It followed me home (Part 2)

Old lady thinks I have gone mad... 5 followed me home today for 25$.

1. True Temper Kelly Perfect
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2. Craftsman
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3. True Temper Flint Edge
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4. Marshall Bros.
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5. Plumb 3.2
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How did I do? Where should I start? Suggestions? I'm new to the art and new to the site! Having lots of fun.
 
Them's no good. Shame I'll have to take them off your hands and all. Right? That has to work, I'm pretty convincing.

Fantastic axes, color me jealous, especially for $25.00
 
Congratulations. Good find at very little investment. Presumably all come from the same previous owner. Lots of miles on some of these and there may not be enough temper left in some of the blades to do much more than clean up and hang on the wall. But you learn as you go and you do have to start somewhere. Beats forking over $200 for a ready-made boutique jobbie!
 
Those Connecticuts are really good looking JB. That pattern just is easy on the eyes.

Ever think you might exhaust the stores of older tools in your locale?

I hope not for sure.
 
Those are nice axes and all look to be very usable to me. I usually don't find very many that exciting around here.
 
This last weekend I happened upon a Wards Master Quality one man crosscut saw.
It is a 42” perforated lance tooth. No crack in the handle and the blade is straight.




It has a helper/aux handle but I don’t know if it’s original – the pin is missing and looks like someone rigged something up to keep it on there.
It tightens up and seems like it wants to stay put but I haven’t used it yet.





This other handle is one that I picked up several weeks ago from a garage sale.
It is intact but is a Disston so I figure if the one it came with has issues I can swap it out.

So, it seems I bought a handle and then found the saw – backwards approach or maybe meant to be?

My folks have property on the coast that is full of smaller pine/fir up to about 1’ in diameter and we usually run through it every couple of years to clear sick/windfall and view obstructing trees.
The chainsaw has been our main tool but these last couple of years my axes have been used by the 3 of us.

Always results in a fire, some drinks, and some laughter.

I’m not a saw pro and I know that sharpening them is an art but from what you see from the pictures, it doesn’t look too far gone does it?
Seems like 80% of the blade is sharp enough to slice your fingers/hand if you pick it up carelessly.
The rakers seem equal or a hair longer than the teeth.

Someone took care of it - I haven't cleaned it all yet.

Nice saw Agent H.
Like you I also pick up handles when ever I find them at a good price. Sometimes I just buy a saw for the handles even.

You probably already know this but that fender washer looking thing is probably the bottom to that helper handle.
 
Nice saw Agent H.
Like you I also pick up handles when ever I find them at a good price. Sometimes I just buy a saw for the handles even.

You probably already know this but that fender washer looking thing is probably the bottom to that helper handle.

I picked up a two man saw handle a couple of months ago while up the mountain here. Once again, on the premise that it might be useful at some point...

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That saw came from an estate sale and I hadn't done anything to it except pull it out of the truck and snap a picture on the way into the garage.

That rotting table is just outside my man door. My assumption was that the guy's son took it apart and cleaned it up for sale then put it back together. Bob noted the medallion was on the wrong side as well. The guy at the sale also had quite a few vintage 14" wrenches that looked freshly cleaned. The saw was actually pretty inexpensive as he was convinced that Wards products were inferior to the smaller Disston hand saws he had there. Those were priced 3X as much as the crosscut because in his words, "No one uses those things anymore".

I didn't know it was called a fender washer though, thank you Garry. I am looking for someone here to sharpen it. Figure paying someone to do it is a way of keeping that trade alive. Anyone who has the experience and developed skills to do it properly is worthy of the fee to bring it back to life. Guess I am looking at it like buying a well-chosen rifle then spending as much (or maybe more) on optics for it. Of course I plan to learn but I would need to gather the tools and find the time. That is on my list of things to take on but this one seems nice enough to have done properly and not have it be a casualty to my learning curve. There is another saw in my workspace here that I will use to learn.

We had several two-man crosscut saws growing up but my grandfather was the one that sharpened them. Being a kid, I was always eager to run the chainsaw and didn't appreciate the saws as I should have...
 
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Wow, that Marshall Bros. axe has that *really* old feel to it. Good finds all around, though that Plumb might be a little short on hardened bit. That one's been used quite a bit for sure. That Flint Edge is awesome.
 
JB,

I'm quite jealous of those two Connies...those are gorgeous. I still have never even seen a Connie in my searches locally. It's very cool you have such a good supply up there. I may break down and pick one up off of some auction site or something if I don't find one soon.
 
I picked up a two man saw handle a couple of months ago while up the mountain here. Once again, on the premise that it might be useful at some point...



That saw came from an estate sale and I hadn't done anything to it except pull it out of the truck and snap a picture on the way into the garage.

