Hi,

Its interesting that the Tee axe was made by Gransfors and that they based their version on an early 11th century Danish shipbuilding axe. That means that this shape of axe was in use in England / France / Denmark at the same time and thus it is very likely that this was a long established and widely used pattern. Can someone with experience using this axe give us their impressions please.

Don I agree with Tim that the scoring axe was far too short for you. The log is very big and really way beyond the optimal size for hewing and especially the resultant log face was very deep. To reduce wastage it would have been much better to square a log like this using hewing and then halve it by sawing. History is revealing that timbers employed in early buildings were generally small and fit for purpose (just) and thus the amount of wood being removed was fairly minimal.

Regards

Ken Hume