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This looks to me like it has the remains of a keen kutter label on it. It's ok if I'm wrong about that, because it's a nice little hatchet on a sound handle, whoever made it. (1lb 6 oz with handle)

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I found out one of my local loggers supply stores stocks Council axes. I had already ordered a Council Jersey pattern felling axe but I went to see what they had. In addition to a number of Dayton pattern straight handles they had several Hudsons Bay Velvicuts in stock for about $10 under MSRP aaaaand I ended up taking one home. When I got home the UPS man was just pulling up with my Jersey and I opened the box with my new Velvicut. The new Jersey looks great and I can't wait to sharpen it up and try it out. My only gripe is that the handle grain on the Jersey is just about 90 degrees off.
 
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Just got this one today, no makers mark, not even a weight marked on it. There's no pitting, the poll hasn't been ground, all it need is to be pulled off the haft, cleaned up, and thrown back on the old haft. The haft is damn near perfect, just needs to be sanded and stained, with maybe a slightly fatter wedge put in as there's a minute amount of wiggle. I don't even really know the pattern to the axe, but it was affordable, and was in decent condition.

P.S: Sorry for the image size, I'm posting this from my iphone.
 
I'm pretty sure that's a newer snow and nealley. But probably an older newer snow and nealley. Before they turned to crap. taking a file to it will let you know for sure.
 
Are they really hard steel? So by older newer, was it still Maine made?

Edit/Update: the steel is hard as hell my mill file barely touches it. Also, the eye is slit and drift, not wrap and weld. So I'm guessing 15 dollars was a good price for it?
 
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Alocksly said:
I found out one of my local loggers supply stores stocks Council axes. I had already ordered a Council Jersey pattern felling axe but I went to see what they had. In addition to a number of Dayton pattern straight handles they had several Hudsons Bay Velvicuts in stock for about $10 under MSRP aaaaand I ended up taking one home. When I got home the UPS man was just pulling up with my Jersey and I opened the box with my new Velvicut. The new Jersey looks great and I can't wait to sharpen it up and try it out. My only gripe is that the handle grain on the Jersey is just about 90 degrees off.
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Welcome to the forum. Lots of great info here.

I wonder, would you be talking about Cutters Supply in Enumclaw?
 
Hey guys, sorry I could not take a picture... I had an axe-cident with my Gransfors Bruks small forest axe. The bone stopped it and 15 stitches sewed it...
 
Square_peg said:
Welcome to the forum. Lots of great info here.

I wonder, would you be talking about Cutters Supply in Enumclaw?
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Thanks for the welcome. Woods logging in Sedro actually. I was also pleasantly surprised to be able to pick up a new hickory handle there for my old froe.
 
I was making a bike ramp out of logs on one of my trails close to my house. The log was about 9 inches wide and it was partially rotten. So, I had to take away the rotten part of the log (about 4 inches on the side that the axe-cident happened). Since the log was rotten it was really wet. I was bent over swinging at about waist height and the axe glanced. Keep in mind the position I was in looked like I was about to do a split... The axe went about a foot off course and hit me ehh 2 inches above that bone that sticks out on your ankle. As soon as I felt it hit I thought "Well I`m fine.", then I remembered that I had sharpened it before I went out. Now I run the 200 yards to my house. I go into the bathroom and see a gapping hole in my leg and say dad we need to go to the hospital and we proceeded to do so. Sorry, correction from the old post it was 12 stitches not 15, 7 on the outside and 5 on the inside. But on the bright side I scored a broad axe, a hewing hatchet, a old mans us army air corps. survival hatchet, and an old shipwrights chest from the 50`s with some history about it too and some of his father`s and great grand father`s tools are in it, the mans name is Alton Dayton... He became famous for remodeling a old church with only traditional tools in the 50`s! The church is called Old Trinity Church!
 
Wow Novak, I'm glad that turned out alright. I'd be careful the first time you use that new broadaxe.:)
 
Thanks, I am really lucky that I did not sever any tendons or nerves. Also, halfaxe, I won`t be using that broad axe for a while because I still need to make a handle.
 
Noval,
Glad it sounds like you are making out fine but sorry to hear of your accident. Everytime I get hurt I remember that "Magic Minute"- that period between slice and when it really start to hurt/bleed. Maybe not a full minute long but feels like it. Opportunity to get it cleaned/dressed and decide if a ride is in order.

As far as it followed me home- no pics yet but I grabbed an old Briddell cleaver and a Plumb axe marked only with the triangle stamp Saturday.

Take care,
Bill
 
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Wow a vintage Plumb and a Hippie van...doesn't get any better than that lol.
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After high school my friends and I drove through all the western states in that hippie bus and broke down in logging country...they did not take us bumming around in there town very well :) turns out some people put acid in some of there equipment and turns out me and my friends are not hippies just like hippie cars ;). Steve tall thanks!! I was excited to find it for 10 bucks in an antique mall, second rafting axe I've found in the last 2-3 months. First was a Collins.
 
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