Nomadicalpirate Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 He be damned right! Cutlass be for, well, the bloody Lasses! Nothing says stinking, cheating, rotten, no good PIRATE! like a good axe! Ye smack that down in front of ye enemies nose and they knows you means business! Eh Aye. They also open canned food in a spectacular fashion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentleman of Fortune Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 The problem is just finding a repro boarding axe for sale. If anyone has a good link to one (a GAoP era boarding axe that is) I would appreciate you posting it. The only one I could find that looked decent was THIS ONE: But I am not sure that this company is still trading... I have tried calling them a few times (they have the pedersoli Queen Anne kit for $200) but I can't get them to answer the phone or answer an e-mail... which is not a good sign. GoF Come aboard my pirate re-enacting site http://www.gentlemenoffortune.com/ Where you will find lots of information on building your authentic Pirate Impression! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain_MacNamara Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 If ye get the right axe, it will also cleave a heavy brass tankard in two as if it were butter... Captain of the Iron Lotus It is the angle that holds the rope, not the size of the hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Would a period tomahawk or hatchet also be appropriate? I have seen different ones at different sites. - 10 Fathoms Deep on the Road to Hell... Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gentleman of Fortune Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Deadeye (and anyone else) I question that too. I know they were supposed to have had "boarding axes", but I think that during this period, there were no "standard" axes. There is some information On Boarding Axes HERE The ones we often see for sale are the later Brittish type, and the ones for our period seem to be more like a spiked tomahawk But if that is the case, what the heck is Anne Bonny Carrying? GoF Come aboard my pirate re-enacting site http://www.gentlemenoffortune.com/ Where you will find lots of information on building your authentic Pirate Impression! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 I have also heard references (I will see if I can find some) to axes/tomahawks with a sledge hammer opposite the blade rather than a spike. This seems logical to me as certain shipboard duties would probably require somthing of this nature. And it looks to me that Ms Bonny is carrying some dirivitive of a Norse Bearded Axe. - 10 Fathoms Deep on the Road to Hell... Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy3 Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Diego has a grand one - and i understand they are hand made in the US. I guess he thinks I am too young to play with sharp objects still! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Santana de la Vega Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 http://www.hbforge.com/products/tomahawks.php Made in the same forge the same family started three generations ago! Reproduction no. its the spiked axe Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a knife in your back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Where did he appropriate it, Rummy? I'm always in the Market for a good noggin splicer.... - 10 Fathoms Deep on the Road to Hell... Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 http://www.hbforge.com/products/tomahawks.phpMade in the same forge the same family started three generations ago! Reproduction no. its the spiked axe That looks pretty nice. My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Good Looking weapons, Diego. I also found this site, claim 3 different types (American, French, and British) that were made for Master and Commander. Sword and Stone - 10 Fathoms Deep on the Road to Hell... Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Sorry all. IF you click on the link i just posted, look under the Miscellaneous section for the axes - 10 Fathoms Deep on the Road to Hell... Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 I also Found this link with what looks like some actual Historical pieces... Boarding Axes - 10 Fathoms Deep on the Road to Hell... Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sjöröveren Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 I bought one of these from Jas. Townsend a few months ago. It's just the head - I made a handle from an old axe handle - but it looks the same as the one it the first posting in this thread. I've popped it into a few trees in the yard, and some load- bearing beams in the basement, and it I'm pretty sure it would be fatal with the first blow! the Fool's Gold Pirates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nomadicalpirate Posted October 13, 2005 Author Share Posted October 13, 2005 Ayeah? There be no denying it, I approve of axes wholeheartedly. But I been bloody framed I have! I dinnae make this thread? wassa going on here? There be wickedness afoot, Where be that site administrator? I'll have his legs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadMike Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 There are some axes shown on the La Salle Shipwreck site- http://www.thc.state.tx.us/belle/lasbellea...eartifacts.html Anyone know what type axes were recovered from the Whydah? Here's something from the Phips Expedition website (sorry, no picture)- Belt Axes One weapon that remains synonymous with warfare in North America is the belt axe, sometimes referred to as the camp axe or, popularly, the tomahawk. Axes were more suited to campaigning in the wilderness than swords and bayonets, as