you are a nerd

and you don't have a gf

oi i'm not THAT much of a stereotype

I am

o

fuck

the paint totally fucked up when it dried on this after a week

er

month

I was using it earlier this week and a large crack formed

I think I'm going to just strip it

and not re-paint it

cast steel should be fine for a finish

maybe I could blue it tho

ah, did i see someone has read the Honorverse books?

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@Schedrevka sorry it took me so long, was with family yesterday. Here is the video where he talks about axes with that much of an angle to the axe https://youtu.be/rT67k_3hkrc?t=598

(yes, i know it says fantasy but he brings up a historical example to reference a Tacticool axe)

http://norskevaapen.no/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/P10201471-1024x565.jpg

http://norskevaapen.no/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ABoks.jpg

@Grenade123 Thanks for remembering. Those are some really interesting pieces. Especially for the 17th century. I wonder if they were meant to be used more similarly to a bill. Their horn is positioned well for stabbing, but they don't seem to have a false edge, so I doubt that was too effective. Maybe they're shaped like that to better disrupt pike formations?

also better for striking targets that are lower

so perhaps it helped with aiming for legs

or maybe better for stabbing like you said

who knows, but they did it for a reason

maybe they just found it made it a more well rounded tool

didn't lose much of its combat ability but easier to chop wood.

i could see that being the case for the pistol one

still works for self defense, but also a survival tool

maybe that pistol attachment wasn't meant for combat.

hence the problem with holding it

I can't imagine it being practical as a tool. Maybe just a gimmick for some rich dude to show off to his friends, or for a smith to show off his skill

It's cool whatever the reason

if you look at the physics, the best part of the chopping force is in the dead center of the blade. The power comes from how far your arms. With that angle, your arms can travel farther while still hitting with the center of the blade.

look at things like a circle, with your arm going from the center to the edge, and the head of the axe sticking out just beyond the edge of the circle.

now lets say 0 is vertical, and 90% is perfectly horizontal

if you have a normal axe, in which the head is inline with the handle, more or less, to get the head down so that its perfectly perpendicular to the ground, which would put all the force from the swing going down into the ground, you can only go from 0 degrees to 90 degrees.

with the head titled back, you need to go past 90 degrees, to get the head perpendicular to the ground

this gives you more of an are to swing, without changing the starting position

I don't know. That really doesn't seem like it'd make much difference. You don't need your hands to be below your waist to hit max acceleration. There's a reason that wasn't the norm throughout history, but there's got to be a reason they chose to do it there.