Well we seem to have gotten back to the subject of broad axe handles.
Reversible broadaxe handles are pretty neat, in fact I have made a few of them myself from an antique specimen that I happened to come by in a collection of tools.
They are not easy to make but real handy especially if say the broadaxe was handled down from generation to generation and the new person's hand orientation changed say from right to left.
Another senario would be that the axe would find its way to a new home and the new owner's hand orientation was opposite of the original owner.