>>220032>Not very diverseThat's a fair cop. Scandi grinds abound. I will post the folding collection later though, it has a lot more American and continental style blades.
I will say that I appreciate and have handled modern style fixed blades. Kydex sheaths are really great. Finding a good traditional sheath in leather is hard, you have to watch out for getting them wet, they only rarely have drainage holes (Ahti does great leather sheaths) and by design your blade tends to stick in there making a lot of in-and-out impractical.
>What do you use your axes/hatchets for?The hatchets are camp tools. Wood splitting and fire prep. The older looking one is my great grandmothers and she was truly /out/ much of the year collecting berries, herbs and mushroom or just tending the farmlands. I got hold of a more modern variant to use for myself (I want to spare the relic).
That size hatchet I have had easily in the backpack or even my pocket (edge wrapped of course), handle up. Combined with a small fixed blade or folder you are set up to do most camp tasks.
The larger axes are very funky. Handmade bearded axes, one has a common taper, the other is unusually convex. I have used these for camping tasks too, the main difference is you can really process fallen trees, fell smaller ones or de-limb as needed (don't worry, I'm a land owner). You can also make shelters and "furniture" easily.
>I'm guessing the mora whittling knife and the large mora without guardYou would be correct, those are the most used and I'm the second generation owner of them to boot (lots of inherited knives, I know!).
However, I've recently switched over to using my Ahti knives, the Korpi especially. I bought their carving knife based on my love of the Mora whittler - it's just a great tool.
I'll post about the history of the horse head knife later.
