You sir own some lovely cutting tools. I really enjoy the feeling I get from taking an old hatchet from a yard sale or an axe head a friend gave me that was forged on his grandfather's farm 100 years ago and making them look nice and cut wood like something much more expensive. I enjoy using them, but I get great satisfaction from watching other people use them for the first time after I have restored, reground, or sharpened them hair shaving. The humble old plumb half hatchet, or carpenter's hatchet I picked up for $5 at a yard sale 20 years ago is probably my favorite thing to use around the yard and I take it with me on most camping trips because it isn't heavy and the hammer and nail puller are really handy to have around.
There's definitely something about having a hand in making or restoring a tool. Call me sentimental but a tool has history, whether it's a leatherman that's only seen five years of use or the carpenters draw knife that's shaved wood for 50 years.
Nice collection 👌 I have a few gransfor American felling axes that I like. A bit on the large size And a gransfor tomahawk that I got 30 years ago Cheers
I have axe envy looking at those magnificent tools. My Wetterlings Forest Axe is the pride of my collection. I have a 600 g vintage hatchet that is nearing the top of my "to restore" list. It'll be a bonnie little hatchet to pair up with my forest axe. Incidentally the old clipper style moras are still available, if you are lucky. Search for Bahco 2444 knife on eBay. They have orange sheaths and orange trim handles. If you are lucky you may find one in forest green. I have several, they are splendid little knives. Many thanks for your videos, they inspire me to go out and chop big bits of wood into progressively smaller bits of wood and then set fire to them. Smashing fun, even if it is in the garden. Best of all my son (9) thinks it is marvellous too. He and I have spent this evening comparing our Swiss Army Knife collection and I am putting handles on a few puukko style knives to give him, so that he can cut himself on them in the garden with me. Blood soaked wood doesn't burn so well until the fire is very hot, but is does burn eventually.
Lost my GB Forest Axe in France, now they are just too expensive to replace. I miss that one. Making do with the GB Small Forest Axe, but miss the perfect heft of the bigger one.
Great video Rob. Very informative. Just bought my first "proper" axe and I'm pleased to say that you rate it very highly. Gransfors Bruks Small Forest axe. Marked KS which I'm told means that it was forged by Sjolund Kjell-Ake. I also part own my Dad's Kelly Axe & Tool Co. Ontario, Canada axe. He purchased two of them when in Canada serving as ships chippy in the Merchant Navy in the 1950's. A quite short handled axe, but very well made. One got lost somewhere on his travels, but we still have this one.
Thankyou as always Rob nice collection there,I have 3 axes which serve me well so at least i wont be lusting over some item that chops or splits. The fact that you sell off things then buy them back is kind of a testament that no matter how crappy a knife or any other tool is its the skill of the user and the time put in getting used to a hand tool that makes for large improvements. Case in point I had a Ruger blackhawk .44 magnum in B C and took it to the range and shot it a few times and hated it, I complained to the guy next to me and asked him how to adjust the sights, he said let me try it, and proceeded to put all 6 bulllets in a 2 inch group at 20 yards, he smiled and said nothing wrong with the sights practice is all you need, and I did put thousands of rounds through it and loved that gun in the end. Sorry if I ramble mate got nothing better to do any more. Thanks for just being here and sharing your knowlege it is very welcome
Love the Swedish army axe. Small Forrest axe is superb, can't believe the price if them now, I paid £58 for mine year's ago before Mr mears spoke about them.
Very nice video again :). I have my wetterling's hatchet I am working over. Thinking about something like a forest axe, maybe a cold steel trailmaster. Anyhoo take care and thanks for sharing.
Nice one Rob, I think I’ve four of those 👍 I tend to gravitate to the splitters mostly nowadays but I’ve also a little Norlund hatchet which sees an awful lot of use
Nice collection there, Rob. A good few bob there in your shed 😜 I have the outdoor axe myself as it was the lightest decent pack axe I could find at the time. I also have a Wetterlings "boys axe" (I like the thicker handle myself) that is loosely equivalent to the GB small forest axe and the smallest of the Wetterlings hatchets, which is my go to favourite tool.
Lovely collection of axes Rob...Thanx for showing mate :-) Iv'e been pondering whether to buy a forest axe for over a year now or maybe even a hatchet...Still can't make my mind up, lol.
