![]() ![]() Many good reproductions of battleaxes are still available and popular with collectors as well as martial artists. Today’s combat tomahawk, used by special forces soldiers, copies that old form in a smaller design useful both for fighting and for camp chores. The oldest combat axes served dual purposes as tools for woodsmen and farmers - broad axes in particular, designed for hewing round logs into squared timbers, often went to war virtually unchanged.įor mayhem, the axe evolved in many directions, from heavy double axes with crescent blades to battleaxes with blades for chopping and slashing and spiked pommels for driving holes through armor plate. To find axe techniques, students of that old skill now go to the few Asian martial routines based on this heavy blade.Ĭombat axes evolved into specialty blades designed for nothing else but combat and were often combined with spears to add chopping attacks to the long range thrust of the pike. In fact, many of the combat applications once used by Americans who carried tomahawks into battle are now lost. Though the axe played an important role on ancient battlefields, only the smaller styles still find official use by the military. I would not however recommend this as a camp axe, though it is capable of chopping wood, this axe was designed for use against.other types of substances than wood.Certainly the current interest in the martial axe results more from the virtual worlds of video gaming than a curiosity about history. I'd recommend it to anyone looking to expand their battle-ready blade collection, zombie apocalypse weapon connoisseur, or anyone else looking for a REAL battle axe. To conclude, this axe is a beautifully and thoughtfully constructed weapon. The blade needs to be held almost completely backwards in order for contact with the lower forearms to happen. The handle can be twisted back and forth with your hands placed anywhere on the handle without the blade coming into contact with them or your wrists. The curve of the lower blade stands far enough away from the handle to allow for easy and worry free sliding of the hand up and down the shaft into any position with no contact to yourself. The axe-head design clearly had some thought put into it. ![]() There are multiple comfortable grip points on the handle which accommodate all of the "standard" hand positions, but don't interfere with creativity and adaptation. The handle is intuitively built, and the curve of the bottom half creates a kukri-like effect with the blade which can greatly increase the cleaving power of the axe when used on softer substances. An accident with this blade could be very unfortunate indeed. The blade arrived very sharp, not paper-slicing sharp, but still enough that I need to be careful when swinging it around. Almost like Kratos' battle axe from the new GOW games. It is built to look like an older historical battle axe, but with modern flare. This is not the first Honshu blade that I've ordered, and certainly won't be the last. Well I suppose that first of all I'll say that I'm extremely satisfied with this weapon. ![]()
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