It followed me home (Part 2)

[Square_peg]

Not home yet but I recently purchased this Warren pulaski along with a Warren double bit and a Warren Puget Sound falling axe. I like Warren, good stuff made for industry. I've never seen a Warren pulaski before so that was my main interest. It's in decent shape and the hoe looks tough. Some of the new pulaskis are whimpy where the hoe meets the eye. It's not uncommon to see new ones bent there.

 

[Agent_H]

Not home yet but I recently purchased this Warren pulaski along with a Warren double bit and a Warren Puget Sound falling axe. I like Warren, good stuff made for industry. I've never seen a Warren pulaski before so that was my main interest. It's in decent shape and the hoe looks tough. Some of the new pulaskis are whimpy where the hoe meets the eye. It's not uncommon to see new ones bent there.

I like Warren tools as well.
This little Warren cruiser isn't something I see often but I sure wish someone hadn't knocked the eye on it:

It doesn't hinder the hang but it makes me shake my head a little every time I pick it up.

 

[Yankee Josh]

I like Warren tools as well.
This little Warren cruiser isn't something I see often but I sure wish someone hadn't knocked the eye on it:

It doesn't hinder the hang but it makes me shake my head a little every time I pick it up.

That's a really nice little cruiser! Beautiful little axe. I know what you mean about the eye. I have many that are like that and I find it hard to believe people are that lazy that they can't go get a hammer... At least with that axe you've got it didn't obscure the stamp.

 

[Agent_H]

I’ve never tried to fix that sort of issue with a double bit.

 

[Miller '72]

Nice, what kind of Connie is it?

3.75lb Mann Knot Klipper of original 27.5" handle.

If he's not in for it, and it's not claimed otherwise, Is like to throw my hat in the ring. I have not a Knot Klipper, and that would be *the* way to start.

Let’s arm wrestle lol

I am very fortunate to get the first message fired off

I think it went something like...I NEED IT...HERE IS MY FIRST BORN...THANK YOU

This is a most beautiful and welcome addition.

JB I am in awe of your hunting and gathering skills, and greatly appreciate todays delivery!



We will call him Brad, the dad of my sons friend today, had a glimpse in my garage...it was a quiet pick up after that. My son came out and said, ya...my dads into axes lol!

 

[Fmont]

Wow! It really is a beauty!!!!

 

[Agent_H]

Brad...Miller!

Miller '72 , You had competition for that one - it’s a beautiful axe. I was picturing JB having to dial up his email spam filter that evening!

I’m actually ok because it was you that got it.

You forced me to buy a different axe and for that I suppose I will forgive you

 

[Fmont]

I wound up getting something from him the next day on eBay and I *just* picked it up at the door and opened it. After i posted re Miller!

This little cutie:

 

[Fmont]

I also received this earlier than expected. It was described as a kitchen axe, which is off course ludicrous. It appears to have been a full sized broad axe that was re-steeled. Just my suspicion given the size of the poll and eye. I thought @jake pogg might be interested in the pics. The bit is 7.75" wide, weight about 3.75lbs. Twenty five bucks +shipping and nobody else bid on it, I thought it a worthwhile curio that may see some use if the forge weld is deemed to be fit.

I'm sorry if the pics are small and bad, it seems BF has lowered their tolerance for hosting images. Unfortunate. It wasn't generous to begin with.



I'm going to take a file to it and see if those voids in the lamination are from corrosion. If anybody knows definitively what it is please do share! Perhaps a butcher's axe?

Eta: to clarify, by the voids I'm taking a file to I mean on the cutting edge where the iron body and bit meet, seen in first photo

 

[Fmont]

I guess if it was a butcher axe I don't understand the buildup of iron behind the bit.

 

[jblyttle]

I think it went something like...I NEED IT...HERE IS MY FIRST BORN...THANK YOU

To clarify, I don't take children. I have enough.

 

[Miller '72]

To clarify, I don't take children. I have enough.

Now you do

Disclaimer for exaggeration of post...I did not offer, trade or sell my first born.

I was only kidding honey

 

[Fmont]

Visa, MasterCard, First Borns, but not Discover lol

 

[Miller '72]

Visa, MasterCard, First Borns, but not Discover lol

No travelers checks, but American Express...I never leave home without it.

