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Marquise Boarding Axe

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$89.95

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This boarding axe has been based on a French original and is fitted with a hefty head of unsharpened high carbon steel. It is secured to a blackened hardwood shaft. Two langets protect the upper part of the shaft from the bite of enemy blades. It has an integrated steel belt hook / baldric hook for ease of carry.

Both weapon and tool, the boarding axe or Hache du Bord was an indispensable aid to naval conflict in the Age of Sail. The boarding axe was not only ferocious weapon in close combat, but it could be used, as its name implies, to assist a boarder in boarding a taller enemy vessel by using the pick to dig into the side of a hull and clamber on up. Once on deck it was not only useful in decisively dispatching a foe with its axe blade or pick, but it could be used to clear through debris and to chop apart locked and barricaded doors belowdecks.

Not just an offensive weapon, the defenders of a ship would use their boarding axes to clear away fallen and tangled rigging and spars and to dig out hot shot (heated cannonball) that had become embedded in the hull and clear it away before a fire could break out. The hefty axe head could chop away the ropes on boarding hooks. With its weighted axe head, it could also be a cruel surprise to a boarder when a defender swung it down on him as he was about to come over the rail.

2 reviews for Marquise Boarding Axe

  1. Talonsoldat

    Not very battle ready Got it today took it out to test the blade, cut through one young tree and the langets bottom pin cam out, not sure if this is a machining error or what, rest of the axe is great

  2. Griff

    Soft wood & langets I got this because I really like the head and wanted to fit it to a pole. That being said whenever I handled this axe in person I always felt like the handle was made of inferior wood. The head was a little wobbly, which will only get worse the more you use it. Since I’m planning on scraping everything and just want the head, I decided to see if I could break it. I gave 7 good swings into a piece of wood laying horizontally on the ground (the swing was also horizontal, not vertical) with the spike and 2 with the blade side (unsharpened) for a total of 9 swings. As I suspected the head got progressively looser and the soft handle cracked at the top. The metal used for the belt clip is soft and bent forward or backward depending. That being said, the langets helped keep the head from flying away when the break occurred and the head (which may or may not be one forged piece, I see a bit of sheet metal were the handle inserts) held up great. If you absolutely must use it, just go out and buy a better section of wood to build your own handle. As it sits, I’d say it’s ready for 1/6 of a battle. Would I buy another? For $80 I’d buy two more and replace the handles. If your still on the fence just buy it, you’ll enjoy it. unless you need a serious wood cutting axe or an ice pick, then I’d keep looking

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