da_bish wrote:What's with the curly weapon hafts these days?
It's a safety thing, new workplace regulations. All ridiculously oversized fantasy weapons have to have rubber handles, so no one pokes out their eyes on them.
The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, he said.
I think the axe handle is meant to be ergonomical, like those new snow shovel designs designed to save your back. (But I guess you UKers don't know anything about that.)