Help with Axe Find

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Samb1619

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Hello all, this is my first post on this forum and to be honest i do not know much about axes/hatchets. I was given a plumb victory hammer when i was younger, gift from my grandfather and liked it lot. Fast forward to today and i picked up a Plumb double bit axe at a yard sale and was also given another single bit plumb axe. I would love any information anyone can provide, what are these axes used for, best way to clean them, how old they might be? Anything like that would be appreciated. It wont let me post attachments, i assume i have to reach a certain post count before the forum allows me to. Any other way to show pictures of these axes? Thanks
http://s1026.photobucket.com/user/Samb1619/media/IMG_7265_zpsslhb8sj8.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0

http://s1026.photobucket.com/user/Samb1619/media/IMG_7257_zpsgvyh87ha.jpg.html?sort=3&o=3

http://s1026.photobucket.com/user/Samb1619/media/IMG_7262_zpsdhg3qqe1.jpg.html?sort=3&o=2

http://s1026.photobucket.com/user/Samb1619/media/IMG_7263_zpsjjinca50.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1


Edited to include Axe images from Photobucket
 
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One way to do it is to upload the photos to a free hosting site like Photobucket, then copy the URL for the photo, then past the URL into the forum reply box using the Insert Image icon.
 
Hello Steve Tall, thank you for that advice. I created a photo bucket and added the images to the account. I hope everyone can access the images easily.
 
If you're looking at your photo at photobucket, you can click at the box to the right labeled "IMG" which will copy the URL code, and then you can paste (Ctrl V) it right into the forum reply, like I am doing now:

 
With regard to Plumbs we need to see the eye ends of the axes. Providing the handles are original a circular steel wedge with screwdriver slot in it indicates mid 20's- mid 40's manufacture and epoxy-filled hangs are post 1955.
 
Here are the pictures from the eye end of the axe, i hope this helps. Based on the shape of the axes what are their primary purposes? The hand held axe just seems different to me, in my ignorant opinion when i see the short plumb i would think it belongs on a longer handle.
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Steve Tall said:
If you're looking at your photo at photobucket, you can click at the box to the right labeled "IMG" which will copy the URL code, and then you can paste (Ctrl V) it right into the forum reply, like I am doing now:

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Much appreciated! I have done so with my new reply showing the eye of the axes.
 
Certainly both look to be pre 1955 because the epoxy-filled eye versions (post 55) were a sonovagun to rehaft. Wine-coloured handles are proprietary to Plumb. Both of these definitely need to be properly re-wedged! Double bit axes were popular out west and the other is a cedar pattern hatchet without a hardened poll (such as some of them (Boy Scout versions?) do.
 
They've both been re-hafted so there's no telling the dates. You have a cedar pattern hatchet that would have likely come with a curved haft originally. The other is a pretty standard Plumb double bit. Both are very good axes in nice shape and well worth re-hafting and sharpening.

Congrats!
 
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