[Moo] Axe

[Janie Darby]

Milord,

I bow to your superior knowledge on this subject.

Briana


On 4/3/08, Mike C. Baker <kihebard at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  QUIBBLE:  *anything* can be a thrown weapon -- the SCA just tends to have
> standardized on knife, axe, and spear/javelin.  (I have taught /
> demonstrated the use of the thrown stick from time to time since AS XIV or
> thereabouts ... and will note the rather effective implementation of thrown
> maces/hammers at this year's Gulf Wars, according to my informants.)
>
> A "proper" adze can have a handle proportionate to the size and weight of
> head, just like any axe, and there is wide variation in width and shape of
> the sharpened blade as well.  Broadaxe or broadadze had their place in the
> toolchest just as much as their narrower cousins, and adze with "shaped"
> blades were used to produce special shapes.  The "hammer"-backing of the
> head was often used as the impact point for driving an adze through material
> -- useful make-your-own shingles or shaping a post/timber already in-place..
>
> When the rabble were roused and the peasantry / crafts-folk called into
> formal combattant service, carpenters and such would usually be expected to
> bring their tools of the trade with them.  A pound or two of good sharpened
> metal at the end of a couple of feet of haft that is already fairly
> well-balanced makes for a pretty devastating piece of throwable destruction.
>
>  Adieu, Amra / ttfn - Mike / Pax ... Kihe
> (writing to you from the Barony of the Steppes, Ansteorra)
>
> Mike C. Baker
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> *From:* moo-bounces at stierbach.org [mailto:moo-bounces at stierbach.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Janie Darby
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:10 AM
> *To:* General Mailing List for the Barony of Stierbach
> *Subject:* Re: [Moo] Axe
>
>
>  I like either that or "adze". However, an adze doesn't look like an axe.
> It's blade is set at a right angle to the haft. Think hoe with a sharp blade
> and a shorter handle. It is used for shaping wood - not a thrown weapon.
>
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