Note: These unique handles weren't available in the last few years. However, Gränsfors is making progress towards their reintroduction. This means the full carving axe range with carved beech handles may soon be back in stock. We're hopeful and keeping our fingers crossed!
The Gränsfors Bruk Large Carving Hatchet is a lighter weight axe that will find many uses in green woodworking, particularly spoon carving. It has the same head as the Gränsfors Bruk Wildlife Hatchet and Hand Hatchet but with the addition of an exquisite hand carved handle in Swedish red beech. The carved handle improves balance, grip and control and therefore its usefulness as an axe for craft work.
Available in three different grinds (please select from the drop-down box above):
- Double-sided Ground with equal bevels, suitable for right and left handed users. Equal bevels makes this the most generally useful axe. Especially when removing wood from slightly concave features, such as spoon blanks. Will more willingly go where you want it to go compared to Right or Left Ground Axes. For most people, equal bevels, a relatively thin bit and lighter weight will make this a good axe for smaller projects. And for people who find the Gränsfors Bruk Large Carving Axe too heavy.
- Right Ground is a handed axe suitable only for right-handed users. Asymmetric bevels, short on the right, long on the left. Right Ground axes work in a slightly different way, they cut at a lower angle, 'biting' readily and work on straight or convex surfaces. They don't come well out of concave shapes. Preparing smaller billets ready for the pole lathe and shaping the outside of smaller bowl blanks is work the Large Carving Hatchet, right grind will excel at.
- Left Ground suitable only for left-handed users, this axe functions as the mirror counterpart of the Right Ground.
Product specifications:- Length: 37 cm (14.5")
- Weight: 0.6kg (1.3lb)
- Head: 75mm (3") long cutting edge ground to 20 degrees
- Handle: Hand-carved handle made from Swedish red beech, comes without the Gränsfors Bruk logo. Features a distinctly carved swell knob which helps balance the axe perfectly
- Extras: comes as standard with a vegetable tanned leather sheath, the Gränsfors Bruk Axe Book and a 20 year guarantee against faults in forging on the head
About Gränsfors Bruk:
For more than 100 years, Gränsfors Bruk AB has built a business upon handcrafted axes and axe expertise, with a focus on quality and environmental responsibility. When it comes to the quality and feel of the axes, this is reflected in the experience and skill of the individual craftsman. Each axe is signed with the smith’s initials as a guarantee of quality.
The company is located in the Swedish village of Gränsfors in northern Hälsingland. The forge sits at the heart of the village and you can hear the rhythmic pounding as you approach, a sound we always take pleasure from when we visit!
We are lucky to be one of the few retailers of Gränsfors Bruk axes in the UK, which has been based on a long standing relationship between our small family business and their forge. We like to think that our close ties to the forge and the alignment in ethos between our two companies make us a knowledgeable, premium purveyor of their world class tools. If you have any questions at all in any product in the Gränsfors range - please reach out to our friendly team and we'll be more than happy to help.
