It followed me home (Part 2)

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It has finally arrived!! The good old Gränsfors Bruk Carpenters Axe, in very good condition too. Will remove the wedge and put the head in vinegar over night, also scrape the handle. More pictures coming tomorrow... Boy, do I feel like a child on christmas... :D


Edit: LOL, couldn't contain myself. Scraped the handle clean with a piece of glass, then coated it with BLO. I believe this is made of birch, what do you think?

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Glass is a good choice.
I believe you are right about the birch. I can usually spot birch because many inexpensive fire arms will be birch stocked.
 
Axe Master '94 said:
I've done a little bit with welding cracks, and that seems like about the most deserving candidate I've seen! It's definitely worth a shot- I can give some pointers or could do it for you if you sent it over my way. The best way I know of is to radiac the crack down 3/4 of the way (or maybe even a little more) through the steel, weld it up, and grind it flush.
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Wow, that's a generous offer...thanks! Let me make sure there's no China or India stamp under the rust before I decide...just to make sure. :)
 
garry3 said:
Those really are not that hard to repair. It takes a little effort so if you have plenty of axes it might not be worth it to you.
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Yeah agreed...I'm going to clean it up a little and make sure there aren't any other surprises. We shall see.
 
I missed AxeMasters post. Can't beat that. What he describes is what I have done but had a friend do the welding. Its not real apparent that it has been welded and I don't think it will ever break again.
 
Here is a stamp that I have not seen before. Its on a 5lb Plumb rafting axe. The opposite side is stamped MAGMA. It looks to be well done and original to the head but maybe not.
Any way it seems to be appropriate for the axe.

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This is the first half of what followed me home today. Some REALLY good stuff. I haven't seen a 3lb ballpien before.


 
And part 2. Mostly Buck Brothers and Marples. Also a Greenlee drawknife, Plumb hatchet head and how about the hand held adze!


 
Nice haul JB, That Greenlee Draw knife looks like my favorite model. I think I might own a Greenlee slick also, really like them both.
 
It was a long day of picking. Did OK and a few more will probably come my way tomorrow. Nothing really great but a few decent heads. I usually do better with the loose rusty ones but only a couple winners with them, I will still trust my instincts and buy them all day long at $5 or less apiece. Several of them would have been real good just to much rust at the wrong place. The painted blue one turned out to be broke.

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garry3 said:
It was a long day of picking. Did OK and a few more will probably come my way tomorrow. Nothing really great but a few decent heads. I usually do better with the loose rusty ones but only a couple winners with them, I will still trust my instincts and buy them all day long at $5 or less apiece. Several of them would have been real good just to much rust at the wrong place. The painted blue one turned out to be broke.

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I picked up a Greenlee slick last weekend!

I like the axe under the one mounted upside down.
 
garry3 said:
It was a long day of picking. Did OK and a few more will probably come my way tomorrow. Nothing really great but a few decent heads. I usually do better with the loose rusty ones but only a couple winners with them, I will still trust my instincts and buy them all day long at $5 or less apiece. Several of them would have been real good just to much rust at the wrong place. The painted blue one turned out to be broke.
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I'm amazed at all the double bits you're finding. In my travels and poking through flea markets and garage sales etc around here over the past 30 years I've never come across one. Must be a regional thing. Choppers in the Ottawa Valley mustn't have wanted auxiliary blades pointed in their faces while they were busy.
 
300Six said:
I'm amazed at all the double bits you're finding. In my travels and poking through flea markets and garage sales etc around here over the past 30 years I've never come across one. Must be a regional thing. Choppers in the Ottawa Valley mustn't have wanted auxiliary blades pointed in their faces while they were busy.
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I find them, but it's maybe 1 out of 50. They are just not an Eastern thing.
 
JB is right about the double bits, its got to be a regional thing. I've seen 100s of axes while out picking, but I've only seen a handful of double bits, and all but one of them were all beat to death.
 
jblyttle said:
I picked up a Greenlee slick last weekend!

I like the axe under the one mounted upside down.
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That's a Sator Banko Sweden. A couple of the rusted DBL bits where oval label Kelly's but unfortunately the rust got to the stamps. The very bottom loose DBL bit has some age and I don't have a makers mark yet. It might be an Oakland made, I am keeping my fingers crossed. I don't come across them often out here. The dark little hatchet at the bottom is a mini, it has just part of a stamp visible it says Banko. There is a Northern King single bit in there also and I can't remember who made them. Maybe some one here knows?
 
Jay Mulcahy said:
JB is right about the double bits, its got to be a regional thing. I've seen 100s of axes while out picking, but I've only seen a handful of double bits, and all but one of them were all beat to death.
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I drool over the short handle Connecticut's you guys find. Just not something I see very often.
And the double bits are quite common out here.
 
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