@sparky415 That is such a generous offer which makes this place great, but for now, I don't posses the skill or material to make the handle just yet. I couldn't in my good conscience to get one from you, not knowing whether I could make the best out of it. May I take a rain check to this, and hopefully when I have more skill/time/material we could look into this again?
Quote from: comis on September 12, 2014, 07:51:45 PM@sparky415 That is such a generous offer which makes this place great, but for now, I don't posses the skill or material to make the handle just yet. I couldn't in my good conscience to get one from you, not knowing whether I could make the best out of it. May I take a rain check to this, and hopefully when I have more skill/time/material we could look into this again? I was trying to be clever and was not very clear I was going to send a complete axe (secondhand) which is a 'welcome to the Axe hole' gift from all the Axe users on here
to Tony.
Quote from: enki_ck on September 13, 2014, 12:35:15 AM to Tony. Just trying to clear a bit of space in my garage
Nice one! Hard to beat an axe as a gift that's awesome! Something about axes I just love, they are a single tools with so much versatility. Hopefully you get to try it out on some trees in your urban jungle or elsewhere. Where I grew up there was probably 10,000 times more trees than people in my village of 900. I was given (or borrowed and never returned ) my first axe by my dad when I was 10 and that was my trusty Estwing hatchet. I felled trees and dragged home the logs with a chain and my bicycle and built a mini log cabin/fort. Good times living in the middle of nowhere!
@Heinz Doofenshmirtz You bring home the question that I was wondering from the start--I think we will always find good axe selection at different price level, GB/Wetterlings/Fiskars/Estwing, they all have their merits and probably supporting users. I think another way to ask my newbie question is--are the high-end wooden axes, such as GB or Wettlings, susceptible to breaking/damage(broken/cracked handle/edge roll), even used by a newbie? Or are most wooden axes break somewhat easily? I consider myself a reasonable person, and even I might subject my edge tools to hard use from time to time(just like to know), but I never damage any tools to a irreversible state in life. For now, I don't posses the skill nor material to fix an axe handle if it were broken, so it would be nice to know before buying one as a newbie.