Gransfors Bruks Outdoor Axe - 09/15/10
Friends,
I have for sale a near-new Gransfors Bruks Outdoor Axe, their newest model (introduced 2010 or maybe late 2009). It's a darn good axe, quite a handy size, but it fulfills a role for which I already use a much-loved vintage Hudson Bay pattern Plumb Victory, so I'm going to sell it and buy a GB Large Splitting Axe. I bought it about a month ago and it's been to the woods only once. It's basically small splitting axe perfection, but I love my Plumb. See here:
GB Outdoor Axe (Ray Mears)
http://www.imaginegear.com/Gransfors-Bruks-425-OUTDOOR/Camping-Gear/Axes/-p8807648.html
It has a beautifully convexed edge and fairly full cheeks for splitting, and it splits fir like a champ. I used it to split three or four small chunks and that has been the extent of its use. No batonning. I did leather strop the edge but I never used a stone on it. There is a slight dent at the butt of the handle, and the strap on the sheath got a little chewed up somehow. Full disclosure: the sheath is junk anyway and if I were keeping the axe I would make a new one.
Again, this axe is all but new. Price is $160 to your door, a savings of $14 over the new price, not including shipping (and what I paid). For a buyer, I'll even throw in "The Axe Book" which is a nice little book that Gransfors includes with each axe.
I can send better pictures on request.
Thanks,
Dan
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I have for sale a near-new Gransfors Bruks Outdoor Axe, their newest model (introduced 2010 or maybe late 2009). It's a darn good axe, quite a handy size, but it fulfills a role for which I already use a much-loved vintage Hudson Bay pattern Plumb Victory, so I'm going to sell it and buy a GB Large Splitting Axe. I bought it about a month ago and it's been to the woods only once. It's basically small splitting axe perfection, but I love my Plumb. See here:
GB Outdoor Axe (Ray Mears)
http:/
It has a beautifully convexed edge and fairly full cheeks for splitting, and it splits fir like a champ. I used it to split three or four small chunks and that has been the extent of its use. No batonning. I did leather strop the edge but I never used a stone on it. There is a slight dent at the butt of the handle, and the strap on the sheath got a little chewed up somehow. Full disclosure: the sheath is junk anyway and if I were keeping the axe I would make a new one.
Again, this axe is all but new. Price is $160 to your door, a savings of $14 over the new price, not including shipping (and what I paid). For a buyer, I'll even throw in "The Axe Book" which is a nice little book that Gransfors includes with each axe.
I can send better pictures on request.
Thanks,
Dan
