The Knuckle Duster Axe: A Deadly Brass Knuckles/Axe Mashup Weapon

What would make brass knuckles even more dangerous? If you added an axe! And that’s exactly what Etsy store TheExoticBladesShop did with this bearded axe/brass knuckle combo weapon. According to the store, it’s “a great bridesmaids gift, gift for brother, or gift for father,” but I suspect it’s an even greater gift for getting arrested.

The entirely hand-crafted axe features a high-carbon, high-chromium steel blade, wooden handle, and integrated spiked knuckle dusters. I’d like to think this is more of a display/conversation piece than something somebody would actually buy and use, but you have to remember: Florida Man exists.

Yeah, I’d rather not have to explain what I’m doing with an axe/brass knuckles combo weapon when the cops show up. And trust me, if you own an axe/brass knuckles mashup, the cops WILL be showing up. Apparently same goes for if you own a fireworks cannon. This is my property; I can do what I want!

[via DudeIWantThat]

Tiny Axe-Throwing Game Played with Real, Miniature Axes

Because danger comes in all shapes and sizes (including miniature), this is the Small Viking Axe Game available from Firebox for $116. It’s a real axe-throwing game played with tiny, but still very sharp, axes. I can already close my eyes and see myself wrapping my bloody hand in a t-shirt and yelling for my wife.

As a huge fan of both miniature weaponry and throwing sharp objects, this game is a no-brain purchase for myself. Will my wife try to intercept the package and hide it from me? If she knows what’s best for me, most definitely.

The set includes a wooden target with string for hanging (preferably outdoors), three miniatures axes with burlap carrying sack, nine replacement shafts, one shaft replacement tool, and a rulebook. Obviously, I don’t need a rulebook and will make up the rules as I go along. Presumably, something along the lines of ‘last one to bleed, wins, but does have to drive all the losers to the hospital.’

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A Refreshing Re-design of the Trusty Axe

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Toraxe is an axe like no other! Heavily driven by the principle of fluidity of form, the handle carriers a visually striking form that couldn’t be further away from the conventional handle that it replaced; as striking as this is, it also offers safety benefits to the user too. The handguard, that gently merges into the blade- housing, protects the user’s hand whilst simultaneously keeping it in an ergonomic position.

A material change is the only element visually separating the axe’s handle from the blade; the fluid design and bold, sweeping curves are continued onto the blade, visually connecting the two components together and creating a physically interesting product. Toraxe certainly brings a refreshing re-design to the humble axe, and with added functionality and safety intertwined throughout the product, it makes for an appealing alternative!

Designer: Nikola Djuraskovic

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This Axe Razor Gives You The Manliest Shave Ever

Everyone knows that real mean shave with an axe. Ask any woodsman or lumberjack. It’s just what real men do. The Straight Razor Warrior Axe Razor lets any man shave like a serious tough guy.

It’s a razor in the form of a mini axe. In other words, it’s real axe that you use on your face. You’ll feel like a Viking when you shave. I’m not sure they really shaved with axes, but they could have. If anyone did, it was those guys.

This manly grooming tool even has a sweet hand-carved wooden handle, and its straight-edge blade is made of sharpened tempered steel. The carved beech wood handle is infused with copper or brass, along with waxed cord. That’s some nice detailing.

It will cost you $125 over on Amazon, but you deserve it. Sadly, you won’t be spilling the blood of your enemies. Only your own if you aren’t careful. The battle is with yourself.  Shave wisely my friend, or else you’ll have some battle scars on your face. When you are finished with your shave, maybe you can take it out back and chop some twigs.

[via DudeIWantThat via Mike Shouts]

Off Grid Survival Axe Review: A Practical Tool and Zombie Fighter

If you’re looking for a single tool to keep in your bugout bag, the Off Grid Survival Axe is an excellent choice. It combines a number of useful tools for both the real world and whatever post-apocalyptic world you can image, be it zombies, robots, or even killer cars.

Also known as the “Lil Trucker,” this rugged multi-tool packs 13 types of tool in one. It’s made from a single piece of hardened 1055 carbon tool steel that runs the length of the blade all the way down the tang, which is sandwiched between a pair of glass-filled nylon handles. The finger cutouts in the handle provides an excellent grip – something you want on any sort of hand tool.

First and foremost, this thing is a compact hatchet, and does a great job hacking through logs, for gathering quick and easy firewood. It didn’t take long for me to split a 4″ thick piece of wood, and it certainly could handle thicker logs with additional time and effort. It’s not razor-sharp, but it does the trick. The axe blade is also designed to be resharpened if it ever gets dull, or if you desire a sharper blade.

The head also contains a variety of box wrenches. There are 3/8″(10mm), 7/16″(11mm), 1/2″(13mm), and 9/16″(15mm) hex wrenches. The wrenches offer excellent grip, but with one caveat. Their location on the axe head does limit their utility to locations which are pretty wide open, and they won’t work well turning nuts or bolts in cramped quarters. A 1/4″ hex socket is designed to hold screwdriver bits, but I couldn’t get it to securely hold any of the ones in my toolbox – they just kind of wobbled around. They’d do well to place it in a thicker section of steel, and magnetize it next time around.