That rotting table is just outside my man door. My assumption was that the guy's son took it apart and cleaned it up for sale then put it back together. Bob noted the medallion was on the wrong side as well. The guy at the sale also had quite a few vintage 14" wrenches that looked freshly cleaned. The saw was actually pretty inexpensive as he was convinced that Wards products were inferior to the smaller Disston hand saws he had there. Those were priced 3X as much as the crosscut because in his words, "No one uses those things anymore".

I didn't know it was called a fender washer though, thank you Garry. I am looking for someone here to sharpen it. Figure paying someone to do it is a way of keeping that trade alive. Anyone who has the experience and developed skills to do it properly is worthy of the fee to bring it back to life. Guess I am looking at it like buying a well-chosen rifle then spending as much (or maybe more) on optics for it. Of course I plan to learn but I would need to gather the tools and find the time. That is on my list of things to take on but this one seems nice enough to have done properly and not have it be a casualty to my learning curve. There is another saw in my workspace here that I will use to learn.

We had several two-man crosscut saws growing up but my grandfather was the one that sharpened them. Being a kid, I was always eager to run the chainsaw and didn't appreciate the saws as I should have...

Its not a fender washer but the piece that rides on the back of the saw under the helper handle. Most times when I think I spot one they end up being nibs that go on scythes.

That is a nice handle you found there. It seems many of them with the longer guard like that one have been broke through the years. I have been able to complete a couple of matching sets by picking up them odd ones when I find them at a good price.

I have checked my stash of odd handles but I unfortunately don't have a match to the one you have. If I did we could for sure work out a trade or something too be sure one of us ended up with a set. So why don't you keep posting your handle finds here? It could benefit us both.

This is my latest find(last night) at an auction. I thought it had a broken guard to one of the handles. It turns out it was just miss matched handles. It was embarrassingly cheap. Its a 5' saw that is taper ground and straight so it might be worth the effort to sharpen but I really just wanted the handles.



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I have checked my stash of odd handles but I unfortunately don't have a match to the one you have. If I did we could for sure work out a trade or something too be sure one of us ended up with a set. So why don't you keep posting your handle finds here? It could benefit us both.

Sounds good Garry. I actually come across them semi-often at a couple of places I drive through for work.
 
I got this stuff from a 93 year old guy that looked like an active 80. His grip was a match for mine, God bless him.

 
This last weekend I happened upon a Wards Master Quality one man crosscut saw.
It is a 42” perforated lance tooth. No crack in the handle and the blade is straight.


Good saw. Very useful length.

Just so you know a little more about that saw, it used to be longer. It has been cut down. You can tell by looking at the teeth under the handle. Cut off in the middle of a lance tooth. Factory saws end with a half raker.

The teeth have been filed down about 3/8" to 1/2" from when they were new. The gullets between the lance teeth should be deeper. Next time you sharpen it you should take those down with a round file.
 
Some really nice handles there!

Oh God, I also had a pile of super nice NOS handles in my pile and forgot them. I already called and am going back. In the group were a couple of Forest King cruiser handles which were so nice, so perfect and you just cannot but those anywhere anymore. I know House Handle has them, but they are thick and need shaping. These are perfect as is. I will post when I get them.

They may look nice in the pic, but the only keeper (of the axes) is the large hatchet handle that has some dark color on it. The others are either cracked or worm eaten.
 
$63.00 for all of this. The hoosier pattern, spiller boys axe, and maine pattern DB are already sold. The hammer heads are going in the forge.
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Good saw. Very useful length.

Just so you know a little more about that saw, it used to be longer. It has been cut down. You can tell by looking at the teeth under the handle. Cut off in the middle of a lance tooth. Factory saws end with a half raker.

The teeth have been filed down about 3/8" to 1/2" from when they were new. The gullets between the lance teeth should be deeper. Next time you sharpen it you should take those down with a round file.

Thank you for the close eye assessment on the saw - all of this is great to know and helps me build some reference for them and their overall condition when I come across them.

Any guesses on how much was removed from the blade? Currently 42". I will pull the handle and look at the edge where it's been cut down- maybe previous helper handle hole is being covered?
Also, from experience with saws, was that common to do that to them? "Customized" length or maybe in response to damage? I know there is an art to saw use and maintenance so my questions here are from a beginner perspective.

I'm a quick learner though :)

I knew it wasn't a NOS find but compared to my first attempt at picking up a used saw, it seems more intact.

There is a lot of cool tools coming through this thread and I don't want this thing to eat up too much real estate.

Square_peg, you aren't far from me so if you know of someone locally - personally or professionally - who does good work on them, I'd be curious.

*I don’t want to foul the forums with solicitation but I would like to use this saw in as sweet a condition as possible.

JB – Every one of those tools appear to be in great condition. I like the punch there on the right – any markings? The length the axes – 28-32” or so?
 
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Any guesses on how much was removed from the blade? Currently 42". I will pull the handle and look at the edge where it's been cut down- maybe previous helper handle hole is being covered?
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Not sure it was cut down. Here are two examples of the same model.
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FWIW not all plates were made with "solid-ends", e.g.
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Bob
 
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