Thanks Square, I'm lucky that I could save it from the smelter mostly found down here are Michigan's and I'm guessing that it's ether a Jersey or Connecticut and my first, let alone a Mann Gold Bond and still seems to have a lot of life still in it 3# 5oz.
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Thanks Square, I'm lucky that I could save it from the smelter mostly found down here are Michigan's and I'm guessing that it's ether a Jersey or Connecticut and my first, let alone a Mann Gold Bond and still seems to have a lot of life still in it 3# 5oz.
Agent thanks for the tutorial with pics, me thinks it would be best to try a hatchet handle first and just make a strait haft for the Gold Bond first. Mostly everything I have is for my personal use and collection.
But again thanks for the Cliff Notes.
Rick
But again thanks for the Cliff Notes.
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Yesterday I was working with a group of volunteers to clear land for a new disc golf course. One of the trees we took out was a small black locust. Naturally I brought a few staves home.
The stave on the right in the first photo is pretty straight and might make a decent haft. The center stave will likely be cut in half for hatchet handles. The one on the left might be broad axe haft material. We'll see what they look like in a year. I sprayed the ends with a thick coat of black enamel (what I had on hand) to help prevent checking during the drying process.
The stave on the right in the first photo is pretty straight and might make a decent haft. The center stave will likely be cut in half for hatchet handles. The one on the left might be broad axe haft material. We'll see what they look like in a year. I sprayed the ends with a thick coat of black enamel (what I had on hand) to help prevent checking during the drying process.
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I don't have experience with locust either. I've had good luck drying elm this way but elm is so split resistant to begin with.
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There were some DIAMOND EDGE axes from Shapleigh with the FILO DE DIAMANTE stamp.
"For cutting woods in tropical countries a very fine specially tempered axe is necessary. It is this kind of Axe that the Shapleigh Hardware Co., St Lois, Mo., have brought out under the name of the "Diamond Edge" Iron-Wood. The blade is made of crucible steel and welded to a soft steel body. The eyes are punched from solid steel bar stock and will not stretch or break. The eyes are tapered from the outer to the inner opening to hold the handle firmly and prevent slipping."
from Hardware Dealers' Magazine, August, 1913, page 394
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That little hatchet is awesome 👍
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I got these today, the Snow & Nealley Pulaski is one of the nicer axes that I have come across in a while.
Like those little ball peens 👍
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I got these today, the Snow & Nealley Pulaski is one of the nicer axes that I have come across in a while.
Don't see those around. Very cool.
I'm surprised the eye is so close to the adze end - or maybe its just the hang - wide shoulder.
The weird hammer (need help with this)
Old style hammer, no stamp, can anyone come up with an approximate date
Plumb octagon w/screw wedge all original
Vaughn with eye ridges 3 1/2#
Falls City Charleston W. VA w/phantom bevels 4#5.2oz
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I don't think there's much you can do except seal the ends.
Though Robert Hardy in his Longbow: a Social and Military History says something about keeping your bow-staves under water in a pond for a year or more.