And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
About halfway on the length of the axe blade, the shortest distance from top to bottom LOOKS like a place where stress fractures will eventually break it. IMHO, of course. Overall, seems like an unnecessary bit of elaborate steel work. More impressive would be a nice Celtic knot or Viking rune engraved into the steel.
Is the cut away supposed to represent something or someone? I agree that where the body gets very narrow is a good point for a crack. Perhaps the originals were one long curve to discourage this.
About halfway on the length of the axe blade, the shortest distance from top to bottom LOOKS like a place where stress fractures will eventually break it. IMHO, of course. Overall, seems like an unnecessary bit of elaborate steel work. More impressive would be a nice Celtic knot or Viking rune engraved into the steel.
ReplyDeleteThat was my first thought exactly. Too much Forged in Fire for me!
DeleteUnless one is making art for its own sake, I see about 27 points of failure and fracture on a working tool.
DeleteStupid.
Pretty, but still stupid.
Nature anhors right angles.
DeleteIs the cut away supposed to represent something or someone? I agree that where the body gets very narrow is a good point for a crack. Perhaps the originals were one long curve to discourage this.
ReplyDeletehmm?
ReplyDeleteare you guys in the aspergers spectrum?
ReplyDeleteAsparagus? Ewww.
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