I think what I was referring to were called''Big Birds" full size 50cm tools, and I believe the last rendition had carbon shafts
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Certainly not definitive, (I sold Lowe and Chouinard tools in the early 80s), but I don't remember the Big Birds as having either a carbon or a bent shaft. I remember the fiberglass Hummingbird, and used a metal Hummingbird. My recollection was that Chouinard was the first to use carbon, with an aluminum core, in their Zeros and North Wall hammers (with forged Camp heads). Are you thinking perhaps of the Camp Woodpecker? I'm not sure if they had a carbon version. Dogleg is certainly an appropriate term for their reverse-utility bend. (I hope someone was fired for that design!)