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Here are a few small axe designs, from back when axes were the primary tool of the home, and there were many different types for distinct purposes (and any blacksmith could make one of his own design). These are general purpose outdoor survival and fighting tools.
Today, there a far fewer types made, most are probably optimized for ease of production.
I guess that the bottom line is to decide what you want to do with the tool before you get too attached to a particular look.
What would you guys (especially QPs) want to be able to do with an axe, if one was part of your kit?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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