Hi Rob. I have used Estwing hammers for years, and still have one (leather handle) and consider them the King of hammers. I know they make axes and wood splitters as well. How come one hears so little about them (your comment about yours prompted this question). It seems to me that the makers of these famous hammers should make fine axes too. From what one can glean, it would appear on the surface that their axes seem pretty solid and durable. But are they "good" in the bush? Thanks, Cheers
Nice collection Rob.. most of my life I've always used old refurbished axe heads and rehung them myself 😁 got a small forest axe a few years back for a present and hated it, thought it was a toy.. bit controversial but hey ho..have a look at a tuatahi camp axe..best tool for getting any job done.splitting,chopping, not so good at carving out spoon blanks but I manage 😁 can't beat a Tasmanian pattern,jmo ..all the best Lincoln 🤙
Another cracking video mate! Impressive collection you got there. Happy to see that you appreciate the Swedish quality axes! They are a bit on the pricey side but if you only buy them once (!) they will last you a lifetime 😃
Hi Rob I’m waiting in anticipation for your forthcoming Falkniven knife collection review. I have an original Falkniven F2 in VG10, it is quite a bit thicker than the F2’s they produce now, the F2 is / was marketed as a fillet knife for fishing, mine is more like a boning knife being much more robust. I did find it a challenge to get a good edge on the convex grind however, I sent it to a knife maker who put a microbevel on it, to make it easier to sharpen. One of your pet hates I suspect! I would like to get a Falkniven R2 scout in Elmax and was encouraged having watched your review, it’s to be used as a smallish general outdoor / hunting knife including the gutting of shot deer. I am however a bit reluctant to buy it due to the convex grind, so I am also looking at a cold steel master hunter as an alternative. how do you think these two knives compare and what would you recommend to be the best steel for the master hunter if I went that way. Which knife would you choose? Due to the popularity of Falkniven knives, do you think you could do a video, specifically around sharpening and maintaining the convex edge on these knives? I’m sure it would be well received. Keep up the excellent work with the channel. Regards Paul.
Hi Paul, I'm a big fan of the master hunter, an excellent knife, the secondary bevel is far easier to maintain than the convex, If I was buying a general purpose knife to also be used for processing larger game like deer I would probably go for the sanmai version due to its thicker spine and grind but if I was only using one for large game I'd swing towards the 3v as it's slimmer stock , deeper blade , 3v isn't stainless from my experience so it would need to be thoroughly cleaned after use, basically I'd go for the sanmai!
I like those overview videos. I see so much similarities to what I use myself so I know how good and efficient most of that stuff is. Great minds think alike it seems. ;) And as I've already mentioned under your knife collection video it did kinda help me to finally get me out of that spiral to shrink down my already meager 'collection' even further, especially since I regret selling really great gear that I didn't have a use for anymore years ago but now all of a sudden could come in really handy again the more and more I go out - after going through all this hospital crap for months/years. Btw. Gabriel Brånby sent me the Wetterlings Hudson Bay years ago and it quickly became my favourite axe. I wouldn't prefer it over an axe with a slimmer profile and a balance/weight ratio more suited for felling when I need to cut down a high amount of trees for e.g. building a cabin but for every outdoor/camp-related axe chores it's probably the perfect axe for me.
Rob, you gave me ax envy! Can you tell me what length the handle on Swiss Army is? I have the same head and still not sure what length for the handle to haft it. Somewhere in the 32 inch I suppose. On my woods Chogan t- hawk, I cut the beefy part on the poll off. About an inch. And I don't regret it. I have 4 of the same GB's, 2 you don't but you have 3 I don't. I should have bought the Husky you have, but I bought the Carpenter ax instead. I would trade it for the Husky forest (?) ax. I have the CS pipe hawk, I would trade it for the trail hawk. And 2 Hults Bruks. One is quite nice, one is botched from the factory. Should have sent it back but... kept it for a project I'm to lazy to begin. And the Wetterlings felling ax and Outdoor ax. I always keep an eye out for the Worlds Finest Kelly Dandenong, made in England. :)
wow, almost identical collection except for larger splitting axes. I am more in to the hand ax category. I kept waiting for your Karesuando (sp?) belt ax but,nope
Nice collection Rob. Thanks for doing this one! Ive been looking forward to it. I dig that Wildlife Hatchet, see one coming in my future. I think that mask works pretty well with it too. I was wondering if you still had that Husky. I watched all your mod vids on it. Great job as usual . Thanks again! 🙏🏻
Thanks for showing your hatchet, tomahawk and axe collection. You definitely one many more than I! Just out of curiosity: What is a survival axe? What attributes must an axe have, to make it a 'good survival axe'?
