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An elderly family friend sold their summer cottage and let me raid his workshop there - here's the haul
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Some of it will come in handy, and some I just wanted because of the traditional, respectable brands. For example, I think those two Billnäs pipe wrenches were hand-forged. A lot of it was well-used and rusty, but very few of them said “Made in China” either.
Interesting angles on those hatchets, any brand name on them?
It’s a traditional Finnish axe design - the brands are Fiskars and Kellokoski. Kellokoski, along with Billnäs, was later bought by Fiskars.
I’ve got a handful of these axes. While they’re not exactly rare, ones that don’t need a new handle are somewhat hard to come by - especially outside of Finland. They’re no longer being made, and an axe head like this can easily be 70 years old, if not older. There are bushcraft and camping purists out there who’d pay good money for an axe like this.