the former could be employed in a number of useful day-to-day functions in addition to combat. Three belt axe handles and an additional two fragments were recovered at the site. Although heads of these weapons are periodically recovered archaeologically, handles seldom survive. Two handles contain drilled holes at the base to accommodate a leather strap, one of which was recovered in situ. Two also possessed grooves for hands, which were either the result of wear or had been deliberately worked into the handles. An incised, cross-hatched decoration accompanied by the owner's initials appears on one example. Yours, &c. Mike Try these for starters- "A General History of the Pyrates" edited by Manuel Schonhorn, "Captured by Pirates" by John Richard Stephens, and "The Buccaneers of America" by Alexander Exquemelin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 But I been bloody framed I have! I dinnae make this thread? wassa going on here? It's called "an attempt at being a moderator." The original subject was Cutlasses. It started meandering into axes. I created a new subject. There be wickedness afoot, Where be that site administrator? I'll have his legs! Eh... if you mean me, you'll have to wait in line. (At least the constant threat of violence keeps me on my toes.) :) My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshuaRed Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I bought a nice boarding axe from G. Gedney Godwin ( a Valley Forge sutler) that looks very similar to the pic GOF posted higher up in this thread. It's also fairly close to a circa 1713 Spanish boarding axe, so all things considered I'd say it passes for accurate. Here 'tis: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Santana de la Vega Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I bought one of these from Jas. Townsend a few months ago. It's just the head - I made a handle from an old axe handle - but it looks the same as the one it the first posting in this thread. I've popped it into a few trees in the yard, and some load- bearing beams in the basement, and it I'm pretty sure it would be fatal with the first blow! I likes it well I does! I will be looking into that as one fer me and give Rummy me old used and abused one......(maybe, it's pretty sharp) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a knife in your back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy3 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Just what I always wanted - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACK JACK SHALAQ Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Ayeah? There be no denying it, I approve of axes wholeheartedly. But I been bloody framed I have! I dinnae make this thread? wassa going on here? There be wickedness afoot, Where be that site administrator? I'll have his legs! :angry: Hellfire n' Gull gizzards! Nomad sound likes my kinda heathen! Mean, ornry, n' nasty! Ol' Black Jack kin sign on ta a retched klan like dat! Axes, pikes n' spikes! AAARRRRRRRRRG! Whar do I make my mark? Black Jack YER ANKLES WILL LOOK LOVELY BEHIND YER EARS LASSIE! HAR! HAR! HAR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadeye Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 bought a nice boarding axe from G. Gedney Godwin ( a Valley Forge sutler) that looks very similar to the pic GOF posted higher up in this thread. It's also fairly close to a circa 1713 Spanish boarding axe, so all things considered I'd say it passes for accurate. I like it, Josh. and I would call it Accurate since it looks almost identical to this one. I like the ones that people call the "american Boarding Axe that has these teeth on the underside, though i am ignorant as to their purpose. - 10 Fathoms Deep on the Road to Hell... Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Midnight Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I agree with ye, Deadeye, I likes the American boarding axe as well, although I too, have no clue what the purpose of the "teeth" is, nor even if the axe is historically accurate. But it is a nice weapon, indeed. I'd buy it if I knew for sure that it was historically accurate... :angry: "Now then, me bullies! Would you rather do the gallows dance, and hang in chains 'til the crows pluck your eyes from your rotten skulls? Or would you feel the roll of a stout ship beneath your feet again?" ---Captain William Kidd--- (1945) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshuaRed Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 And anudder thing! Let me tell ya, swingin' that axe could do a LOT o' damage...perhaps more than a cutlass. Holdin' it is easy to see why these were so popular.... My next plan is to do some personalizing of it by carving into the handle. Nothin fancy, just some initials, maybe some simple symbols.... *Hic* too much rum tonight.... :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackjohn Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I agree with ye, Deadeye, I likes the American boarding axe as well, although I too, have no clue what the purpose of the "teeth" is, nor even if the axe is historically accurate. But it is a nice weapon, indeed. I'd buy it if I knew for sure that it was historically accurate... :angry: From what I remember of Boarders Away, it is accurate, but only for a later period. The teeth are helpful when you use the axe as a tool to yank on downed rigging. Interestingly, in unofficial documents written during the Golden Age, the Brits called boarding axes tomahawks, again, according to Boarders Away. My Home on the Web The Pirate Brethren Gallery Dreams are the glue that holds reality together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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