Handle for my Plumb Claw Hatchet

[I.N.F.K]

So I recently picked this up at a local antique store, I fixed a regular hatchet handle to it of decent quality and I hate it. I would really like simple straight handle for it but I have no clue what tool handle to use that would require the least amount of modifications. I guess a good company to buy from would be the House Handle Company, but when it comes to axes I don't know all that much. Any ideas would be helpful.

 

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Rigger's axe handle will fit it. I've found good ones at my local Do-It-Best.

 

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And BTW, that's a very fine hatchet.

 

[I.N.F.K]

Rigger's axe handle will fit it. I've found good ones at my local Do-It-Best.

Thanks but, i'm talking about a competley straight handle. I don't know why but I can't get over the looks of those style handles. I believe that a beefy hatchet like this Plumb is in need of a beefy handle, plus I have beefy hands.

And BTW, that's a very fine hatchet.

What's amazing is that that's almost the exact condition I found it in, all that was wrong is that someone sprayed or painted it with laquer. Well and some moron used a hammer on the head when attaching the handle, idiot. But it seems to be okay

 

[300Six]

At least you already know what you don't like for a handle! Straight handles are much easier to come by than hatchet handles and if worse comes to worse you can always try making your own. Start off with a fitted 'club' and keep rasping and whittling away until you get exactly what you want. I did this 25 years ago with a home-sawn gun stock and over the course of a year of shooting, whittling and sanding every weekend that sucker fit me like a glove.

 

[I.N.F.K]

At least you already know what you don't like for a handle! Straight handles are much easier to come by than hatchet handles and if worse comes to worse you can always try making your own. Start off with a fitted 'club' and keep rasping and whittling away until you get exactly what you want. I did this 25 years ago with a home-sawn gun stock and over the course of a year of shooting, whittling and sanding every weekend that sucker fit me like a glove.

I recently had an idea to buy a straight handle for like a pickaxe and carving it down with a dremel equipped with a wood removal wheel