On the backside of the head are a couple of other useful tools, including a nail puller, a flat pry bar, a box-cutting edge which doubles as a can opener, a wrench for tightening hose couplings, and a claw hammer. The hammer works quite well, and has plenty of heft for quickly driving nails. Prying stubborn nails is a breeze too. That said, the hammer end started showing scratches quite quickly, which is the one downside I can see to having a black finish. It looks awesome, but isn’t always the most practical for tools. One tool I couldn’t figure out how to effectively use was the can opener. It seems like it could smash holes in the top of a can in a pinch, but it’s not a precise tool like a standalone can opener.

The handle packs several handy emergency tools, including an emergency glass-breaker and a seatbelt cutter. While I didn’t have any glass windows I wanted to break, I did test out the belt cutter on a spare length of seatbelt webbing from a backpack I have, and it sliced right through it.

There’s also a locking, flip-out sawblade in the handle, which is great for cutting branches or wood boards. The 6″ Milwaukee sawzall blade also works great on plastic, metal, and other materials, and is replaceable with a store-bought blade, should you ever wear it out.

Of course, you can’t have a multi-tool without a bottle opener. After all, you need to pop open a cold drink to celebrate all that hard work you did getting to your campsite and setting up your tent, right? This bottle opener is located in the back edge of the axe head, and works perfectly. It also doubles as a gas shut-off wrench, though again, I had no gas lines I needed to shut off, so I didn’t test this.

While you’re unlikely to encounter the undead, the Off Grid Survival Axe would surely help dispense of a zombie or three, should you find yourself in such a dangerous predicament. But even if the zombiepocalypse never arrives, you can rest easy that you’ll get lots of use out of this versatile hand tool. It’s available now over on Amazon for about $80(USD).

Fidget Stick Gets Chopped in Half with an Axe to See What’s Inside

Sorry fidgeters, I don’t get the whole fidget thing and I think it’s stupid. So I was happy to see someone take an axe to one of these fidget toys to see what’s inside. If I could, I would destroy them all so that no one could ever fidget again. I’m evil like that.

If you feel the same way or just want to see what they’re made of, check out the video below where father and son Dan and Lincoln Markham of What’s Inside along with Stephen Headrick used an axe to chop one of those wobbly fidget sticks in half.

Turns out there’s really not much in this one. Seriously people, if you must fidget, just use a pen or something. This fidget craze is dumb.

[via Laughing Squid]

Guy Makes Axe with Gummy Bear Handle

Yep, this axe has a handle filled with gummy bears. Why? Why not? It was made by Peter Brown of YouTube channel Shop Time. The dude clearly likes gummy bears.

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He first made a mold for the axe handle, then filled it full of gummy bears and resin. Then he attached the axe head. Pretty simple. Actually, it’s not. Especially the part where “gummy residue” gets stuck to the outside of the axe handle, and you have to hand-apply resin to cover it up.

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It certainly makes a pretty axe handle. Not that a man needs a pretty axe handle. If you want to try and make one yourself you can check out a step-by-step pictorial of the build here. Good luck if you are chopping wood in the forest and a bear wants to eat your large stick of gummies, Pete.

[via Popular Mechanics via Geekologie]

Kindling Cracker Splits Logs Without an Axe

Swinging an axe is the conventional way to chop firewood, but as with any sharp tool, it can be pretty dangerous. If you have firewood to chop, and don’t like the idea of swinging a sharp axe, there is another solution. You can thank a 13 year-old girl from New Zealand for coming up with the idea.

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Instead of swinging the axe blade at the wood, why not hit the wood against a blade? Makes sense. This is a much safer way to split logs. The Kindling Cracker is a solid cast iron device that will accept logs up to 6.5 inches across and features an upward facing blade.

All you have to do is insert your log and smack it with a mallet or another log. It’s safe and it couldn’t be easier. Plus this thing will last for years. It’s only $85(USD), and seems like a great way to chop wood.

[via Werd via OhGizmo!]

You don’t need to be an Axe-pert!

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Not many people are experts with hatchets. The Hound from Game of Thrones makes it look really easy to tear through timber using an axe, but I’ll be honest, I’ve got the upper body strength of a cheap mannequin. Moreover, it’s important to know how to use an axe too. After all, you don’t want to be blindly swinging such a deadly weapon! The Tomahawk Hawkaxe is designed to not just be efficient, but also promote the correct style of using the axe. Its hollow blade area makes it unbelievably light, which means you need to hold the axe near the blade to exert force, because there isn’t much momentum with an axe this light. This little hack actually gets us to operate the axe the right way!

The axe also comes with a hammer-head on the back, making it a multi-tool. The hammer adds some much needed weight to the blade area, making sure the contraption isn’t too light. The design is inspired by its namesake, the Hawk. The blade resembles the hawk’s raptorial beak, giving it a unique cut-away shape at the bottom that makes it easy for the hand to hold onto the axe right behind the blade to ensure and enhance accuracy. What a wonderfully coincidental bit of bio-mimicry, eh?? 💡

Designer: Kevin Clarridge

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