made a new poleaxe and I would like to share it with you

total length 188 cm
total weight 1604 gram
point of balance 42,5 cm from hammerhead

hope you like it

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Great work, Ben! I would love to own one like this someday :) Have you tested it on any armour yet? ;)

Looks simply and nice, like serious business skull crusher.

Would be cool to see it in motion.

Congrats.

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That is a nice weapon

Seems very likable indeed. :cool:

Wow - really like that one.

Simple clean lines and look " BRUTAL " in a nice way. ;) :D :cool:

Wow! That's a great weapon! Simple but elegant. I just wonder if 1.6 kg is a tad too light for an anti-armor polearm. Looks like something one would use for home defense (if there is such thing as home-defense polearm anyway), not take to an armored duel or campaign.

Very elegant! How is the head attached? Are the langets holding it on, or is it somehow fitted to the shaft as well?

Oh i like it too. I can't wait to hold it in my Hands. :D

To think of a Pollaxe as a anti-armour-weapon is a misconception in my Opinion. My Armour ist hardened to about 400 VHS and i have a test-Plat of the same hardness. By now no Weapon has managed to make a bigger Damage tha a scratch. This Plate is fixed at a Piece of wood, damaging an Armour on a wearer should be more difficult.

I think a Weapon like this was used to attack the less armoured Parts, bring the Enemy to Ground by various techniques or hurt him through his Armour. Piercing an hole in the Armours schould be nearly impossible.
Thats why most Pollaxes with a hammerhead are rather light like the one Ben made.

Besides this, i am very pleased with Bens Work an his delivery time is unbelievable. In about twenty Years in which i hade to do with Craftmen of Weapon replicas it was my fastest Comission.

Best regards

Andrej

Beautiful work. shipping these to customers must be a real hassle though.

you know the more I look at the picture of the original the more I have a question I want to ask.

obviously the one Ben made has the spike being a separate piece than the head and it is held down by the langets that are forged as part of the spike.

it looks to me like maybe the original's spike is forged as part of the head and the top langet is a loop with langets on the sides and is being used to hold the entire head down.

for those who have seen originals what do you think? am I looking at it all wrong?

thank you

Hi all thanks for the kind words.
I have attached the head with a litle pin trough the hammerhead into the shaft so it can't shift on the pole.

I think the top spike is attached to the langets on the original.
This is a common practice on poleweapons.
I have never seen the langetes loop over the spike.

Ben

thanks Ben, I was looking at the lines of the bevels and all that and noticed how they flow together and it just gave me that impression.

Wow...

Few things shout "OPEN UP!" to a plate of armor like a poleaxe!

Excellent work!