For the connoisseur or obsessive, depending on your point of view! Below are images of billhooks (handbills if you are from the Weald and there abouts) and some other allied tools that are to the traditional taste of woodsmen from the South of England.

Photos of edge tools made by big manufacturers in the Midlands

Photos of edge tools made in the Weald of Sussex and Kent

Photos of South Western type edge tools

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