanolini @3:
My thoughts exactly.
Do they sell the handles separately? Have they been "road tested," I mean can you club hippies with 'em?
Hippies are immune to clubbing by rainbow colored handle.
Only the most fashionable Wall St psycho collects the finest axes available to match their apartment decoration.
Now that is what I refer to as random ax of beauty.