Hi there. Did you ever try a Rinaldi axe ? They're pretty cheap and i hear good things about them, but I don't see any bushcrafter or wood person youtuber using them...
@@RobEvansWoodsman I was curious.It is a multifunctional car,a bit like a prepers car :) I have Citrien berlingo 1.9d and I am thinking of micro camper conversion or just a camping ready car.
It's an SUV , Ford Kuga , in the USA it's called the Ford Escape. there are companies out there that make the micro camper conversion kits for the Berlingo, there's a company in North Wales called Amdro that do them, l have a friend which has one in his Berlingo. l'll probably be finishing work to go full time knife maker next year so i'm looking at changing vehicles , l have a VW T5 long wheelbase for work and the kuga which im thinking of swapping for a short wheelbase T6 with 5 seats and four wheel drive, but thats going to be expensive!
You sir own some lovely cutting tools. I really enjoy the feeling I get from taking an old hatchet from a yard sale or an axe head a friend gave me that was forged on his grandfather's farm 100 years ago and making them look nice and cut wood like something much more expensive. I enjoy using them, but I get great satisfaction from watching other people use them for the first time after I have restored, reground, or sharpened them hair shaving. The humble old plumb half hatchet, or carpenter's hatchet I picked up for $5 at a yard sale 20 years ago is probably my favorite thing to use around the yard and I take it with me on most camping trips because it isn't heavy and the hammer and nail puller are really handy to have around.
There's definitely something about having a hand in making or restoring a tool. Call me sentimental but a tool has history, whether it's a leatherman that's only seen five years of use or the carpenters draw knife that's shaved wood for 50 years.
Great video. Axes are my favourite tool. I do like my Wildlife Hatchet, but can see why the Small Forest Axe makes a great all rounder.
Nice collection 👌
I have a few gransfor American felling axes that I like.
A bit on the large size
And a gransfor tomahawk that I got 30 years ago
Cheers
Excellent Rob 👍 you must have a massive pile of miscellaneous sheaths mate 😂 gotta be a vid all of its own 😂
Another classic video, thanks for sharing your stuff!
I have axe envy looking at those magnificent tools. My Wetterlings Forest Axe is the pride of my collection. I have a 600 g vintage hatchet that is nearing the top of my "to restore" list. It'll be a bonnie little hatchet to pair up with my forest axe. Incidentally the old clipper style moras are still available, if you are lucky. Search for Bahco 2444 knife on eBay. They have orange sheaths and orange trim handles. If you are lucky you may find one in forest green. I have several, they are splendid little knives.
Many thanks for your videos, they inspire me to go out and chop big bits of wood into progressively smaller bits of wood and then set fire to them. Smashing fun, even if it is in the garden.
Best of all my son (9) thinks it is marvellous too. He and I have spent this evening comparing our Swiss Army Knife collection and I am putting handles on a few puukko style knives to give him, so that he can cut himself on them in the garden with me. Blood soaked wood doesn't burn so well until the fire is very hot, but is does burn eventually.
Great to hear that you and your son are bonding over tools and fire!
Thanks for the support mate.
Lost my GB Forest Axe in France, now they are just too expensive to replace. I miss that one. Making do with the GB Small Forest Axe, but miss the perfect heft of the bigger one.
Great video Rob. Very informative. Just bought my first "proper" axe and I'm pleased to say that you rate it very highly. Gransfors Bruks Small Forest axe. Marked KS which I'm told means that it was forged by Sjolund Kjell-Ake. I also part own my Dad's Kelly Axe & Tool Co. Ontario, Canada axe. He purchased two of them when in Canada serving as ships chippy in the Merchant Navy in the 1950's. A quite short handled axe, but very well made. One got lost somewhere on his travels, but we still have this one.
