Book-The Axe Manual of Peter McLaren America's Champion Chopper

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Ripshin Lumberjack

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Hi Everyone!

I just received by mail a small, old book published 1929. THE AXE MANUAL OF PETER MCLAREN AMERICA'S CHAMPION CHOPPER, IS
WRITTEN BY A PROFESSIONAL AXE MAN IN THE YEAR 1929. This book was published by Fayette R. Plumb Inc., the PLUMB Axe Company.

All of the information from the year 1929 is still valid today, eighty six years after publication. The important parts of the book can be downloaded from the internet, FREE! Just go to The Axe Manual of Peter McLaren and you will find the sites to download the information.

If possible, buy one of these small, old and out of print books. It will become a treasure to be passed down through generations.

$.25 was the cost of the book in 1929. I can only wonder what the cost would be today, if published in 2015. The used book market cost me cash that needed to be spent elsewhere.

Ripshin
 
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Very nice! Interesting that he recommends that you clip a fawn's foot butt so that it is easier to seat (or re-seat) the head. Exactly how I learned to do this years ago.
 
I had a couple old axes that had the old style of handle where the fawns foot was not cut off. I never realized the fawns foot came not cut off until I found these two old originals.

Ripshin
 
Ripshin Lumberjack said:
I had a couple old axes that had the old style of handle where the fawns foot was not cut off. I never realized the fawns foot came not cut off until I found these two old originals.

Ripshin
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Because many of the older hafts were not clipped (and current hafts are) there are many on this forum that try to emulate the old look when re-hafting a classic head. if it's strictly a 'user' and you've learned to easily and firmly seat a head by tapping the butt on a stump or other immovable semi-forgiving surface then having a perpendicular flat or gentle rounded butt is handier than a pocket in a shirt. A large part of the reason this works so well is that domestic axe heads are similar weight on either side of the eye (ie poll counterbalances the blade). The business of seating with regard to heads with a wrapped eye (no poll) is probably not as simple.
 
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