It followed me home (Part 2)

A couple files I found at Swift Tool this afternoon. 14" Sanvik multi-cut and a 12" Simonds double cut (China :( ). I have high hopes for the Sanvik. The Chinese Simonds I've used haven't been terrible - better than a Mexican Nicholson.

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I only put this here because I hope it will cut out some beautiful handle blanks one day. I need to order a little under $200 in parts from Rikon and it will be good as new! Plus the $25 in gas to pick it up and two hours in labor getting it home I’d say I did good! It is an 18” bandsaw. I was told it is about 7 years old.
 

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HB.Hewing by Agent Hierarchy

A little wear and what I think is the original handle. The handle is very thin and sweet in hand but there is a glue repair on the bit side of the shoulder. The piece is well-attached but is just that- attached. The edges on the repair are distracting.

Fill the space, scrape it flush around the edges, or set aside the handle and rehang it with new wood/handle?
 
Cool!

Have you identified the label?

If the crack is soundly glued, as you indicate, then I'd just sand it smooth and refinish it. Might be easier if you separated it from the axe.
 
Square_peg said:
Cool!

Have you identified the label?

If the crack is soundly glued, as you indicate, then I'd just sand it smooth and refinish it. Might be easier if you separated it from the axe.
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Not exactly but it looks closest to the JSB Best Quality Swedish Steel on the right side in this picture from Traditional-tools:
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The handle knocked out intact with a little force. :thumbsup:
 
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Not exactly but it looks closest to the JSB Best Quality Swedish Steel on the right side in this picture from Traditional-tools:
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The handled knocked out intact with a little force. :thumbsup:
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I am with you on the sticker label match up.
Excellent comparative research :cool::thumbsup:

Oh what a feeling to have had the handle knock out solid for you:thumbsup::thumbsup:
 
Agent_H said:
Not exactly but it looks closest to the JSB Best Quality Swedish Steel on the right side in this picture from Traditional-tools:
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The handled knocked out intact with a little force. :thumbsup:
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Wow and thank you very much for this Agent-H! Wonderful (and telling) set of jobber decals. With all the Canadian retail addresses on them (Glover Sales of Ottawa (???), included) it's no GD wonder Welland-Vale, of St Catherines, and Walters, of Hull, were caused to 'close up shop'. I am a living witness because my money-conscious father chose an import Swede (2/3's the price of domestic-made at a time when American stuff wasn't (tariffs, import duties/restrictions?) even available north of the 49th parallel when he bought me my first axe at Beaver Lumber on Bank Street in Ottawa in 1961. So here I am many decades later discovering that SANDVIK (which is the stamp on it) never even made axe heads themselves but 'farmed them out'. Dad was a Dutch WWII survivor well aware of European quality/craftsmanship who attained P. Eng accreditation and would have understood that price was not necessarily a reflection of quality, and/but, $10 was infinitely more appealing than having to 'fork over' $15 in order to buy 'homegrown'.
 
Today's finds.... (yard sales, swap meet, thrift).

-Shovel... heat treated USA B-91 , U-D. $2.00
-Nicholson USA...#1 (with handle).... $5.00
-Unknown Mason's chipping hammer with pick/chisel
(imprint "Commando")... $1.50
-Wagner Ware #7 drip drop roaster (1920's)... $22.00

and, the best !...
Fayette R. Plumb 4 lb. cutters hammer...late 1800's. $1.50.
(barely visible FRP ships anchor).

late edit ...forgot...unmarked cold chisel..$1.50

Charles
https://imgur.com/a/IymB3rM
 


This lot was from Saturday. Late 70s Stanley boys axe the a Collins brush hook. Then some other odds and ends.



Here is an older Woodslasher (red paint and eye ridges) very convex and nice and thin! Thanks for looking!

I think this boys axe handle will fit very nice on a Flint Edge boys ax I recently posted. Then I can get a replacement handle for the Stanley!
 
Brian Rust said:


This lot was from Saturday. Late 70s Stanley boys axe the a Collins brush hook. Then some other odds and ends.



Here is an older Woodslasher (red paint and eye ridges) very convex and nice and thin! Thanks for looking!

I think this boys axe handle will fit very nice on a Flint Edge boys ax I recently posted. Then I can get a replacement handle for the Stanley!
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That's a great handle for a Stanley. I like that it is fairly straight.

Those scissors are worth next to nothing for resale, but they are great quality tools. Watch Paul Sellers video on sharpening them and use them for the rest of your life. I grab vintage scissors whenever they are in good shape and a buck or two. I have a large pair that I use for cutting cardboard for packing/shipping.
 
Thank you sir yes I love that handle. It has a nice swell also! And I have been looking for a good pair for siccors for a while so I was happy to get those!
 
Brian Rust said:
Thank you sir yes I love that handle. It has a nice swell also! And I have been looking for a good pair for siccors for a while so I was happy to get those!
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That's crazy too, because it's hard to find a good pair of scissors new.
I guess most people don't realize that sharpening scissors isn't exactly a complex operation.
 
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