 

[Agent_H]

I also received this earlier than expected. It was described as a kitchen axe, which is off course ludicrous. It appears to have been a full sized broad axe that was re-steeled. Just my suspicion given the size of the poll and eye. I thought @jake pogg might be interested in the pics. The bit is 7.75" wide, weight about 3.75lbs. Twenty five bucks +shipping and nobody else bid on it, I thought it a worthwhile curio that may see some use if the forge weld is deemed to be fit.

I'm sorry if the pics are small and bad, it seems BF has lowered their tolerance for hosting images. Unfortunate. It wasn't generous to begin with.

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I'm going to take a file to it and see if those voids in the lamination are from corrosion. If anybody knows definitively what it is please do share! Perhaps a butcher's axe?

Eta: to clarify, by the voids I'm taking a file to I mean on the cutting edge where the iron body and bit meet, seen in first photo

I've never seen anything quite like that.

If I am to make some guesses, please don't take disrespect.
1. It looks like a Jersey pattern axe got forged up, the bit spread in a more fanning arc, one side of the eye made flat, the other relieved for a handle, and a steel laminate attached to it.
2. Maybe it was a medium-sized American hewing axe pattern (top lug removed) at the end of its life that was blacksmithed back into shape with a steel laminate,
3. An original pattern that might be quite old but not produced in large numbers.

I think it's awesome you scored it, if for nothing else, to share with us here.
A shot of the eye-down would help too. If it's solid then a reasonably flat back and a good cutting edge would make it cut as well as most things recognized as a side/broad axe.
Very cool regardless.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Mam yo guys are killing me.
You're receiving all this awesome stuff and meanwhile my Woodslasher boys axe is stuck in San Francisco for some reason when it was supposed to arrive on Tuesday
I'll have it soon enough ( it's never really soon enough now is it ? ) and I'm sure it's worth the wait.

 

[Miller '72]

I thought @jake pogg might be interested in the pics. The bit is 7.75" wide, weight about 3.75lbs. Twenty five bucks +shipping

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What a great score and KUDOS to you sir for taking it in to resurrect for possible use and to share with us.

I've never seen anything quite like that.

If I am to make some guesses, please don't take disrespect.
1. It looks like a Jersey pattern axe got forged up, the bit spread in a more fanning arc, one side of the eye made flat, the other relieved for a handle, and a steel laminate attached to it.
2. Maybe it was a medium-sized American hewing axe pattern (top lug removed) at the end of its life that was blacksmithed back into shape with a steel laminate,
3. An original pattern that might be quite old but not produced in large numbers.

I think it's awesome you scored it, if for nothing else, to share with us here.
A shot of the eye-down would help too. If it's solid then a reasonably flat back and a good cutting edge would make it cut as well as most things recognized as a side/broad axe.
Very cool regardless.

Thank you for this response. I know so little of hewing and the hewing axe, I just know, if this piece could talk...

Great rescue Fmont
Thank you, I am sure this will provide many conversations and input

 

[Fmont]

Thanks guys, it's a strange thing and honestly if i were to stumble in it in a store for $34 all in I would buy it even deemed non functional. It's just so curious to me.

I, too, thought it looked like a regular axe that had been modded to a hewing form, but the poll is verry wide, wider than I've seen on a falling axe.

I'll get a photo, the eye is of typical side axe formation. The steel is pretty hard! The forge weld is not great, though.

 

[Yankee Josh]

Thanks guys, it's a strange thing and honestly if i were to stumble in it in a store for $34 all in I would buy it even deemed non functional. It's just so curious to me.

I, too, thought it looked like a regular axe that had been modded to a hewing form, but the poll is verry wide, wider than I've seen on a falling axe.

I'll get a photo, the eye is of typical side axe formation. The steel is pretty hard! The forge weld is not great, though.

That is very interesting! And cool! It looks to me like something someone asked the local blacksmith to make for them. Maybe drew it on a napkin real quick and said here make this! At first I thought it was pretty fugly. But the more I look at it the more I appreciate it! I really like the way it looks! Very unique. Could the top lugs have been ground or filed off at some point?

 

[Fmont]

Here go. Poll is 3 3/8", which is wider than any of my Rockaways but about the same as a 4lb KP Jersey. It looks 19th century or earlier to my eye, with that eye and the forge marks.