Ordinary Banana

reminds me of a "fuller" http://sbg-sword-store.sword-buyers-guide.com/wordpress/hollow-ground-blades-rare-sharp-and-hard-to-do-right/ … I am not an axe dood though. may not at all be a "fuller" thingy, and may have its own axe nomenclature

@realjdburnett you have betrayed me by @-ing me and then evidently providing a more accurate answer than I could muster

would you care to speculate publicly about why they're no longer featured on modern axes before i explain the actual reaso, or...?

whatever their original function was, the reason they're no longer commonplace is mass production

haha maybe i have no idea

based on my being a Bicycle Historian that's probably it <some detail that used to take 2% of the total time of producing Bicycle> might take 20% of the total time of producing Bicycle, if you become very fast at doing the raw non-detail stuff

but wouldn't these be cast rather than sculpted?

or cut or worked or w/e