Hey Guys,
Gee, I really hoped for more participation, but I guess I've been absent myself, so I can't really gripe.
Well anyway, Don came closest to the answer I was looking for. The bit left unaddressed by Don is the curvature of the handle. In North American style broad axes, the head is symmetrical top to bottom, with an asymmetric bevel. So a lefty would, as Don said, flip the head over top to bottom. The problem is the handle. The handle curves outward from the head to the foot, away from the log being hewn, giving the user room for his hands while hewing to the line. A lefty would have to bend a new handle to the opposite curve.
I'll toss a half point to Dennis for coming up with the crazy (IMHO) Skandihoovian solution of forging two different shaped heads. Why on earth? Oh well.
Cheers,
Tom
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