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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jun 28, 2017 - 11:03am PT
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I have a low rent collection of Bamboo axes. I know a few folks here have similar interests. I was looking to pick up a Zero in excellent condition- What is a ballpark fair price?
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jun 28, 2017 - 11:52am PT
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about 150 according to ebay, only one recent sale
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Jun 28, 2017 - 12:43pm PT
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Depends on vintage. Wood shafted tools command a bit higher price.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2017 - 02:52pm PT
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Thanks--I don't do anything with them but when I see one for cheap I usually pick it up and put it in the closet
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Jun 28, 2017 - 05:02pm PT
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I really have no idea what you're talking about...
Ha ha...
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 28, 2017 - 05:48pm PT
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Brian the sad thing (or the really GREAT thing) is I totally get it--something comes along and you just pull the trigger-because you can.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 28, 2017 - 10:34pm PT
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So my friend should keep using his to dig up his garlic?
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Aug 29, 2017 - 06:24am PT
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At least he's doing something with it!
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 29, 2017 - 07:39am PT
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Ebay prices for Chouinard axes have been quite low this summer. However several of the axes listed had damage, the most common damage being a cracked shaft.
This Chouinard Zero North Wall hammer sold for the incredibly low price of $293.50 with shipping on July 30th. I think most prospective buyers were put off by the very dark photos & the sellers vague statement "HAS SOME WEAR."
The MODEL ZERO Ice Axe & North Wall Hammer, with 55 Cm. laminated bamboo shafts, were introduced in the Chouinard Great Pacific Iron Works 1976 catalog. Wood shafts were discontinued on Chouinard axes in early 1979 in favor of synthetic blue shafts. http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=2906806&msg=2916311#msg2916311
Since they were only produced for 3 years, there are not many bamboo shaft Zeros out there. I've seen the North Wall Hammer bamboo Zero, in good condition, sell for as high as $900.00 on Ebay & the axe Zero, in good condition, sell for as high as $500.00 on Ebay.
Got mine!
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Scole
Trad climber
Zapopan
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Aug 29, 2017 - 11:05am PT
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I knew I should have held on to mine, but their sale financed yet another few days of climbing in the valley
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Aug 29, 2017 - 11:11am PT
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I won't claim to be very smart. I lost my Mickey Mantle rookie baseball card and I can't even remember what I did with all my vintage wood and bamboo shaft Couinard Ice Tools.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 29, 2017 - 03:47pm PT
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Bummer on the MM card!
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Dan Darragh
Mountain climber
Illinois
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Oct 19, 2018 - 09:31am PT
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Hello, a little late to the post, but what are your thoughts on this piece. Found it at a used gear shop all wrapped in sports tape. Boy was I surprised when I finished unwrapping pric[photoid=541431]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 19, 2018 - 09:47am PT
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I can't even remember what I did with all my vintage wood and bamboo shaft Couinard Ice Tools.
Woo-Hoo! I’m finally better than Jim! I traded mine to Roosians for titanium ice screws.
It was nice dealing as the house for a change. 🤡
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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Oct 19, 2018 - 10:06am PT
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anyone know what tools top climbers used in the mid-1970s when ice climbers first started freeing WI5 routes … I take it the shafts were wooden then
and also what kind of tools from that era (mid- to late 70s) did people take into the Alaska Range or Patagonia
last question: the next evolution (in shafts as opposed to picks) would be from wood to aluminum? I'd guess this transition happened circa 1980s
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 19, 2018 - 11:58am PT
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Terros were better in a bar fight in Scotland.
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Fritz
Social climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Oct 19, 2018 - 01:17pm PT
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I'd rather have an ice axe in a desperate fight.
On the evening of 20 August 1940, a man known as Frank Jacson called at a large house in the suburbs of Mexico City, and asked to see the ‘Old Man’ – as everyone called its celebrated resident, Leon Trotsky.
A few minutes later, the tip of the axe was buried more than two inches into Trotsky’s skull, becoming arguably the world’s most infamous murder weapon.
The axe was fleetingly displayed at a police press conference, but then disappeared for more than six decades.
In 2018 the bloodstained relic will go on public display at Washington’s International Spy Museum, which will reopen in a new building to accommodate thousands of other artifacts that have emerged from the shadows.
“The only chance he had was to kill him silently and then exit as a guest before they discovered the body,” Melton said.
A pistol would clearly not work in that case, and a dagger could not be guaranteed to kill Trotsky outright. By previous experience, the NKVD recommended blunt force to the back of the head to guarantee a completely silent death; to do the job Mercader stole the ice axe from his landlord’s son.
The axe is now among 5,000 artifacts that Melton is pledging to the International Spy Museum from his collection, which also includes a British one-man submarine used in second world war raids, and one of the plates used by the Nazis to forge perfect pound notes.
According to Melton, none of his treasures has quite the eerie presence of the ice axe. After letting Mercader into his study, Trotsky sat down to read his article, and the assassin attacked.
Trotsky let out a long scream and fought with his assailant until the guards arrived.
“I still remember looking through the open door and seeing my grandfather lying on the floor with his head bathed in blood and hearing him tell somebody to ‘keep the boy away, he shouldn’t see this’,” Volkov recalled on Wednesday. “I always thought that was a sign of his humanity. Even in a moment like that he was worried about me.”
Trotsky died of his wounds a little over 24 hours later in hospital. Mercader was put on trial and imprisoned for nearly 20 years.
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norm larson
climber
wilson, wyoming
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Oct 19, 2018 - 01:44pm PT
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I loved my Zero North wall hammer. I used it so much and sharpened it so often that the pick had to be more than an inch shorter than when new. Sold it to fund some other climbing gadget. Wish I would have hung on to it. A lot of memories with that tool.
Buying someone else’s now wouldn’t be quite the same but it would still be pleasing to fondle it now and then.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 19, 2018 - 02:25pm PT
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Fritz, a normal ice axe is no good in a low-ceilinged crowded Scottish pub!
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