New Axes - Throwingzone Ceratops Custom

Now that I have reviewed my competition knives in no-spin throwing, it is time to present the axes I already use. They arrived two weeks before the World Championships, so I have only been throwing with them for a couple of months at this point. However, it was given sparingly, as it was knife throwing, I invested in both in that competition and the recently completed Swedish Championships. 

But for those who follow the blog, you know that the axes already have some Swedish merits in the form of a silver in long-distance throwing and a bronze in Walk Back.

But the custom Ceratops from Throwingzone are still new in that I haven't featured them here on the blog until now. Those who follow me on Instagram have probably seen them before.

Throwingzone Ceratops Custom 

So these are throwing axes we're talking about. These happen to be forged in Italy by Rinaldi, and the model is an interpretation of a francisca. But then they've undergone a transformation. These axes are customized by Guillaume Henry from French Throwingzone, who also sells the original. 

What he has done primarily is that he has lightened the axe, which also changes the balance. This has been done by, among other things, changing the profile, mainly adding a rear curve to the head itself. The original axe is almost straight there. Then the axe head is thinned and the edge sharpened. Even though the latter has been destroyed by throwing.

Furthermore, a hole has been drilled through the head for a through bolt whose function is understood to be to hold it in place. Some axe models have the property that you have to tap the head firmly between each throw to prevent it from coming loose. It is, of course, both a strength and a potential weakness of the shaft itself to do it this way. The future will tell how it will turn out. 

I have heard from hearsay that it is possible to break axe shafts of this type, but I have seen how hard some people throw. They probably break most things!

It started out as a regular Rinaldi Fransisca. The axe heads are lightened and re-profiled.

The original weighs around 760 g. In this version, the axe weighs 594 grams. The height of the head is around 185 mm, and the thickness behind the edge is around 3 mm. The edge length is, of course, 120 mm because the rules stipulate that they cannot be longer. One edge was even 3 mm too long, so I had to grind it down at the weigh-in at the World Championships.

The hickory handles are as long as you make them. In this case, the axe is 33.5 cm long. Incidentally, the handles have already been replaced once when there was a lot of play in the axes after the handles dried over the winter in France, and were then taken out and used in full summer heat. The wood shrank considerably, and after that, the fit was not great.

I like the axes initially, but I don't have a lot to compare them to. In the collection, there is a set of Norse Hawks. These feel completely different from them, I can say.

A proper evaluation will follow, but I need to throw these out for a while to lay the foundation for one. 

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