Cold Steel Trail Boss Hickory Handle
May 24, 2017 - Comment
The Trail Boss is light and compact enough to carry all day in your hand or strapped to your pack, yet heavy and tough enough for chores that would make a hatchet or tomahawk scream for mercy. Featuring a European style head with a 4″ blade and a 4 1/2″ cutting edge, it takes a big bite with every swing. Plus, it features a very stout straight-grained Hickory handle. Extensively field-tested by Lynn C. Thompson on a month long hunting trip in the outback of Australia, the Trail Boss was really put to the test. He used it to chop kindling, clear roads and trails, to build blinds and even to chop down a fair sized Gidgee Tree (one of the hardest woods found down under).
Product Features
- Hawk Length: 6 1/2 – Inch
- Handle: American Hickory
- Overall Length: 26 – Inch
- Steel: Drop Forged 1055 Carbon
- Primary Edge: 4 1/2 – Inch
- Weight: 2.70 lbs.
- Drop Forged 1055 Carbon Steel
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and with work can be a great tool. I won’t give this a lower rating … Now some people may hesitate now and days with cold steel’s products, but this is a solid hatchet. It’s reliable, and with work can be a great tool. I won’t give this a lower rating because it came dull, or it had defects, or it had a bad coating on the handle, because we’re supposed to care for our tools strait away, like a new born added to our collection. We have to clean it, and dress it. Doing so with sandpaper and boiled linseed oil will protect the blade, adding some paracord to the head…
Great buy! Works like a boss!!!! If it came with a sheath I’d give it the full 5 stars! So I made my own sheath for it with some pvc and it came out great. With dozens of times using this axe it has kept its performance and durability. I have had no trouble sharpening it, the head has not come loose, and the handle has not received any damage. I love the weight handle length, and design as a take anywhere and reliably get the job done tool! I sanded the hickory handle and stained it a shade darker to…
Broke within minutes Within the first few minutes of use, the handle broke right where the head is attached.