1967 True-Temper catalog page scans

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From an old catalog I ran across in my archives:

Cover:

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Flint Edge Axes:

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All axes:

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Specialty axes:

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Wedges and mattocks:

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Brush hooks:

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Scythes

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Lath hatchets:

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Broad and half hatchets:

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Mauls:

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Any chance you could email me a high-res version of that last page there? Would love to have it for my scythe related research. :) :thumbup:
 
Damn; I was only a year away from a driver's license at the time! Thank you for posting this. Funny how local hardware stores and lumber suppliers displays in my area never had anywhere near the tool variety on display as was actually available.
 
It seems like a few people here and on one other forum I am aware of may have posted about a ridged-eye Hudson Bay...maybe those are the Woodslashers.
 
i have a couple of the Tommy's but without the nail pullers. these are some of the finest hatchets ever made, including Norlund and Snow & Nealley
i also have a wood slasher but not a Hudson bay style.
thanks for posting.
gben, you have some boys axe handles , send me a pm
buzz
 
cityofthesouth said:
Anyone ever see a Kelly Hudson Bay? Good post gben - I always like seeing these.
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I have one. Unmarked but ridges in the eye. It's huge. 28" handle and 2.5 or more lbs. Too big in my opinion. Totally unwieldy and awkward Hudson bay. Also has a little sheath just covers the blade part of the bit and snaps underneath. I'll try to post a picture in the HB thread sometime but right now my photobucket is full.

Gben thanks for posting, I love the old tool catalogs.
 
halfaxe said:
I have one. Unmarked but ridges in the eye. It's huge. 28" handle and 2.5 or more lbs. Too big in my opinion. Totally unwieldy and awkward Hudson bay. Also has a little sheath just covers the blade part of the bit and snaps underneath. I'll try to post a picture in the HB thread sometime but right now my photobucket is full.

Gben thanks for posting, I love the old tool catalogs.
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Makes sense really - if your Kelly HB is from the 1960s or maybe 1970s, the death era of axe quality, the size, small sheath, etc. Damn chainsaw anyway.
 
i have a 4lb true temper flint edge (no kelly works stamp) in both connecticut pattern as well as rafting patterns. they are both excellent axes, and the steel is very, very hard-- as hard (if not harder) than my collins legitimus axes. even though my axes arent listed in the catalog, i assume they are from the same era. the craftsmanship on my axes is also superb-- very good profile, and very very smooth and even.
 
idaho_crosscut said:
i have a 4lb true temper flint edge (no kelly works stamp) in both connecticut pattern as well as rafting patterns. they are both excellent axes, and the steel is very, very hard-- as hard (if not harder) than my collins legitimus axes. even though my axes arent listed in the catalog, i assume they are from the same era. the craftsmanship on my axes is also superb-- very good profile, and very very smooth and even.
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If it says true temper Flint Edge(no works or other markings) on it then it's probably post 1949. They still made good quality axes up until about the mid 1960s, then the overall quality fell off.
 
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