Thankyou as always Rob nice collection there,I have 3 axes which serve me well so at least i wont be lusting over some item that chops or splits. The fact that you sell off things then buy them back is kind of a testament that no matter how crappy a knife or any other tool is its the skill of the user and the time put in getting used to a hand tool that makes for large improvements. Case in point I had a Ruger blackhawk .44 magnum in B C and took it to the range and shot it a few times and hated it, I complained to the guy next to me and asked him how to adjust the sights, he said let me try it, and proceeded to put all 6 bulllets in a 2 inch group at 20 yards, he smiled and said nothing wrong with the sights practice is all you need, and I did put thousands of rounds through it and loved that gun in the end. Sorry if I ramble mate got nothing better to do any more. Thanks for just being here and sharing your knowlege it is very welcome
Ramble away mate, i have plenty of time to read it.
Pretty awesome collection! Love it!
Love the Swedish army axe.
Small Forrest axe is superb, can't believe the price if them now, I paid £58 for mine year's ago before Mr mears spoke about them.
I know, I'm sure I paid less than £60.
Very nice collection.
Thank you
Very nice video again :). I have my wetterling's hatchet I am working over. Thinking about something like a forest axe, maybe a cold steel trailmaster. Anyhoo take care and thanks for sharing.
Hey Rob,
mooie collectie , love it
grtz. uit Holland , Janneman
Nice one Rob, I think I’ve four of those 👍 I tend to gravitate to the splitters mostly nowadays but I’ve also a little Norlund hatchet which sees an awful lot of use
You told me about the wetterlings Forrest axe 👍
I've been looking forward to this one!
Great collection,Wetterlings Hudson Bay is something special, nice series of vids
Great video Rob! Quite the collection you got there, always a pleasure watching your videos, very informative.
Cracking collection. 👍
Thanks 👍
nice collection i would love to see you make a knife model you like
all the best Rob take care
Nice collection there, Rob. A good few bob there in your shed 😜
I have the outdoor axe myself as it was the lightest decent pack axe I could find at the time. I also have a Wetterlings "boys axe" (I like the thicker handle myself) that is loosely equivalent to the GB small forest axe and the smallest of the Wetterlings hatchets, which is my go to favourite tool.
Mmm axes...♥️
Lovely collection of axes Rob...Thanx for showing mate :-) Iv'e been pondering whether to buy a forest axe for over a year now or maybe even a hatchet...Still can't make my mind up, lol.
get both.
Hi Rob.
I have used Estwing hammers for years, and still have one (leather handle) and consider them the King of hammers. I know they make axes and wood splitters as well.
How come one hears so little about them (your comment about yours prompted this question).
It seems to me that the makers of these famous hammers should make fine axes too. From what one can glean, it would appear on the surface that their axes seem pretty solid and durable. But are they "good" in the bush?
Thanks,
Cheers
They are good quality axes and durable but they are limited to what they are capable of with one grip and a very thin hollow grind.
Great vid again rob .
Nice collection Rob.. most of my life I've always used old refurbished axe heads and rehung them myself 😁 got a small forest axe a few years back for a present and hated it, thought it was a toy.. bit controversial but hey ho..have a look at a tuatahi camp axe..best tool for getting any job done.splitting,chopping, not so good at carving out spoon blanks but I manage 😁 can't beat a Tasmanian pattern,jmo ..all the best Lincoln 🤙
Another cracking video mate! Impressive collection you got there. Happy to see that you appreciate the Swedish quality axes! They are a bit on the pricey side but if you only buy them once (!) they will last you a lifetime 😃
I learn my lesson the second time.
Hi Rob
I’m waiting in anticipation for your forthcoming Falkniven knife collection review. I have an original Falkniven F2 in VG10, it is quite a bit thicker than the F2’s they produce now, the F2 is / was marketed as a fillet knife for fishing, mine is more like a boning knife being much more robust. I did find it a challenge to get a good edge on the convex grind however, I sent it to a knife maker who put a microbevel on it, to make it easier to sharpen. One of your pet hates I suspect!
I would like to get a Falkniven R2 scout in Elmax and was encouraged having watched your review, it’s to be used as a smallish general outdoor / hunting knife including the gutting of shot deer. I am however a bit reluctant to buy it due to the convex grind, so I am also looking at a cold steel master hunter as an alternative. how do you think these two knives compare and what would you recommend to be the best steel for the master hunter if I went that way. Which knife would you choose?
Due to the popularity of Falkniven knives, do you think you could do a video, specifically around sharpening and maintaining the convex edge on these knives? I’m sure it would be well received.
