Gransfors Bruks Small Gutter Adze

The adze has a wide range of applications.

Gransfors bruks small gutter adze.

The swedish company famous for their luxurious roughhewn hand tools outdoes themselves with the small form factor bowl shaped adze designed for maneuverability and control. It can be used to square off logs and planks to create a smooth surface to shape beams and purlins and to form ribs for boats. The gränsfors small straight adze is an old scandinavian axe design with a transverse edge. The gränsfors small gutter adze is a kind of adze with a different cutting edge that is rounded up at the ends.

Ideal for the quick removal of wood inside bowl blanks or shaping chair seat bottoms. Grasp its 25 hickory axe handle near the end for use with an erect stance and a heavy swing or hold it just as comfortably 4 to 6 from the end for a compact fully controlled swing with your elbows braced against your knees. It is perhaps best described as a chisel you can chop with. Adze weighs 1 3 4 lb.

The gränsfors small gutter adze is a kind of adze with a different cutting edge that is rounded up at the ends. Gransfors bruks gutter adze. Small handled doubly curved adze with a large sweep. The small gutter adze is usually kept for when the user is working close to the material making a shorter handle preferable.

Gransfors bruks premium swedish adze features a hand forged axe style head with a nicely drooped blade for easy efficient cutting. Its area of use is hollowing out timber. Its hefty design features a hand forged oiled hickory handle grain leather sheath and fully honed edge with the smith s initials. Includes a grain leather sheath.

The bottom grip of the hickory handle is roughened which gives a steady grip even when one s hands are wet or sticky. View full product details.