>>373229>>373255>>373272Based on my axe, with a 800g head and a hickory hande weighing 250g (The whole thing weighed just short of 1.05kg and the head weighs 800g) with a total length of 38.1cm hickory handles weigh 6.56 grams per cm.
Based on the fiskars X7 with a head weight of 470g and a total weight of 645g which gives a 175g handle, the handle is about 6cm short of the total length (Cutting edge of 6.8cm but there's a bit of a beard) so comes in at 29.5cm, giving 5.93 grams per cm.
That's 0.63 grams extra per centimeter for a hickory handle than for Fiskars.
Even in a 1 meter long axe, this is only 63 grams extra to take a hickory handle over a Fiskars fibreglass handle (Or whatever their marketing term is). The biggest axes one might take camping are probably like 65cm, so that's 41 grams.
Only the ultralight hikers give a shit about 41 grams, and they probably won't carry an axe at all.
