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20th October 2020, 09:42 PM | #1 |
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Do you think it may have started like this one?
If the end piece of the wooden shaft split or broke they may have inserted a "cap" into the crown at the top. Regards Roy |
20th October 2020, 10:43 PM | #2 | |
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Sure and yours was probably caped with a brass or iron finial. |
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21st October 2020, 09:39 AM | #3 |
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Anything's possible, my new one's haft looks like there is a deliberately short wider undercut section not seen on the ones with the long conical finials. Kind of like a checker nailed to a narrower cylinder. (Might even be 2 part like that in reality, will know on arrival)
The heads are in any case, all set from the butt up into a slight increasing taper at the top, like a tomahawk, rather than top down like a western axe. |
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