Best place to find ax handles in the Central Valley CA? Making one really isn't an option for me.

Couple of weeks ago i shared my Fiskars tool collection and these are Billnäs tools that eventually turned into fiskars 90 years ago. They still made axes in Billnäs brand until 1970-1980 or so.

So I used to keep the axes I used for felling and bucking razor sharp, but I noticed that the axes would often go dull very quickly and the edge was weaker than I liked. Becuase of this I now started sharpening them to the point where they are decently sharp, but not a razor edge. This seems to work better for my use and still cuts deep and pops chips rather well without being fragile.

I wanted to know how sharp you keep your felling axes and how it has worked for you

Has anyone had any luck replacing the handle of an SOG camp axe with something other than the aweful factory handle? Love packing and using the little guy but the grooves in the handle with sore a hand up in no time

I really appreciate this shape and am curious as to the name and such information bout it

I found some time to start working on a new handle. So far, I’ve done the rough shaping with these two hatchets. Such a satisfying way to go about it. We’ll see what head I end up hanging on this. It’s about 29” and I have left the eye large in case I want to hang one of my full sized heads.

The axe itself weighs 7 lbs total and glides through like butter. Theres no need to swing it hard but it does make my forearms sore