1967 True-Temper catalog page scans

[FortyTwoBlades]

They still made good quality axes up until about the mid 1960s, then the overall quality fell off.

True of American tool makers in general!

 

[Square_peg]

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.

I've had similar experience with Flint Edge axes. Very good steel both under the file and in the woods. They are underrated.

 

[BG_Farmer]

I've had similar experience with Flint Edge axes. Very good steel both under the file and in the woods. They are underrated.

I'd say the same thing about Woodslasher axes, also, and my double-bit is circa 1980. Possibly they used better steel on the perfects etc., but it is very likely same material and processing, just less finishing work. The woodslashers have unground/rough ground top and bottom edges, for example. My guess is labor costs counted more than material, increasingly so in the 60s and 70s on...

 

[Square_peg]

Also slight aberrations in the centering of the eye would cause an axe to be rejected as a 'Perfect'. Plus Perfect axes usually had a hardened poll.

 

[gben]

Added two pages to beginning of thread with many hatchets, and per request re-scanned Scythe page at higher resolution.

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

Thanks, man! I appreciate that!

 

[gben]

Added image at thread start which shows splitting mauls.

 

[rjdankert]

Added image at thread start which shows splitting mauls.

Image not showing up for me. Anyone else have the problem?

thanks,

Bob

 

[Agent_H]

From an old catalog I ran across in my archives:

Similar? The one in your catalog looks to have a defined area or difference in thickness between the cheeks and eye/poll.

Thank you for the scans of your original resources.

 

[gben]

Bob, sorry you can not see any images. Agent H can see them so maybe it must be a problem on your end.

And Agent H thanks for the photos of that 8# maul. One thing about the catalog is that it uses illustrations, not photographs, so that means they are an artists interpretation, and also any individual maul may be of a year different than the catalog, so unless we find other catalogs from different years showing changes there is probably no way to know what year our mauls have been made.

I can see that Agent H's maul looks like it takes the sort of handle a large hammer would take and not an axe handle, maybe it is the "oval eye" that the catalog refers to. I do not know if True Temper supplied mauls to Sears/Craftsman, but the six-pound maul my father bought from Sears 40+ years ago is forged steel and similar in style to those shown in the catalog, it also has the same eye as a single-bit axe.

These mauls are devastating tools for splitting wood. I am glad I have the six-pounder as I think I am getting too old for anything heavier!

 

[gben]

Cleaned up thread and added page at beginning with Brush Hooks! Thank-you......

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

From an old catalog I ran across in my archives:

Cover:

Flint Edge Axes:

All axes:

Specialty axes:

Wedges and mattocks:

Brush hooks:

Scythes

Lath hatchets:

Broad and half hatchets:

Mauls:

By any chance, could you repost the 1967 catalog? thanks

 

[rjdankert]

By any chance, could you repost the 1967 catalog? thanks

Here are the scans:














Bob

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

Thanks!!! I've been looking for info on hudson bay woodslasher

 

[Steve Tall]

Since no date was listed on the scanned catalog pages, I was wondering if I-67 really was the 1967 catalog. The answer ended up being "yes", and evidently it's 1-67 not I-67.

True Temper's copyright detail for that catalog (listed as 27 pages):
Tools for industry; catalog 1-67. 27 p. © True Temper Corp.; 29Dec66 (in notice: 1967); A934419.

from Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1967: July-December

So, that catalog was produced before Allegheny-Ludlam Steel Co. acquired True Temper in 1967.

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

Anyone ever see a Kelly Hudson Bay? Good post gben - I always like seeing these.

I think this one is newer than 1967 (cannot spot temper or high carbon steel insert line)