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Gransfors Bruks Axes

Gransfors Bruks from Sweden are famous for their axes and edge tools. They have been hand forging tools for over 100 years and have a deserved reputation for their quality and product range. Each axe has the individual blacksmith's initials stamped next to the Gransfors Bruks logo (LE - Lars Enander: UN - Ulrik Nielsen: MM - Matthias Mattsson: MS - Mikael Sundberg: LP - Lennart Pettersson: KS - Kjell-AkeSjolund: RA - Rune Andersson).

The Axe Book

This is "The Axe Book" that accompanies every Gransfors Bruks axe. It is a great little read that gives an insight into the history, workings and philosophy of the factory - 36 pages. After forging, each blade is ground to and honed to a razor edge before being fitted with a hickory handle and protective leather sheath. Gransfors Bruks believe in the quality of their tools so much that they offer a 20 year guarantee.

NEW Gransfors Hand Hatchet 413 Ref: GA-HH413

This new Hand Hatchet uses the head of the 415 Wildlife Hatchet but with a much shorter handle. It can be used for relatively arduous tasks. Perfect for carrying as the hickory handle is only 10" long. Supplied with its leather sheaf and The Axe Book.

Weight 700g

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Price: £49.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Small Hatchet 410 Ref: GA-SH410

The baby of them all weighing just 11 ounces and with a 2-1/2” face and 11" hickory handle. Ideal for splitting kindling. Leather sheath included.

Code - GA-SH410

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Price: £66.90 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Wildlife Hatchet 415 Ref: GA-WB

small, light axe which can be easily carried, protected by its leather sheath, inside your back-pack or on your belt. With this small axe you can branches in the garden or chop and split sticks for a camp fire. This little hatchet may awake memories and dreams of exciting camps and adventures. The hatchet has a 3" face and a 14" hickory handle and the head weighs 1 lb. It comes with a protective leather sheath.

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Hunter’s Axe 418 Ref: GA-HA418

Specially made for hunters. The Poll is forged thinner than normal and gently rounded and burnished to a Flay Poll to be used when skinning an animal. It is also good for chopping wood as well as meat and bones. The grip of the handle has circular grooves which gives a steady grip even if your hands are wet or sticky. This axe has received, as the first and only axe in Sweden, a design award from The Swedish Society of Crafts and Design. The axe has a 3 1/4" face and a 19" hickory handle and the head weighs 1 1/2 lb. Supplied with a protective leather sheath.

Code - GA-HA418

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Price: £74.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Small Forest Axe 420 Ref: GA-FBK420

Same size as the Hunters Axe but a more traditional pattern and poll. The blade is thin. The handle is long enough to allow powerful chopping but not too long so it will fit into a rucksack, the back of a car or a boat. Practical for splitting small sticks for the fire or cutting small-diameter limbwood for starter fuel in a fireplace. The axe has a 3 1/4" face and a 19" hickory handle and the head weighs 1 1/2 lb. It comes with a protective leather sheath.

Code - GA-FBK420

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Price: £54.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Scandinavian Forest Axe 430 Ref: GA-FBG430

A profesional axe for those who want to limb a felled tree in a traditional way. Forged to a thin, curved "bit" and sharpened to make it suitable for cutting branches in fresh, resinous wood, spruce or pine. The long handle gives extra strength and power to the cut. The axe has a 31/2" face and a 25" hickory handle and the head weighs 2 lb. It comes with a protective leather sheath.

Code - GA-FBG430

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Price: £59.50 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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American Felling Axe 31inch 434-1 Ref: GA-AFA434-1

81cm handle, weight 2.2kg

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Price: £85.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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American Felling Axe 35inch 434-2 Ref: GA-AFA434-2

90cm handle, weight 2.3kg

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Price: £88.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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American Felling Axe - Straight Handle 434-3 Ref: GA-AFA434-3

81cm straight handle, weight 2.1kg

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Price: £83.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Splitting Hatchet 439 Ref: GA-SH439

The splitting Hatchets blade starts off concave and fairly thin, allowing easy penetration into the wood, where upon the thickening axe head exerts enormous splitting pressure. The small splitting axe, with 2-1/2 lb. head, 2-1/2” face & 16” textured hickory handle, is ideal for splitting kindling & smallish stove wood. It is designed for one-handed use. Note this axe’s poll is not hardened for use as a sledge. The axe is provided with a grain-leather sheath with snap fastener.

