UPDATE:
I almost forgot about this one - but it's worth showing how things panned out.
Left to right, Gransfors Mini, Moore Maker Sub Zero, my Damascus pocket rocket
and a part-modified Cold Steel Trail Hawk:
Here are the three little 'uns together for scale:
A potentially interesting profile on the little sub zero axe (centre):
... which is spoiled by the head being well out of alignment:
The edge was about as blunt as an axe can be - I could have run it over my hands without any fear of injury.
I'm in two minds whether I can be arsed with this one - I can make it into something useful, but the effort is likely to outweigh any benefit. It would be easier to make a complete axe from scratch that faff around with this one.
I'll think on it for a while and either give it away to one of my mates who will enjoy fettling it, or it can go to the back of the workshop and stay put for a year or three until I get to it.
Purchases like this are often a gamble. Most times you get what you expect, and sometimes you don't. I was expecting the edge to be more or less as bad as it was but I don't think I was prepared for the badly misaligned head.
Never mind - it wasn't an earth shattering amount of money and if I get the time to look at it I can make it into something worth using. Won't be in a hurry to use it in favour the the Gransfors Mini, and I certainly won't be climbing over the Damascus pocket rocket any time soon to get to the little Moore Maker axe...
Ho hum.
Nothing ventured and all that...
