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Pole Axe

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The Pole Axe was a very versatile weapon, not only could it be wielded as a two handed axe, but the sharp point doubled as a short spear, and the back spike could puncture armor and work as a hook to pull cavalry off their mounts. Features a high carbon steel head riveted to the squared hard wood shaft. A classic Medieval polearm.

4 reviews for Pole Axe

  1. Drew A.

    Strong pole axe Great piece. Nice detail and well built. The square handle is different but seems to help with the we apon rolling when striking a target.

  2. William Dezoma

    Strong and Beautiful This polearm has incredible strength and wonderful elegance of design. It manages to look both menacing and lovely. I sometimes wish it had a longer shaft so it could function as an honest halberd, but it makes a wonderful poleaxe.

  3. Anthony D.

    Very Nice Poleaxe Initial reactions — This Pole axe is pretty big, pretty solid, and very stabby. The square handle is a bit odd and feels a little clumsy, but I imagine sanding it down a bit will help with that issue. Really liked the addition of the buttcap as well.

    I bought a “munitions” grade special. For the life of me, if there’s a flaw I can’t find it.

    Shipping was very good. As always, a pleasure.

  4. Kasey

    RESPONSE TO ANTHONY D:

    Back in medieval times, there was a good reason that poleaxes, halberds, warhammers and similar weapons had square wooden shafts instead of round ones. And that reason is the following:

    Amidst the frantic chaos of battle, it was the squareness of the shaft that allowed the weapon’s wielder to chop and cleave with proper edge alignment on target because a round-shafted pole arm might roll in the hand on impact with the enemy’s body mass or armor due to the resisting impact-stress and shock.

    Think about it, assuming you’ve ever chopped wood;

    Even with a typical lock splitting axe’s ovular handle profile, the axe will spontaneously twist in your hand sometimes with every other chop of the axe head into a given log. So, to try and avoid this flaw in battle when wielding a polearm such as a poleaxe or halberd, every major military superpower in the middle ages that used them designed one with a square-sided pole shaft so that the wielder may easily know exactly which direction the cutting and stabbing surfaces of his weapon were facing on their way to the target, as well as to ensure that the powerful resistance created at the moment of impact would not force the weapon to twist in the wielder’s hands thus resulting in an inferior blow to the enemy.

    Thank you.

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