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Price: £62.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Small Splitting Axe 441 Ref: GA-SPAK441

Can be managed with one hand. Forged and ground to a concave, quite thin blade at the "bit". This design helps the axe to enter the wood rapidly and to efficiently split it when the thicker part follows to push the wood apart. The poll of this axe, like the poll on most axes, is not designed for pounding on a wedge. The head weighs 2 lb. The face is 2 1/2”. The 20” hickory handle has circular grooves at the grip and steel collar near the head. It comes with a protective leather sheath.

Code - GA-SPAK441

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Price: £64.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Large Splitting Axe 442 Ref: GA-SPAG442

Designed for splitting chunks of wood, "rounds". The axe head is quite heavy with forged cheeks on both sides of the blade, "splitting wedge shaped crests" which power apart the grain of the wood. A Splitting Axe does not just have to slice into the wood –the thick axe blade pushes the wood apart.

The poll of this axe, like the poll on most axes, is definitely not designed for heavy pounding on a wedge.

The axe has a 3" face and a 27" hickory handle and the head weighs 3 1/2 lb.

Code - GA-SPAG442

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Price: £69.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Splitting Maul 450 Ref: GA-SPAH450

Also names Hammer-poll Axe. Designed for splitting apart large chunks of wood or "rounds". The Maul’s head is heavier and the cheek flare far wider behind the cutting edge compared with the Splitting Axes. The poll is designed for pounding on a splitting wedge.

The axe has a 2 1/2" face and a 31" hickory handle and the head weighs 5 1/2 lb.

Danger: Always wear adequate clothing and protection for your face and eyes.

Code - GA-SPAH450

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Price: £75.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Splitting Wedge 460 Ref: GA-KEIL460

Forged steel wedge. Twisted for maximum splitting. The poll has ground edges.

The wedge has a 1 3/4" face, weighs 4 lb.

Danger: Always wear adequate clothing and protection for your face and eyes.

Code - GA-KEIL460

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Price: £38.82 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Carpenter’s Axe 465 Ref: GA-TA465

These axes have a straight edge and thin blade with low angle of the bevel face, suited for work in dry wood. The forged inward curve from the heel to the lip of the head allows your hand to grip almost straight above the centre of the edge. This, and the long straight cutting edge, gives rigidity, stability, and control when cutting. Functions like a good heavy knife. The axe poll is ground and can be used as a hammer.

The head weighs 11/2 lb and has a 3 1/2" face. The axe has an 18" hickory handle and a protective leather sheath.

Code - GA-TA465

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Price: £56.19 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Swedish Carving Axe 475 Ref: GA-SBK475

A chop axe for hewing bowls and other wooden objects, artistic wood carving and architectural work. The characteristic curved shape of the cutting edge, carried well above the head’s eye, the position of the edge in proportion to the handle, the rather thick bit and the big angle of the wide beveled face makes the axe a good carving tool. You "cut on the beveled face" with curved movements. This new axe pattern, based on old Swedish carving techniques, is developed by Wille Sundqvist, master craftsman and author of Swedish Carving Techniques in cooperation with craftsman adviser Onni Linnanheimo. The handle is "rugged" to give a good grip.

The axe has a 4 1/3" face and a 14" hickory handle and the head weighs 2 lb. Supplied with protective leather sheath.

Call us about the left handed option.

Code - GA-SBK475

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Price: £77.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Swedish Broad Axe 480 Ref: GA-ZBA480

The pattern of the Broad Axe and the handle is based on old Swedish logging techniques for squaring logs and structural timbers of all kinds. Has sufficient space between the "blade’s beard" and the handle for the user’s fingers. Beveled on two sides (double beveled) or on one side, left or right. The eye (and the direction of the handle) may be straight or sideways angled, right or left, to protect the knuckles. One side beveled, left side, normally goes with an eye angled sideways to the right. If you want deeper visible cuts when squaring logs, you may even have a broad axe, double beveled, with the blade bent and the eye angled sideways to the right or to the left.

