The bottom one looks like what I am talking about. The top looks to long in the head, with too short a handle. A similar tool, but slightly different. But again, the bottom looks like examples I have seen of the Bandhacke. Something like that with a very long (80 cm) handle.
The top one to me looks like a particularly old example of a tool known as a Stichaxt. This tool is used to shape and clean mortises and joint faces and for similar tasks. Modern examples of this tool have no wooden handle on them, and are used more or less like a chisel.
Last edited by D L Bahler; 06/26/11 01:06 PM.
