CRKT Freyr Axe: Outdoor Axe with Deep Beard Design, Forged Carbon Steel Blade, and Hickory Wooden Handle 2746

What do I use this axe for? Currently I’m clearing 7 acres of thick trees. I have my stihl but next to that, this is my second most used tool. I’m very impressed and it looks great! The sheath is very well made and such a perfect fit. It’s comfortable to wear on my belt all day and doesn’t hinder natural movement. The handle is super comfortable and forgiving. The head is super tough and easy to maintain with a basic sharpener or strop. 1055 is perfect for axes cause it’s super easy to strop back into place instead of chipping with say 1095. I see some say it’s not razor sharp, but it’s not a knife or razor. It’s not suppose to be or it be razor sharp. I use this on hard wood all day with zero issues. Head stays tight and is very solidly wedged in. Overall highly recommended!

This is a great chop, hack, and wack axe! The axe head is sharp and robust. The handle is ergonomic and nicely balanced. This is used for chopping branches and looks good enough to be a Viking convincer. To note, my wife liked mine so much that I had to buy another one for myself. :)

Quality of the Axe is superb comes with the cutting edge covered to prevent damage in shipping and the cutting edge is very sharp. very well made!

I just received my axe yesterday and today i put it to use. i did not feel that the edge was sharp enough so i did spend some time sharpening it up for my needs. that wasnt that big a deal because i did expect that. However after only an Hour of use the head has become so loose going up and down that it has now wallowed out the handle and created a wood shelf where its pressed down on the handle.im not sure if this is a quality control issue or not, its a beautiful hatchet, i love the axe head design, but now im stuck with trying to figure out if i can save the handle or if i have to replace it and properly fit it to a new handle.after looking at the CRKT website, i have to legitimately wonder if this is an illegal counterfeit of their product and not a true CRKT original...if you want something thats pretty, this will work, i dont know that i would recommend it for regular use though.Update edit: ive had this axe a bit over a month now and i have thrown it many..many more times. The first time i threw it, the axe had just arrived to me from wherever it had been manufactured and i live in a dry arid climate. I believe the wood had shrunk due to this during shipping which attributed to the axe head shifting down the handle when thrown.since my first throw and the head shifting down, i have cleaned up where it pressed into and shaved off the burrs. i then filled the cavity left by the head shifting down the handle with a clear epoxy which seems to help stabilize the head considerably. it did break some of the epoxy off but largely stays in place.i sharpen the axe after each week of league throwing and after sharpening it i also clean it with blisteringly hot water to scrub off the paint scrubs from the targets that i am hitting so that it again looks just black instead of black blue and red. in that process the wood also absorbs some of that hot water and secures the head in place. i have no concerns about the head shifting down the handle or even flying off the handle when being thrown.ive increased the stars to 4 because it really does nicely and gets a lot of curiosity from the other league throwers. everyone wants to throw it themselves and it has held up well the last 4 weeks of league play. I would recommend that if you want to buy this to throw it, that you soak the handle in warm-hot water to ensure the head is firmly in place before doing so and then let it air dry of course. it only needs to be in water for a few minutes to really get its moisture level up to keep the head in place. dont overdo it.

Looks beautiful, the pictures don’t do justice but it looks beautiful. It’s got decent weight and balance.

It’s a hatchet, it’s not a log splitting axe, although it can do it. It’s not a razor blade, you’re not supposed to shave with it. Y’all that are complaining about how it does not come sharp enough have apparently lost sight of what an axe/hatchet does. Sharp gets stuck in wood (not good for it’s intended purpose), wedge shaped blades split wood (as in the dull one your hatchet arrived with). This is an amazing product at an excellent price .

For the price, I would have liked _much_ better craftsmanship. The design, solidity, and feel of the Freyr I received are great, but the finish on the handle was so thin that you could see the light wood showing through the fine, dry, open fissures – it had no kind of protective seal, just a little dark stain. In that sense, it lags behind cheap hardware store hatchets, which at least slop on a layer of polyurethane on the wood. That's pretty important for real-world use, where wooden handles are exposed to water, sweat, UV, grime, etc. Pretty lame, IMO.But the bigger issue might be that the blade grind is also much worse than cheap hardware store hatchets. It's a coarse angle unsuitable for cutting much of anything (I'd expect this angle on a splitting maul, not a hatchet moonlighting as a Viking weapon), and has a big old burr to boot. Sloppy. It's basically a costume prop, as received.I happen to be a fiddly-shop kind of fellow and will put a useful edge on this axe, just as I will add a protective finish on the handle. I like such projects, and had I purchased this Freyr at significant discount as a factory blemished item, I'd be very satisfied. But since I didn't, this is an overall dud. It was a face-palmingly poor value even for a fiddly guy like me, and would have been a near-ripoff for some young hopeful without the skills and tools to rehab the Freyr into what it was meant to be; a fetching, petite, cunningly conceived little slicer.Order at your own risk, and be ready to return if your example is as flawed as mine was.