Favorite Axe/Hatchet Internet Personality?

I spend a lot of time listening to reviews or watching videos on techniques or camp crafts. This is usually the pass time when I can’t be out using my tools or whittling (or spending meaningful time with my family); I figure folks around here might be cut from similar cloth. I thought I’d pose the question, who’s your favorite axe/hatchet-related internet personality, and why?

Judge them on the content, the production value or their personalities. Love ‘um or hate ‘um, they’re fans of the axe on some level.

I have two I tend to enjoy for opposite reasons.
1) WranglerStar: the combination of being enthusiastic, a little goofy, and not having all the facts make him a particular train wreck that I enjoy watching.
2) skillcult: here’s a guy who seems to practice his preaching. Sometimes the explanations aren’t very good (especially anything with physics), but in general I get the impression he’s a man of experience and works at developing his axemanship.

In his own special category is Bernie Weisgerber- I recently watched the video “An Axe to Grind”. After having read the book a bunch of times, it was great to get a better impression of the man himself. I think he’d make a great Internet personality. I could watch him talk about marbles for an hour and enjoy it.

 

Yessir, I’d love to listen to that.
Also... evening ranger talks? Sounds like something I gotta look into.

Even better- in these strange days it seems folks really listen to people who’ve lost their marbles.

Something tells me you have plenty of stories and ideas about axes, forestry, and maintaining the old ways. I hope of an opportunity comes up to do something like a pod cast comes up that you take it! I’d enjoy hearing what you have to say.

 

What an odd way to lift up a member of the forums, while conversely trashing the very information-sharing medium you just signed up for.

I don't know why you think it's unfortunate that forums are mostly people-oriented; I think that's the inevitable outcome.
Philosophically, an axe with no one to use it is just steel and wood. We only care about axes in the first place because of what they mean to us.
Analytically, there's a finite amount of historical information one can learn about an axe, but an infinite number of things that can be accomplished with one.
Of course forums would be chiefly centered around "look what I got" and "look what I did".

I'm glad Steve Tall is a researcher; any forum really needs that aspect to be well rounded. There's a bunch of folks here who are interested in the historical aspect, so I hope you discover them.

 

yeah, I don’t know why it’s so much fun to watch people get stuff so wrong. I don’t think folks have to have all the facts to make videos, but I think having some information is kind of critical. For some reason WranglerStar is just unapologetically WranglerStar.