Miners axe, rafting axe, construction axe
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The handle on that Plumb is super nice! Must have been customized.The Plumb is 26" and the Mann is 24.5"
Miner.rafting by Agent Hierarchy, on Flickr
I actually use and quite enjoy a 30" Collins (marked opposite side) with a handle set up just like the Plumb in the picture. I find it does a great job splitting if your rounds are setting on another round/block.
300Six, I bet you are right that the shorter handles are something suited to tighter quarters, choking up, and being persuasive lol.
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if you don't mind me asking. What was OAL of the plumb 5lb that you have that never was hung? Trying to find out length of a true full bit.
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Sorry it took so long to respond.
The un-hung Dreadnaught measures 8-5/8" x 4-7/8". I have a couple lightly used Plumbs that measure 8-1/2" x 4-15/16".
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Quite the little rafter party there! I think that Kelly Charleston is an old one, maybe 1930s.
Just what I wanted to hear. The two I got are same measurements, the light 5 being 8.5".
Thank you for the info, knowing length of a nos model is very useful.
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Yes sir!
May I ask what file you used to stand your waffle pattern back up,jewelers?
Thank you. Stumptown Axes did that handle for me, he does amazing work.
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You can reset the lines by working in from the edges with either a knife (shaped) file or a slender half round file. Then once you have a track to follow use a 3-square (triangle) file. The 3-square file has the correct angle for the waffle pattern.
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I found the thread where I described my process.
Finally hung my rafting axe
If someone were extraordinarily ambitious and skilled with a file I believe they could mill a waffle pattern on a smooth face poll. And I bet it would be much easier on a poll that wasn't hardened. Do you think! How ever and what ever I'm impressed with what you did.
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Thank you!I found the thread where I described my process.
Finally hung my rafting axe
If someone were extraordinarily ambitious and skilled with a file I believe they could mill a waffle pattern on a smooth face poll. And I bet it would be much easier on a poll that wasn't hardened. Do you think! How ever and what ever I'm impressed with what you did.