Axe Display

junker · 28th February 2010, 06:00 PM

Hi broadaxe,
thanks for your idea.
Because they are too heavy axes will lie in my cupboard since now. This one is the biggest one and need a lot of place in it, so i search for a different kind of displaying it.
The seller told me it was used by fishermans, but i wont agree with that.
Dirk

broadaxe · 1st March 2010, 10:33 AM

Fisherman's?

good one... fishermen used mostly large cleavers, sometimes of special form. Here in Israel, they like the british WWII machetes.
I have to see its other side and geometry - is it canted, "side axe", or symmetrical.
Either way, it is a very nice european woodworking axe, judging from it shape to be 17th to late 18th century. That shape has currently been defined as "beheading axe" (not so wrongly though).
Weight & size of the axes are the reasons I have chosen the fence segments - it is very strong, can support the weight and also distribute the weight suspended from the wall. Wood beams will do as close.

Matchlock · 30th March 2010, 01:40 AM

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Originally Posted by junker

Hi broadaxe,
thanks for your idea.
Because they are too heavy axes will lie in my cupboard since now. This one is the biggest one and need a lot of place in it, so i search for a different kind of displaying it.
The seller told me it was used by fishermans, but i wont agree with that.
Dirk

Hi Dirk,

Maybe 13th to 14th century - by the latest.

Congrats and best wishes,
Michael

28th February 2010, 06:00 PM	#1
junker Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 140	thanks Hi broadaxe, thanks for your idea. Because they are too heavy axes will lie in my cupboard since now. This one is the biggest one and need a lot of place in it, so i search for a different kind of displaying it. The seller told me it was used by fishermans, but i wont agree with that. Dirk Attached Images

1st March 2010, 10:33 AM	#2
broadaxe Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 334	Fisherman's? good one... fishermen used mostly large cleavers, sometimes of special form. Here in Israel, they like the british WWII machetes. I have to see its other side and geometry - is it canted, "side axe", or symmetrical. Either way, it is a very nice european woodworking axe, judging from it shape to be 17th to late 18th century. That shape has currently been defined as "beheading axe" (not so wrongly though). Weight & size of the axes are the reasons I have chosen the fence segments - it is very strong, can support the weight and also distribute the weight suspended from the wall. Wood beams will do as close.