Keep up the excellent work with the channel.
Regards Paul.
Hi Paul, I'm a big fan of the master hunter, an excellent knife, the secondary bevel is far easier to maintain than the convex, If I was buying a general purpose knife to also be used for processing larger game like deer I would probably go for the sanmai version due to its thicker spine and grind but if I was only using one for large game I'd swing towards the 3v as it's slimmer stock , deeper blade , 3v isn't stainless from my experience so it would need to be thoroughly cleaned after use, basically I'd go for the sanmai!
I like those overview videos. I see so much similarities to what I use myself so I know how good and efficient most of that stuff is. Great minds think alike it seems. ;)
And as I've already mentioned under your knife collection video it did kinda help me to finally get me out of that spiral to shrink down my already meager 'collection' even further, especially since I regret selling really great gear that I didn't have a use for anymore years ago but now all of a sudden could come in really handy again the more and more I go out - after going through all this hospital crap for months/years.
Btw. Gabriel Brånby sent me the Wetterlings Hudson Bay years ago and it quickly became my favourite axe. I wouldn't prefer it over an axe with a slimmer profile and a balance/weight ratio more suited for felling when I need to cut down a high amount of trees for e.g. building a cabin but for every outdoor/camp-related axe chores it's probably the perfect axe for me.
Rob, you gave me ax envy! Can you tell me what length the handle on Swiss Army is? I have the same head and still not sure what length for the handle to haft it. Somewhere in the 32 inch I suppose. On my woods Chogan t- hawk, I cut the beefy part on the poll off. About an inch. And I don't regret it.
I have 4 of the same GB's, 2 you don't but you have 3 I don't. I should have bought the Husky you have, but I bought the Carpenter ax instead. I would trade it for the Husky forest (?) ax. I have the CS pipe hawk, I would trade it for the trail hawk. And 2 Hults Bruks. One is quite nice, one is botched from the factory. Should have sent it back but... kept it for a project I'm to lazy to begin. And the Wetterlings felling ax and Outdoor ax.
I always keep an eye out for the
Worlds Finest Kelly Dandenong, made in England. :)
Some nice choppers there. Gransfors could put a bit more effort into the masks considering the price you pay. 5K subs! You've hit the big time!
not there yet mate.
have an extensive hatchet/hand ax collection. Had identical situation with my Gransforth wildlife and outdoor axe.
looks like we have similar interests in knives and axes on axes we many duplicates and a few knives
wow, almost identical collection except for larger splitting axes. I am more in to the hand ax category. I kept waiting for your Karesuando (sp?) belt ax but,nope
not an axe I ever considerd buying.
Nice collection Rob. Thanks for doing this one! Ive been looking forward to it. I dig that Wildlife Hatchet, see one coming in my future. I think that mask works pretty well with it too. I was wondering if you still had that Husky. I watched all your mod vids on it. Great job as usual . Thanks again! 🙏🏻
still have it, i only filmed this last weekend and it's in the video
Thanks for showing your hatchet, tomahawk and axe collection. You definitely one many more than I!
Just out of curiosity: What is a survival axe? What attributes must an axe have, to make it a 'good survival axe'?
In my eyes a survival axe should be able to do the job of a regular axe , be a useful weapon and be capable of other tasks.
Hi there. Did you ever try a Rinaldi axe ? They're pretty cheap and i hear good things about them, but I don't see any bushcrafter or wood person youtuber using them...
Never heard of it.
I'll check it out.
Can you make a video with presenting all your backpacks?
I have no plans to do that.
What car do you have?Nice video Rob.
Ford Kuga ST line X
Why?
@@RobEvansWoodsman I was curious.It is a multifunctional car,a bit like a prepers car :) I have Citrien berlingo 1.9d and I am thinking of micro camper conversion or just a camping ready car.
It's an SUV , Ford Kuga , in the USA it's called the Ford Escape.
there are companies out there that make the micro camper conversion kits for the Berlingo, there's a company in North Wales called Amdro that do them, l have a friend which has one in his Berlingo.
l'll probably be finishing work to go full time knife maker next year so i'm looking at changing vehicles , l have a VW T5 long wheelbase for work and the kuga which im thinking of swapping for a short wheelbase T6 with 5 seats and four wheel drive, but thats going to be expensive!