It followed me home (Part 2)

[aikonen]

Lieblad's clue led to a website giving the history of NORA knives, which were surprisingly made in Norway (at Trondheim), not Sweden. The company A/S Knivfabriken NORA existed from 1915 to 1920. (There was also a mention of some Chinese-made knockoffs of the Mora 670, with the blade marked "Nora Sweden", being sold in 2007.)

There was no mention of anything like axes being made at the NORA knife factory, so my money is still on Hults Bruk as being the maker of the "NORA YXAN" labelled axe.

Information and photos from Knivprat fra Per Thoresen, http://kniver.blogspot.com/2012_01_01_archive.html.

This forum never disappoints, I find it unbelievable how you guys can find so much information. Many thanks for this interesting piece of information. I bet my money on H-B too.

 

[aikonen]

A nice little hatchet from Hults Bruk, the handle drank almost a liter of BLO, it must have been thirsty!

 

[jblyttle]

 

[Hickory n steel]

Is it just me or does that hatchet look a little small ?
The handle looks awesome, I hope it's reusable .

 

[jblyttle]

 

[300Six]

Gotta hand it to you jb. You routinely manage to come up with desirable loot but your garage must be filling up over the rafters with unsold 'junk'. What's the wife got to say about all this?

 

[Able_walker]

Fresh from the local vintage shop...I figure the guy who runs it is a picker of some sort. They wanted $12.00 I gave them a $10.00 bill. Smart Manufacturing Brockville Ontario...apparently their axes are quite sought after.I'll do the wire wheel and WD-40 to it..the handle is a little dry but pretty good.Rock Pick rounded point.
http://yesteryearstools.com/Yesteryears Tools/Smart Mfg. Co..html

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[Slim278]

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[jblyttle]

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Good stuff, I like the Flint Edge. Also, although they are not worth much, I have a thing for those carbon steel butcher knives.

 

[Slim278]

Good stuff, I like the Flint Edge. Also, although they are not worth much, I have a thing for those carbon steel butcher knives.

The Flint Edge is the prize. The bottom knife is a Case XX.

 

[Square_peg]

Fresh from the local vintage shop...I figure the guy who runs it is a picker of some sort. They wanted $12.00 I gave them a $10.00 bill. Smart Manufacturing Brockville Ontario...apparently their axes are quite sought after.I'll do the wire wheel and WD-40 to it..the handle is a little dry but pretty good.Rock Pick rounded point.
http://yesteryearstools.com/Yesteryears Tools/Smart Mfg. Co..html

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Very nice tool. You could redraw that point as good as new with localized heat from a rosebud or induction forge. Loose no metal that way.

 

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Those Ontario Knife 1095 knives are a great value for a very good knife. And they're still being made. I always grab them when I find them well-priced.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Those Ontario Knife 1095 knives are a great value for a very good knife. And they're still being made. I always grab them when I find them well-priced.

The old hickory's definitely are great, and the best part is that all you really need to do is carefully pop the scales off with a putty knife and epoxy them back on and make a sheath and you've got a great woodcraft or hunting knife. . The old ones can definitely be had for cheaper, but the new ones are exactly the same and are cheap enough if you can't find any old ones ( all I ever find in my area is Chinese stainless and maybe Flint edge stainless every once in a while )

 

[Able_walker]

Very nice tool. You could redraw that point as good as new with localized heat from a rosebud or induction forge. Loose no metal that way.

Thanks....Yeah I wasn't too sure how pointy the pick end was supposed to be... some online are very pointy and others are
a little rounded.Thanks for the suggestion. I'll leave it like it is for now but it's good to know it's fairly straight forward to get it back
to original.

 

[Square_peg]

Couple new ones. First is a masting axe that I bought as a no-name. It just looked to clean to pass up. Size is 10-7/8" x 6-13/16".

A previous owner stamped a 'D' in it with a center punch.

Here it is cleaned up. Those marks that look like pitting are some remnant from the forging process. They are consistent on both sides of the axe.

What struck my interest in this axe was just how little use and abuse it seems to have had, plus how little pitting it had.

Profile, long thin bit.

The surprise? On cleaning I found this stamp.

Faint but unmistakable. It's an L. & I.J. White. Good stuff and uncommon.

Oh, the other new one, Warren Sager double bit. It cleaned up well. Hasn't been sharpened much.

 

[Steve Tall]

The L.&I.J. White catalog (listed from 1905) has similar "Ship Axes" shown on page 31 (link below).

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http://toolemera.com/catpdf/lijwhite1905Cat.pdf

From their catalog....

 

[jblyttle]

Faint but unmistakable. It's an L. & I.J. White. Good stuff and uncommon.

Nice, I have a couple cleavers made by them. That head IS clean. I have a long one like that, but mine is offset and not quite as clean.

 

[phantomknives]

i would ask if i could buy one, but i dont have a membership but does anybody know a reliable source of buying sagers?

 

[Slim278]

This follower me home today for 5 bucks.

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Any info someone has on this would be appreciated.
Enjoy

 

[Lieblad]

Any info someone has on this would be appreciated.
Enjoy

Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade. It's just a long handle, kind of like an axe handle. With a long blade on it shaped kinda like a bannaner. Mhmmm.
Sharp on one edge, and dull on the other. Mhmmm.
It's what the highway boys use to cut down weeds and whatnot...