The broad axe has a 7" face and a 20" hickory handle and the head weighs 3 lb. Supplied with protective leather sheath.

Code - GA-ZBA480

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Price: £119.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Swedish Broad Axe 481 Ref: GA-SBA481

You’re probably most familiar with traditional Right-Hand and Left-Hand Axes, which are used on their respective sides of the log. These axes’ heads are both bent and twisted at the forge, and they are bevelled like a chisel on one side only. This lets the axe’s eye and handle stand clear of the timber while the user employs a straight, easy swing to let the flat face of the axe shave the surface like a huge plane. The axe heads weigh 3 lbs., and are 7” wide. 20” textured hickory handles allow short, controlled swings for accurate work. The axe is fitted with a tight-grained hickory handle and provided with a grain-leather sheath with snap fastener.

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Price: £139.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Broad Axe 1800 483 Ref: GA-BA483

Similar to the No. 1700 below but without the forged socket. Universal Broad Axes have symmetrical, double-bevelled blades and straight handles. They are mainly used in conjunction with mortising axes for making wood joints.

Double bevel, head weight approx. 1600 g, face width 190 mm, overall length 500 mm.

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Price: £215.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Broad Axe 1700 484 Ref: GA-BA484

An early form of the Scandinavian double-bearded broad axe, with a solid forged socket typical of those made from the Middle Ages until the 18th century. The head is symmetrical and fitted onto a straight handle. The strongly curved cutting edge and wide bevel make this axe ideally suited for joint work and for squaring logs and beams. The concentration of weight near the cutting edge improves directional stability during use. This stunning axe is hand-forged by Master Blacksmith Lars Enander, one head at a time.

Double bevel, head weight approx. 1500 g, face width 190 mm, overall length 500 mm.

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Price: £304.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Mortise Axe/Loghouse Corner Axe 485 Ref: GA-MA485

This is a mortise axe used for cutting out log corners. It has a 2 ¼” edge length with a 20” hickory handle. The weight including the handle is 2lb. 7oz. The axe is fitted with a tight-grained hickory handle and provided with a grain-leather sheath with snap fastener.

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Price: £75.00 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Double-Bit Throwing Axe 490 Ref: GA-WB490

Typically, one blade was sharpened to a finely honed, narrow “felling edge”, while the second blade was ground slightly blunter, and used for knots and cutting near the ground where a finely sharpened blade was more likely to be damaged. Today the double-bit axe is used as a Working Axe or as a Throwing Axe for timber sports.

The head weighs 3 lb and the face of the bits are about 6”. The Throwing Axe has a 29” straight hickory handle and the Working Axe has a 35” straight hickory handle with swell-knob. Supplied with protective leather sheaths.

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Double-Bit Throwing Axe 490

Double-Bit Throwing Axe 490:Throwing/Working Axe 29" Handle GA-WB490T £102.17
Double-Bit Throwing Axe 490:Throwing/Working Axe 35" Handle GA-WB490W £108.30

Axe Throwing Rules

Axe Throwing

The straight distance from the "Throwing Line" to the bull's eye on the target should be 20' (6.1 m). The thrower may not overstep or cross the "Throwing Line" before the axe has hit or missed the target. Should be checked by a linesman. The "Fore-Bit" is the bit in the target direction in the moment when the thrower lets the double-bitted axe go. Only the "Fore-Bit" of the double-bitted axe can score a hit on the target area & SHY; a condition is however that the bit sticks in the target.The "Fore-Bit" only needs to cut the outer edge of a line of the scoring area to win points of that higher scoring area. The "Back-Bit" is not allowed to brush against the target &SHY; if so the scoring will be 0 even if the "Fore-Bit" has hit the target at same time. Best score in minimum of three throws wins. At competitions, targets for practice should be provided. Practicing throws at targets planned for competition means automatic disqualification. The standards for a Double-Bitted Competition Axe and the design for a Competition Target are shown below.

1: 20' (6,1 m)
2: 60'' (1,5 m)
3a | 3b: "Fore-Bit" sticks in target

Axe Throwing Dimensions

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