I've had this axe for about 6 years and what I love most about it is how long it stays sharp. I always sharpen it up to razor sharpness (shaves hair). And after a weekend with lots of chopping, splitting and carving with it I only have to strope it on leather to get it back to shaving sharp.
@@frenstcht I wouldn't recomment it for carving. The angle on the grind is too wide. This makes it great for splitting and many other more "brute force" jobs. For carving i would rather go with a gransfors bruks, as they have more steep angles on their blades.
There is a lot of hate for these hatchets, I have had one for a couple of years and at first it glanced on me a couple of times. Once I got used to its strange geometry i actually learned to love it, Its my everyday work axe now.
Everything by Heimo Roselli is the epitome of Finnish outdoors life, his knives and axe's are simple ergonomically designed tools made from premium materials without resorting to gaudy marketing gimmicks. You can stake your life on their reputation as can and literally does happen in the snowy forest arctic regions.
I own a Roselli ax. Your review is fine! There is no one stroke 'Magic' in sectioning tree trunks or in splitting hardwood. Your video is especially realistic as to the way the ax functions.
Woodswalker (wish I knew your name), you are a great reviewer and a fun personality to watch. Subscription well earned. I think I might need to pick one of these up.
Thank you for the review. I like your upbeat style you dont take yourself too seriously. I have see a similar axe made by Kellam and was always curious. Looked kind of wonky to me. I can see that with a good saw (silky etc.)it would be tough to beat. I carry an ox head axe when I hike and hunt. Im an axe junky.
I pegged some Ti stakes in the video and it did ok but have axes with more effective hammer backs as this one has a smaller hammer back. I live in the land of Birch bark so never needed to make feather sticks with an axe. Done it just for kicks with a knife but never an axe. Somehow I feel with thick profile might be a negative for that. However splits great and chops better than I originally expected. Thanks for watching!
Just got mine in today. Took 3 days to get to IL from freakin' Finland. How the hell is that possible?? Anyway, what a weird looking tool! So much lighter, with a small, but thick head. Head was allot smaller than I expected ( yeah, yeah, I know. Thats what she said! ) But I can see why it would be a great all around tool. I have a Wetterlings Bushman that I cut down a bit, and cant wait to compare them. Do you still use the Roselli?
I have had success with maple though does make for an ok bearing block. My preferred is Yucca, Sycamore, Mullein, cedar (avoid the red heart wood) and willow. Thanks for watching!
Interesting Axe. I've heard of the company before but never liked into them much. The round of the blade was kind of a turn off. I don't really have a reason why. But anyway, I had been considering a Gränsfors outdoors axe. This seems like it would be a similar option.
I love h roselli knives ,love them , I'll take one over any other knife, but this axe/hatchet, it pains me to say ,and maybe it's me but it's lacking in everything except splitting wood
Finns are not Scandinavian They do not speak a Scandinavian language. Those languages are Germanic. Finnish is close to Estonian and Hungarian. Want a generic adjective or noun? Try "Nordic."
I really wanted this axe to be good, but it looked like it made a lot of work out of the chopping. A cheap chinesium metal axe for a few dollars would have probably done a lot better. Shame, like I said, I really wanted this to work.
You should try it yourself though. I have been using this axe for over 6 years now and I have to say, that this guys obviously wasn't very skilled at chopping. Of course the thickness of the axe head makes it very different to wield that e.g. a gransfors bruks. But it is absolutely awesome.
BE CAREFULL : DO NOT fell a tree during night time, because this task still difficult day time may be real dangerous when its impossible or near impossible to seeing clearly your environment.
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I can go to a flea market and pick up and axe at a flea market for 5$ dollars with arguably better better more precise heat treatment and rivaling steel quality probably even a sheath
Thats the worst axe I have ever used. It's a bad cutter, the bit is too wide, it's a bad splitter, the head is too light, it's too dangerous, the axe glances very easily, and it's way tooo expensive.
Actually my preferred is the wetterlings bushman axe though the mask/sheath is total garbage. Not sure why they made a winner of an axe with that horrible thing (easily pops off and got cut reaching for the axe in my pack). Also have a wetterlings camp axe. In fact own a good number of different pack axes and hawks. Like knives and flashlights. Got too many. LOL!
I own 37 axes from different maker of 9 different countries, fellers, buckers, splitters, limbers, pruners, racers and butchers. And there are more axes in our family, we use them and at the moment I still don't have enough of them. The Bushman axe is a very simmilar one to the Roselli but a better one. The bit is too wide and the handle too log, it will split well but cut bad. The way to go if you only take an axe is to have a good cutter, you will cut perfectly and with wood knowledge and technique you can split seriously. With a splitter you will split well but you can't do anything to better its cutting capacity, you will have a good splitter but a bad cutter.
