This is just an axe. No explanation necessary. Get your pocket knife out and get started. Please note that the handle extends out over the edge of the chopping block. Sorry! That is what it is. Did your dad or grand daddy have one? Everyone had one in years past. It is a good place to split fire wood. It is only about an inch and a half in diameter. You can build one any size. This is made from mountain laurel that came from the forest above Boone, NC. When I look at it I remember when my wife and I were tramping those woods and I have pleasant memories.
I like to use wooden or other types of objects to remember times or places.
I have included here a picture of a stylized giraffe I carved from pecan wood. When hurricane Hugo went through South Carolina several years ago it blew large limbs off of my brother-in-laws pecan trees. They were planted many years ago by the father of his wife. I got some of the wood and made several things for her. I made some doll furniture and a nice box. She collects doll furniture. She now has some pecan chairs. It is a reminder of hurricane Hugo. The family spent the night in a leaking school building in fear for their lives. Does she need reminding? Well, they all lived and things got better. Don't we all remember the bad times and give thanks for better times? It is a good thing to remember hurricane Hugo after it is over for years. The pecan wood was not wasted and I though enough of her to build her some trinkets. She shows them when I go there. I hope she remembers me fondly when she looks at them.
Dan is gone now. When I look at the giraffe I remember the day he came to my hunt camp in South Carolina with the pecan wood that he had saved for me as I had requested. Dan tried to do anything I requested. Dan tried to do anything anyone requested.