Council Tool Hudson Bay Camp Axe

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance off there's in the Pathfinder school I'd like to you today is I'd like to do a little short review on the council tool Hudson Bay cap hatchet and this is a two-pound head with a 17 inch hickory handle and the retail price of this is about $60 with the leather mask so it's a reasonably priced accidents american-made axe and I do a few product reviews from time to time and sometimes I do product reviews where I buy the product because I want to look at it in terms of getting the product in my hand without necessarily manufacturer even knowing that I have it and I want to test it out in trial and work with it and then decide whether it's something I want to carry on my site or not and we already carry the council tool wood craft series axe on our website and I'm very pleased with that axe and I do lots of product testing for lots of different axe companies lots of different knife companies I do a lot of work with certain axe companies and certain knife companies but they're ones that I trust I don't just go and work with any knife company that comes along or any axe company that comes along it has to be a reputable company to begin with for me to even be interested in working with them in testing and marketing and doing reviews and things like that so back to the council tool thing I thought you know what there are some less expensive council tool axes out there than their premium series I wonder how good those axes are out of the box or what they're you know selling point would be if we were to bring them into our store and how well they might sell versus what you might have to do that axe when you receive it because understand that the non premium series acts like this hatchet that retails for $60 with the mask is not going to come razor blade shaving sharp out of the box and perfectly finished it's a hardware store type axe and they can't have razor-sharp axes on the shelf of a hardware store with every kid fondling the accent walks through the store so I expected when I got this axe for it not to be perfect as far as the grind not to be exactly what I wanted as far as the sharpness of the axe and I knew I was going to have to put a few minutes of work into it maybe a half an hour to get what I wanted out of it so when I got the axe I pulled it out of the box and I looked at it and I thought you know what alright I'm going to say the locker off the handle and I'm going to put some blow on here some boiled linseed oil and then I'm going to reshape this head as far as the blade grind profile goes and I'm going to clean it up a little bit and make it a little bit nicer and cleaner for what I wanted and then I'm going to start using this axe and I've been very very impressed with this axe because the half an hour of work that I put into it and I'll show it to you up close and tell you what I did to it but the half an hour of work that I put into this axe to make it more of a premium style axe is going to give me a lifetime axe that I can use in camp and I really like we're beginning to like even more this to pound a little bit heavier head on a little bit shorter handle because it's easier to put into a pack or put on the back of my bushcraft pack without the handle hanging way out it's got plenty of weight for bustin larger wood and I did a segment to beginning this video with a piece of like five-inch tulip poplar in Log form that I had bucked down and then busted up with this axe so there's plenty of weight behind this thing and you can get plenty of leverage with two hands on the 17 inch handle to bust some pretty large log now obviously you'd want something larger than this if you're going to cut down trees of any kind of diameter at all but that's when you get into a larger or full-sized axe with the 28 inch handle as far as a pack hats at our camp hatchet goes this things the berries and I really like council tool sheathing because they're leather sheets made in America by weaver leather company this one has the belt loop on it so you can put it on a belt if you want to it's a nice heavy-duty finally finished sheath it's got a nice heavy-duty snap on it I really like this sheath and I haven't been able to tear it up too bad thrown around not really paying much attention to it it hasn't gotten tore up and I'm to tell you the truth I'm overly pleased with the sacks at $60 so let's talk real quick we'll get up close on here and I'll show you what I did to this axe as far as the blade goes when I received it okay so let me try to stay out of shadow here okay you can see that the top of the sacks has been finished it was rough finished when I got it and painted over solid black I have taken and grounded all the way down to where there's no paint left on it and it exposes the eye and I did that really because I wanted to see what that I looked like in that axe and how it was wedged in place things like that and all of that was covered with paint so I took all of that off I polished the pole which was roughly finished so I polished that pole off to a nice square edge for pounding steaks because my main idea what this was not only a camp hatchet but also a trapline axe as well and then I took and re profiled this blade gave it a little bit narrower profile up here on the cheek so I could put a nice even bevel on here and get a good razor sharp edge on it now you know this thing is definitely razor sharp beyond the shadow of a doubt and then I just sanded down the handle with some sandpaper and put a couple coats of blow on here boy linseed oil other than that all I did was put my initials in the bottom of the handle here so I know who the axe belong to but again for 60 bucks and the half an hour of work I had to put into this thing to make it my own or profile exactly the way I wanted my axe to be and coming with a leather mask that's capable of being put on a belt as well I think it's money well spent that's just my personal opinion and I spent the money for the sax and I think it's money more than well spent because I'm going to carry the sax for a long time to come okay folks 1 Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school here on New Year's Day 2017 I appreciate you joining me for this quick review on the Hudson Bay 17-inch two-pound camp hatchet and I bought this axe again with a couple different agendas in mind one is do I want to carry this ax on my website and offer to my customers - does it take a lot of work to turn a hardware store ax into a premium type ax that I'm proud to carry and that I'm proud to pass on to the generations beyond me and then three is this going to work well for a camping and trapline style ax and I've pretty convinced that all three of those get the check box so with that said I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for school for family for business for all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys