"Bearded axes"........???

[3006guns]

Who is the best maker of bearded ("viking") axes? There are quite a few vendors on the internet, but only a few claim that their axes can be thrown and NONE of them actually mention being able to use it as an axe around camp.

I'd really like to have one but it has to be a quality tool, not just a toy, and do work. Something with an inserted/hammer welded edge would be perfect if available.

[220swiftfn]

Don't know about "best" but Therion arms at least touts theirs as being forged..... I snapped an Albion skeggox on a throw, but the other one is still around, so *shrug* 50%???

Anywho, the one at Therionarms.com looks to be made well enough to be worked (thick in all the right places.....)



Dan

[3006guns]

Thanks Dan, I'll take a peek.

[flounderman]

this is an aside to the viking axe. I was in kiev, ukraine going thru their museums. the vikings were there a 1000 years ago. must have had good genes because thats where all those beautiful ukraine women can trace their ancestry back to. I was looking for viking axes in the museum and only saw small, hatchet sized axe heads. stands to reason the big axes you see pictured with vikings would be clumsy to use as a weapon. the tomahawk would be a lot faster and that is more what the heads I saw looked like. no doubt they had large axes to work with. the heads I saw were bronze it looked like. saw a ring, I would have liked to have seen the man that wore it.

[blademasterii]

Brouse Youtube.. Find someone making one like you want and try to contact them to make one for you. If it is hand forged the likelyhood of you breaking it are slim to not bloody likely. If I had my shop setup here like I used to I would make you one. You might also try evil bay and look up railroad spike hatchet. Pretty sure there will be some of those around.

[3006guns]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I should have been a little more specific....I'm looking for what would be a tomahawk size "belt" axe, but with a wider bearded blade. In other words a handy, useful, moderate sized tool......not some fantasy example of a "battle axe" which would be totally useless. Such an axe could be used as a tool...or weapon if need be...which is exactly what they were used for by the "Nordic boys".

[scb]

Check out these folks.
http://www.rmjtactical.com/

[Marvin S]

Www.2hawks.net I think might have what you want.

[Frank46]

Try trackofthe wolf.com. I think they have one or two viking style axes. Frank

[220swiftfn]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I should have been a little more specific....I'm looking for what would be a tomahawk size "belt" axe, but with a wider bearded blade. In other words a handy, useful, moderate sized tool......not some fantasy example of a "battle axe" which would be totally useless. Such an axe could be used as a tool...or weapon if need be...which is exactly what they were used for by the "Nordic boys".

Well, the Therion ones look to be useful, the single-handed head is 7 3/4" long with a 4" edge.... The two handed looks to be about 8-9" long with a 5 3/4" edge (as an aside, the Albion that I was throwing was closer to the two-handed head, and it definitely hit with "authority"....) So the question is "what are you going to be using it for"??? If you're looking for a good all around "camp axe/hatchet" go for the one-handed. If you're thinking of using it for what the Norse used them for, (no, not THAT, I'm talking about planing timber, that's what the "beard" was FOR.....) then get the two-handed and shorten the shaft a bit........


Dan

[badge176]

These guys are local to me, I've owned several items and I love how my med sized broad axe "sings" when rapped with a knuckle.

http://www.armor.com/polearms.html

[FLINTNFIRE]

the gun works in springfield oregon , carrys a few cast and forged hawks and the like
http://www.thegunworks.com/custprodgun.cfm?ProductID=42&do=detail&Cat2Option=no

[3006guns]

Wow.......I honestly expected something like one or two responses! Cast Boolits has once again proven to be one big family of knowledge and help. Thanks everyone....it's going to take a little time to digest all the different offerings!

[Silvercreek Farmer]

If you are still following this thread. These folks make awesome axes. You could (and still can) shave with mine.

http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/produkter/new_prod/p_kastyxa.html

[Gisli]

You know guys that "skegg " does not only mean a beard, but also many thing that protrude.
"Skegg" actually only referres to the lowest part of the axe
The word skeggöxi tells me that it is simply broad ax. We used them extensively during the viking period. After that, in the12 century, they ceased to be a weapon and became a household tool.

[TCLouis]

Someone explained the good looking "Viking" women to me.

Viking was not a group of people it was an activity . . .

They went "A Viking" . . . That is to kill, steal, rape, pillage and kidnap the best looking women to take back home for entertainment purposes.

[Idaho Sharpshooter]

there are quite a few artisans at the Contemporary Longrifle Association website that build to specs, or have patterns of actual ones in use during the Colonial Era here.

Rich