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Now thats an AXE!

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Now thats an AXE!

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Now thats an AXE!

Todd Hughes


>Went to my every Tuesday Flea Market today up in NJ with the Miss Jazz but not much there for us probably because of the weather report that called for chance of rain. I did find this huge Double Bit Axe for $20. Is unusual in that the head is made out of aluminum and only weighs a pound or two. I am pretty certain it is what is called a Parade Axe, these were ceromonial axes carried in parades by fraternal groups like the Redmen and Fraternal Order of Woodmen. I sort of collect these things and have a wall with more then a couple on it, most are a bit fancier and less substantial then this example though.

....Julie got a kick out of it and enjoyed looking menacing as she carried it past a dealer she got in an altercation with last week which led to her losing her temper and cussing him out big time..... He didn't have anything to say this week !......Todd


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Re: Now thats an AXE!

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Re: Do you mean..

kevin French, Antrim, NH


>She had an Axe to grind with him?

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#3

Or maybe for light chopping?

Bill Houghton, fog can come back any time now, pls


>Maybe it's Stanley's attempt at using up the aluminum they had left after no one bought the aluminum-bodied planes.

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#4

Re: Or maybe for light chopping?

Edward J


>My 7 yr old son was rooting around in the garage this spring and comes out with a beat up axe, wanted to take it to school for the school play. Said I'd make him one instead. Knocked the axe head off and glued two pieces of 1/8"hardboard with the double blade pattern on the handle and then coated the blades with alumimum duct tape. Looks very similar to the axe illustrated. Axe made it's debut in the school play and now resides under my son's bed...

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#5

Be careful

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA


>Our older son had that sort of interest - when they hit the preteens and the hormones kick in, you wind up with a lot of firecrackers and stuff, and things like the plywood sword that I had to confiscate (sounds silly, but it really was a vicious kind of thing, the way he was flailing around with it).

Re: Now thats an AXE!

#6

Re: Be careful

ThomD


>In the Book of Five Rings Musashi kills/defeats his opponent with a wooden stick (part of an oar), though his opponent is strong and armed with a proper sword. Sticks and stones may well break one's bones...

The truth of these stories is sometimes questioned but not the idea that you can kill easily with a stick. The event may not have happened but the point survives.

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#7

Re: Be careful

Edward J


>Mmm...maybe it''s time to clean under the bed,and change the axe into something else....

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#8

Re: Be careful

Bruce, a MN Galoot


>A long time ago on rec.ww, there was a thread about which tool in the shop made the most effective weapon. Of course there were the usual responses: axes, chisels, blades of one sort or another. One guy had a gas charged nail gun. John Gunterman said that he'd had some very serious martial arts training and we wouldn't believe what he could do with a broom stick. That pretty much stopped the discussion.

Bruce, who has made a few bo staffs

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