Kit review - Gransfors bruks small forest axe

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In this video I take a look at the gransfors bruks Small Forest axe. An excellent bit of kit!

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hi guys what I've got for you today is I'm gonna be having a look at this which is the grandfather's Brooks small forest hatchet now you may have seen my video already on my smaller wildlife hatchet and this is pretty much the slightly bigger version of that so a couple of reasons first why I decided to get myself one of these axes well the wildlife hatch is absolutely fantastic it's great girls need a pat weber with a certain job that it's not really opportu so it's not really fantastic for splitting large bits of water that's what have you what have you so I decided to go for this it's got a little bit more heft behind it it's got a slightly longer shaft on it which means that you can get some real welly behind it well let's have a look at the axe itself so as you can probably see from in the video there this is absolutely 100% brand new I haven't actually used this y'all ready oh no that's a lie I've chopped one stick with it just to test it out when I bought it so this is the state which it comes in same with the wildlife hatch it comes with this really nice axe head cover on it which opens up just like so so I look rested on it it comes off like that one thing to be careful of with these they are very very nice they're very nice brown leather which means they're fantastically Calipari always make sure you stick this straight in the pocket when little treatment Steve and the pocket nurse or don't lose it so the axe has a convex bevel on it which is fantastic for an axe because it means that it keeps his edge much better and when it arrives it hasn't been sharp and I'm not touched at all it's got a really key edge and it's very very sharp so that is that is really good so you can get this straight off the shelf and go straight into using it I might put a slightly sharper edge on it myself it's not quite a shaving edge on there what to be honest with a split and actually don't really need that but I want to use this for a couple of other things as well the axe head on one side probably just met out there it says was it say says a s on it though the initials of the guy that made it all the grants for Zacks is a handmade and not mass-produced

or they are moshpit mass-produced but the must produce by hand so you get a really good quality piece of kit move aside they've got the quran's 4 stamp as usual which is also you can see on the Hat there as well now the haft on this is quite a bit longer than the other one it is roughly about the same length as my forearm which makes it really really nice you can get quite a big decent swing on that without it being too heavy or too cumbersome quite come clearly carry this in your bag not entirely sure what the weight of this is but to be honest it's worth that little bit of extra weight it has got quite a bit of a hefty head on it it does weigh a little bit more than the wildlife hatchet is a slightly larger head not much larger this bits a bit longer and this bit is a little deeper

well yeah it's really good another half I just like the different shape now initially I didn't like this shape because the wildlife hatchet is really comfortable to hold like so for carving or whatever and this one is actually it's actually got quite a pronounced kind of curve here really sharp curve on it initially I didn't really like that however after kind of sitting around and practice and holding it a little bit I found that the nicest way to hold this if you get your second knuckle here and then just wrap that around the hat just over were the grounds for stamp is actually

really comfortable it's also got the little loop at the bottom here now I'm not going to use this loop in this ax this loop tends to be so you can put a piece of cordage through which will wrap around your wrist and give you a much nicer hole in it but I'm not going to do that with this one because it's going to be mainly for splitting and doing larger work because the length and the weight of this actually could quite easily fell a small sapling very very easily which is great for constructing tripods stuff when you're on camp and and yeah it's got a Hickory handle this one's got a really nice grain at the shop that I went in to get this they were really really nice with me and they allowed me to pick and ax with the nicest grains really nice look at that does need a bit of an oil bit of a bit of linseed on it and the axe head does need a little bit of an oiling as well it's been obviously been in the shop for quite a while and it's got rust but a little bit of tarnish on the blade they're probably not even enough to make that out really just on the blade here so I'm probably gonna oil that once or sharpen it as well so let's have a little bit of a look at it in practice shall we so I'm going to start with a small bit like this so let's talk about cleaning it up just a piece of coarse and fine there see I'm using quite a lot of control not quite as much control over this kind of work as you do with the wildlife at sea because you've got this bit swinging around but if this was a much larger supplement is fantastic now I'm just gonna give this so you can get a nice point on that stick our beautiful don't strengthen it no problem at all that's a really clean core there you go let's have a look at that cut really really clean there look at that beautiful that look absolutely no effort at all whatsoever let's see I can files have a split off when I was testing out they're splitting more so be interested in specifically splitting wood look at that was a missed shot they went I see the things that's really nice about that is that it's split like a fro would split it along the grain that's really nice and that's dry wood that's not that's not green wood that's pretty dry that is so yeah I'm pretty impressed now all the more important things to look at when we look at active so this one cost me it cost about 68 pounds in the shop as of 2014 the price of these is going to go up I'm not sure why that is

but I've been reliably informed that they are going to go up to about 75 pounds so if you want to get one get one before the new year and one last thing that I do want to show you which I have to unfortunately take my coat off to show you is clearly on this lovely dreary December day here comes the train as usual

there's one little trick you can do the accent for carrying the facts so

this Act doesn't come with the apt book which tells you all that different splitting technique how to dry wood how to split wood etc etcetera how to care for the axe so we're always really good you can also buy the act book you can you lose yours it's only a couple of quid from the website and it comes with a variety of languages as well okay so that's how the axe head goes on so it just drops on like that and then this leather piece comes around the back and just press it in there but one thing that is including the apps book which I thought I'd show you it's really nice is how to carry this axe on your belt let's get you in shop though so so I'll do my belt there a little bit and then what I'm going to do is bring that loop around the inside of my belt my hands are really cold it's quite fiddly for my belt tight to where I want it and that loop just fastens in like so like refasten my belt like this gets a bit more comfortable and that access really comfortably on your belt there I wouldn't go wandering about the streets like this but of course when you're on camp being at having somewhere to easy access you you're actually really nice and that just sits in really nice and it's dead easy to get off as well so I just click that start pull it through take that off still it in the pocket I'm good to go with the axe and then we can probably do that without even around taking a look so on the belt we've goals sorry the axe cover like so then we put the axe against you like where you want it I think that's really stuck that's not going anywhere if I was to really pull the axe head here that's probably gonna come on dawn actually no it's not that's really impossible because the belts moving through it so there you go that's that's a really steady we're carrying this axe really nice and comfortable so I hope you found this video informative guys and as always I do I really really highly recommend ground s'mores axes they're absolutely fantastic if you're going to spend some money on a decent axe go out and get yourself one of these really really good it's a nice companion to the wildlife hatchet as well it's fantastic iron let's see just one last thing that I forgot to mention let's have a look to see this edge so that's quite a shot let's sue and get some nice feathers on there with that there you go you can see I'm just taking really thin slivers off this dry hard fusil Rowan its feather not really nicely there you go it's a bit bit cumbersome for doing this put in a tight spot that's our shot line and it takes tight spot absolutely fantastic

there you go thanks for watching guys you