Boarding Axe

Boarding Axe 24.5in

Epic Armoury’s Boarding Axe is a heavy 24.5 in axe designed for sailors and swashbucklers. It has an axe blade with a 6 in blade, and along with its spike, it is great for both attacking your enemy and chopping down doors when attempting to commandeer a ship! The short hooked axe head is hand-painted to look like real metal (although it is made of soft foam), and is attached to the handle designed to look like weathered wood.

Made from durable closed cell foam around a solid fiberglass core and finished with a strong latex coating, your new LARP axe will provide the safety and appeal you want when crafting your LARPt kit.

History

• The first hafted axe was created about 6,000 B.C. using birch-tar and raw-hide lashings to fix the blade to its handle
• Many battle axes doubled as tools and were cheaper to make than swords
• Boarding axes were designed to be heavy to cut through grappling lines, and were used during the 17th and 18th centuries