Axes

[harryc]

Looks like USA finally got one right:

http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/manufactu ... ting-gator

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http://yle.fi/uutiset/two_dead_in_oulu_ ... ck/7737995

http://yle.fi/uutiset/kalajoella_kirvee ... tu/7798579

(yes - an attempt at some dark humor)

[Pursuivant]

I think it was some crap designed and manufactured by an American company (Gerber?) that Fiskars bought.

[harryc]

This was the axe:

http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Re ... l-Penalty/

Pretty stupid 'invention' if so designed - responsible corporation was Fiskars of Madison, WI and there surely were Finns involved - nationalities have no patent rights on stupidity.

[Rosamunda]

Hello Trouble

Gerber products don't even carry the Fiskars brand name. Fiskars group is just the Holding Company for Arabia, Buster, Hackman, Kitchen Devils etc.
Presumably they have also had to dish out a ton of compensation in individual claims; the fine mentioned in the ruling is just an admin issue.

[Rip]

Gerber products don't even carry the Fiskars brand name.

Design of the ax itself has "Fiskars", not literally, but in figurative sense written all over it (I am not certain if it is the truth, but certainly their marketing years ago was that it was they who brought back (with the help of new materials) the stone age design of where the handle surrounds the head, not the other way around). Who had the bright idea of putting a knife inside the handle without a more solid locking mechanism, I do not know.

[harryc]

Who had the bright idea of putting a knife inside the handle without a more solid locking mechanism, I do not know.

That's really what this is all about isn't it? Just look what 2 countries can do when they combine their brainpower.

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btw - I was in N. California this summer. My friend there works in a big garden shop - he said the Fiskars snips were a sell-out every time they got a delivery - I forget whether he said 100's or 1000's - but anyhow a LOT. Seems they are very good for cutting Mary Jane's hair.

http://www2.fiskars.com/Gardening-and-Y ... NzGNvmUcmQ

[Rosamunda]

The snips are great as hoof trimmers for sheep too

[Pursuivant]

nationalities have no patent rights on stupidity.

Americans have a Constitutional Amendment "Not to Think with a Brain"

[Pursuivant]

The design is otherwise a good combination for say camping, but I'd done the knife go in with a screw bore, theres a lot of stuff out there with similar hidden blades.