Timber Framers Guild Forums Tools Tool Forum Goosewing vs. American Broad axe

Hello all!
New to Timberframing, doing lots of "research" watching videos on youtube, noticed some people use the american broad axe and a felling axe and nothing else, and some (mostly germans) use a felling and or broad axe and follow with a goosewing giving a very smooth almost plane fine finish to timbers.
My question is what is better? Goosewing, or broad axe? Does it matter only if you want a super fine finish? Do you need all three (goosewing, broad and felling) or can you only use a felling and goosewing?
Thanks for any ideas and advice!

Hi Moving:

My understanding is that juggling was usually done with a felling axe and hewing with a broad axe. Broad axes can be either single bevel or double bevel each of which give you a different surface texture, the double bevel gives a scalloped surface often confused for adz marks. I think a goosewing is simply a larger broad axe.

I have seen historic photos of a large crew hewing very large logs with felling axes and then one man came along and cleaned up with a broad axe. If you have not searched this forum, their are several detailed discussions about axes and hewing.

Good luck;
Jim

So basically the broad axe for cleanup can be a regular american style or a goosewing, no difference between the two?