First hatchet hang

Looks good! You may want to set it a little lower on the shoulder. That’s me just over analyzing though. Great job for your first hang!!!
 
I agree on deeper set but worried about a split. This is a warmup for my Hults Bruk rehang. I'm a fan of 100% tung oil or food grade flax seed. Not sure which just yet.
 
cruisaire said:
I agree on deeper set but worried about a split. This is a warmup for my Hults Bruk rehang. I'm a fan of 100% tung oil or food grade flax seed. Not sure which just yet.
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That is pretty good. I would just take it a step further.
On most hafts I work both ends. That is the shoulder as well as the eye. Mostly because hafts are to big, but it also allows me to set the head wherever I want on the haft with in reason to adjust the length.
What I am trying to say is I will move the shoulder up by reducing it. That is what I would do there. The shoulder is over sized anyway. It will come out closer to this if you move that shoulder up. And the shoulder will be smaller than the head and have less chance of getting damaged like it should be in my opinion.
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Not bad.
Maybe hang a little closer to the shoulder and leave some excess out the top next time, but other than that the overall eye fit looks way better than my first hang.
 
You did your homework on this and were utmost careful in carrying it out. Well done! Over the long run "practice does make perfect".
Something that really bugs me about store bought handles is the way at which the tongues are oftentimes angled. If it's an immediate (or almost) fit on to the head (which every novice (and even experienced) "axe-person" (this is the 'new age ain't it?), either expects or prays for) there won't be enough wood left to alter ('open' or 'close') the hang. Your's is more 'open' than I would have preferred and/but then again it may well suit your purposes.
But, once you get on to the 'big boys' (full size heads that require long handles) angles become that much more difficult to 'whittle away' to your advantage.
 
300Six said:
You did your homework on this and were utmost careful in carrying it out. Well done! Over the long run "practice does make perfect".
Something that really bugs me about store bought handles is the way at which the tongues are oftentimes angled. If it's an immediate (or almost) fit on to the head (which every novice (and even experienced) "axe-person" (this is the 'new age ain't it?), either expects or prays for) there won't be enough wood left to alter ('open' or 'close') the hang. Your's is more 'open' than I would have preferred and/but then again it may well suit your purposes.
But, once you get on to the 'big boys' (full size heads that require long handles) angles become that much more difficult to 'whittle away' to your advantage.
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Yes, practice indeed! I research, read, research, and then read again.
 
It's an exceptional hang for a first hatchet hang. You 2nd and 3rd images show how carefully you fit the haft to the eye and left no shelf below. You left the haft proud enough that expansion should lock in on permanently.

Your first image shows a significant amount of runout in the wood grain. This would be a serious problem on a full size axe but will likely be OK on a hatchet. I wouldn't swing it with wild abandon.
 
You know I'm green at this, I've already declared that. It's amazing to me, how much you all can find to critique...in a hang job.
I am not criticizing, Just making an observation.
There's a whole lot to this.
 
Kootaga13 said:
You know I'm green at this, I've already declared that. It's amazing to me, how much you all can find to critique...in a hang job.
I am not criticizing, Just making an observation.
There's a whole lot to this.
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Yes there is. And most of us only begin to find out long after (more often; shortly after) the implement has been put in service. And folks that actually swung these things for a living eons ago rarely put their thoughts about this subject on paper.
 
Hard to believe how hard it is to get decent handles even for hatchets,have been looking for boys axe and hatchet handles for a couple of weeks and found none.Stopped tonight and they just got hatchet handles, out of the 15 or so they had one was good and one was ok on a 14 inch piece of wood.
 
300Six said:
Yes there is. And most of us only begin to find out long after (more often; shortly after) the implement has been put in service. And folks that actually swung these things for a living eons ago rarely put their thoughts about this subject on paper.
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Yes, and they prolly either learned the hard way or from their father or grandfather.
 
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