Chinese Ax(?) Head, Partial; with Added Interior Mass

wlwhittier

wlwhittier

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Weighs ~24.5 ounces. Note the slug of iron inside, with thin bamboo wedges/shims driven in to hold it in place.

Bought on eBay for $.01 (plus $14.99 freight), from China.

I have doubts about it being an ax head, in any ordinary sense of the word...more likely used at the (fitted) end of a pole as a slick, or crude adze.

I think it'll clean up...and I may try to remove the iron slug with sodium hydroxide to eat away the bamboo.

Anybody have experience with anything similar? Thanks, wlw

PS: Pics below...I must have screwed up, somehow. Never happened before!!
 
Somewhere I saw a splitting tool that was like a post rammer with a wedge on the end, and maybe it was from something like that. It could also have been from one of those wedges that slide up and down on a Mount.
 
Those are for wood splitting. I have a couple made in Austria by Stubai. The wood takes the impact and can be replaced.
 
They're particularly good for deep splits because you can make the wooden shaft as long as you need. They do bear a form of construction akin to socket axes, though, and could probably be used as one if mounted up in similar fashion.
 
I have five wood socket or Michigan Wedges 2 felling and 3 splitting Bought them after reading about them in three older books. Would not sell then for any price
 
I've never seen a wedge lime that before.
The one I was thinking of looks like somebody made it using one of those wedge heads, I think an old neighbor had it or something.
 
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