Gransfors Bruks Small Gutter Adze

Grasp its 25 hickory axe handle near the end for use with an erect stance and a heavy swing or hold it just as comfortably 4 to 6 from the end for a compact fully controlled swing with your elbows braced against your knees.

Gransfors bruks small gutter adze.

View full product details. Ideal for the quick removal of wood inside bowl blanks or shaping chair seat bottoms. Gransfors bruks premium swedish adze features a hand forged axe style head with a nicely drooped blade for easy efficient cutting. Adze weighs 1 3 4 lb.

The small gutter adze is usually kept for when the user is working close to the log making a small axe with a shorter handle preferable. The swedish company famous for their luxurious roughhewn hand tools outdoes themselves with the small form factor bowl shaped adze designed for maneuverability and control. The adze has a wide range of applications. The bottom grip of the hickory handle is roughened which gives a steady grip even when one s hands are wet or sticky.

Gransfors bruks gutter adze. It is perhaps best described as a chisel you can chop with. Its area of use is hollowing out timber. Includes a grain leather sheath.

Its area of use is hollowing out timber for example to make a trough old style gutters and notchwork in log building for which the rounded edge is ideal. The gränsfors small straight adze is an old scandinavian axe design with a transverse edge. The gränsfors small gutter adze is a kind of adze with a different cutting edge that is rounded up at the ends. The small gutter adze is usually kept for when the user is working close to the material making a shorter handle preferable.

Gransfors bruk hope to be forging this adze again early in 2020 by all means sign up for an email alert below for when they do return to stock. It can be used to square off logs and planks to create a smooth surface to shape beams and purlins and to form ribs for boats.