It followed me home (Part 2)

Agent_H said:
Square_peg certainly can pick them… very cool finds.

JB- you come across stuff that predates most of what is out there to find but that Craftsman is really interesting in itself.

This is that 5lb M5 head that I thought might have a hardened poll. Being as I don’t like vinegarized steel that much, I only left it in there for about 3 hours and wiped it off. Leaving it in there to strip everything off might give a better contrast. Does the poll look more like the bit than the cheeks and eye?
What is your take on this picture? – lighting is bad for sure.




It is definitely crude compared to others.
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Tough to say. It looks like a constructor/miner axe head, you can always try the old file test.
 
rjdankert said:
Related item for the Eyeless pick:
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Bob
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I saw that earlier and passed on it. I only paid $5 for the pick. But then I thought, 'what the hell, they belong together' and went back and bought it. I doubt I'll ever see another and it adds value to the pick.
 
JB looks like you got a bunch of Greenlee chisels, I pick them up whenever they show up. A few months ago I looked up the company's history and was amazed at how it progressed through the years.

Anvils are harder than axes to find in SoCal, great looking bunch of stuff come home with all the time.
 
It sets the whole straight section of the handle along the same axle, so if you pinch and suspend it at different points along that length it doesn't pivot at all. Actually makes a perfect example of the principle because if you put it in the other way it takes the handle fully off-axis and you can clearly see how changing suspension points then causes it to pivot to bring the new axle into alignment.
 
Yup! Looks to have the original black paint on the blade too. It looks to have been hardly used, overall. A shame someone put a hole in the lovely handle to hang it as a decorator piece, but I'll dowel that up. Really a perfect example of proper offsetting.
 
FortyTwoBlades said:
Yup! Looks to have the original black paint on the blade too. It looks to have been hardly used, overall. A shame someone put a hole in the lovely handle to hang it as a decorator piece, but I'll dowel that up. Really a perfect example of proper offsetting.
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We all love and respect these tools, but you seem to be the local idiot savant (meant with respect) when it comes to use/physics/angles. I'm sure that his tool has found it's proper home.
 
Hahaha--after I get done with the series of diagrams I'm working on right now for scythes I'll be doing some for axes and then for knives. It's just funny that a lot of the principles involved were clearly understood at at least the gut level by those designing and making hand tools of all sorts, but they're rarely discussed in either period or modern sources--and when they are it's usually with only a partial understanding or incomplete description of the dynamics at work. Time to fix that. :D
 
I really like the blackening job on the handle (bottom axe), I'm going to do it on my next one. Did you oil it first or after, both?
 
DGF78 said:
I really like the blackening job on the handle (bottom axe), I'm going to do it on my next one. Did you oil it first or after, both?
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If you are referring to my post, that's just a old dry handle, not treatment of any kind. I'm actually going to cut it off, it's not worth saving.
 
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