It followed me home (Part 2)

Agent_H said:
Ummm... awesome! After ogling 300Six's Walters' today maybe I'm biased but that is great.

Is the froe wedged? It has nice lines.

Please share any green wood working tips, tricks, chips, or pics :thumbup:
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The handle is supposed to be a slip on, but it's too loose because it's round and the socket itself isn't. My neighbor just cut down a big sugar maple so I'll find a nice piece to split out and make a new one.

As for wood working tips, the biggest thing to remember is if you're married a couple of wooden spoons or bowls showing up in the kitchen forgives a lot of tool purchases. ;)
 
Went to my old boss's house today and he pulled out this Estwing axe hammer that i'd lost during my apprenticeship about 5 years ago.
No before pics but it was just rusty and had no edge on the axe.
Really happy to see this old girl back ive put in thousands of nails with it and he'd used it for 15 years before i got it, The wear on the hammer shows it to.
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Canadian Mojo said:
I picked this guy up at the Tools of the Trade show on Sunday. A Walters hatchet with it's original handle.

I really wasn't looking for a hatchet but it had to follow me home so it could be reunited with its little brother:


This guy was on the list of tools I was looking for. I'm falling deeper into the rabbit hole of my green woodworking hobby and I've been interested in trying out a froe for a while.:o
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Nice find. It looks like a past user used a metal tool to strike it, you may want to file off those ridges on top to keep it from dragging in the wood on the way down.
 
Unless this is a retrofit from a later date (not likely), the Plumb 'take up screw' in the Boy Scout hatchet dates the piece between 1922 and 1943. It should be easy enough to remove so it can be cleaned up, oiled and then twisted back in.

I like those handles. The maker was frugal about milling curves, which makes for an inherently more durable handle.
 
alright, took me long enough but i have picutres from last sunday's haul. $21, a lot of the haul were gifts. left to right: 8 pound K-head on a handle i got at the flea market. the broken ear flint edge, i fixed it and got a better picture of it. 6" single cut file. two rasps and ony what i can assume to be a rasp mark remover, it's all its good for. a few bits, the estwing ford, cuts really good, i was surprised. then my council tool 10 pound on a old double bit handle i had laying around. there's the paper label kelly perfect i'v been talking about and last but not least, grandpa's OX, the blade's a little bent but nothing that cant be fixed. also the pictures upside down.
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300Six said:
Unless this is a retrofit from a later date (not likely), the Plumb 'take up screw' in the Boy Scout hatchet dates the piece between 1922 and 1943. It should be easy enough to remove so it can be cleaned up, oiled and then twisted back in.

I like those handles. The maker was frugal about milling curves, which makes for an inherently more durable handle.
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Thanks for the info. I was trying to determine what era it was from. I was guessing 40's. Does the stamp "Genuine Plumb" give it a date as well? Or more so just the "take up screw?"
 
andrewsdesign83 said:
Thanks for the info. I was trying to determine what era it was from. I was guessing 40's. Does the stamp "Genuine Plumb" give it a date as well? Or more so just the "take up screw?"
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No one on here has solved nor pin-pointed the hatch-line PLUMB logo but 'genuine' script added seems to be from later on. Before 1919 the framed Plumb logo didn't even exist and the stamp featured an anchor. The handle on your's is modern looking (compared to real oldies) so your guess of late 30s early 40s is probably pretty good. There has been mention on here of Plumb using screw wedges on some tools beyond the general 1943 cutoff date but the industry switch over to epoxy hangs began in 1955 and for sure no screw wedges would have survived into that era.
 
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