Dollar-fifty Flint-Edge update

[gben]

Six years ago my wife bought an old True-Temper, Kelly-Works Flint-Edge at a local estate-sale for a dollar-fifty-cents, bartering the price down from an outlandish two-dollars. It's handle was grey and loose and it's head was brown. I think it is older because it has none of the eye-ridges used to grip the handles which True Temper started using I think at some time in the 1960s. I think the handle is original too
the axe.
I put a new wedge in and saturated the handle with linseed oil a few times, which turned it a dark charcoal grey. It has been my go-to axe for general use the last six years and no part of it has given up, the handle is as solid as the day it was made, the head has stayed tight and it has held it's edge.

Felled a nuisance tree with it a few days ago and had fun knocking the limbs off all of it today before bucking it into sixteen inch lengths with a one-man crosscut, taking advantage of a few unseasonably mild days here on the south-shore of Lake Erie.

 

[Blackcloud]

Excellent! Now THAT looks like a great hard working axe.

 

[gben]

Excellent! Now THAT looks like a great hard working axe.

I like to say that ANY old USA made axe that anyone finds laying around can do anything anyone wants. Nobody needs new trendy axes and nobody needs trendy collector's items like the ridiculous Black Raven axes. Any USA made axe, even if it was a base model like a WoodSlasher or Flint-Edge etc. is going to be able to get the job done for anyone for the rest of their lives.

 

[npace]

Six years ago my wife bought an old True-Temper, Kelly-Works Flint-Edge at a local estate-sale for a dollar-fifty-cents, bartering the price down from an outlandish two-dollars. It's handle was grey and loose and it's head was brown. I think it is older because it has none of the eye-ridges used to grip the handles which True Temper started using I think at some time in the 1960s. I think the handle is original too
the axe.
I put a new wedge in and saturated the handle with linseed oil a few times, which turned it a dark charcoal grey. It has been my go-to axe for general use the last six years and no part of it has given up, the handle is as solid as the day it was made, the head has stayed tight and it has held it's edge.

Felled a nuisance tree with it a few days ago and had fun knocking the limbs off all of it today before bucking it into sixteen inch lengths with a one-man crosscut, taking advantage of a few unseasonably mild days here on the south-shore of Lake Erie.

Nice. Who’s the maker of the saw?

 

[FLINT77]

Nice Flint Edge Michigan! and LOVE the handle!! What is the total length of the handle? looks like you have plenty of tongue should you need to rehang/seat it down lower if you ever need to. Super!

 

[junkenstien]

One of the benefits of living in the greatest country in the world,you can get some of the best tools ever made cheaper than a soda pop.

 

[mobenzowner]

If you ever want to double your money, just drop me a line...….

 

[gben]

I don't know what brand the saw is, I can not see an etch on the blade, maybe someday if I get extra time I will clean it up to see if I can find a name on it. I do know the plate is .063 thick. I had to sharpen it and put more set in the teeth to get it to cut well.

The axe handle is just a standard length handle, whatever True-Temper put on it's axes for decades probably. I will measure it when I get a chance.

And Junkenstein, if the USA was the "greatest country in the world", you would not be able to find used tools for nothing because the use for them would not have been destroyed by shipping all USA industry and manufacturing out of the country, and it would not have an economy based on consumerism and waste, and destroying foreign nations and murdering the people in them for oil to keep it's economy afloat and it's dollar worth something.

 

[junkenstien]

Ya know I generally like people that are the same all the time but in your case I just can’t.Have read a lot of the old axe threads on here and do appreciate the time you fellas take sharing your thoughts and experiences but you always act a fool and that shits horrible,chainsaws not the axe industry moving to Mexico killed what we love palm sanders and power tools and murder is what that man and everyone who ascribes to his backward religion would do to you if they could.

 

[gben]

Nice Flint Edge Michigan! and LOVE the handle!! What is the total length of the handle? looks like you have plenty of tongue should you need to rehang/seat it down lower if you ever need to. Super!

Flint, Just for you I trod out to the barn this morning and put a tape on it and the entire axe was 34" overall in length. I measured a half-dozen other single-bit axes that were handy and they were all 34" to 36" overall, so it is right in the ballpark.

 

[gben]

The other one went down yesterday morn. It fell within five degrees of where I aimed it. About ten inches at the cut and forty-foot tall. Hit the ground hard.