The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
I'd stay short with a broad hatchet 16"-17" max. And straight haft rather than curved haft.Yes, I am resurrecting this 7 year old thread. I have recently reprofiled the bit. Just need to sharpen it and hang it. The question is what do I hang it on? The eye is roughly the size of a boys axe eye and I have a crazy curly boys axe haft thats got horizontal grain orientation. I was thinking about hanging it on that but something just didn't feel right about putting a double bevel hewing head on that 28" haft. (edit: Ooops! I don't know why I was thinking it had a boys axe size eye, it's not even close to that size. My bad!) I was thinking about a haft in the 20" range but what shape should it have? Then somewhere in the bowels of the bladeforums I found a Kelly Axe and Tool Works True Temper catalog from 1925 with the following page in it:
As you can see in the bottom left corner if it would have come from the factory in 1925 it would have been hung on a 16" handle. I doubt mine is quite that old but it looks like I will be making a 16-18" handle for it. Now to decide on a species. I have beech, sugar maple, ash and maybe something else in my garage. Or, I could scour the internet for a proper hickory handle. Decisions!
Fine looking rasp you have there. Fine tooth rasps are a little less common and very handy!I was organizing the garage earlier today and found what looks like the handle that this came off of.
The handle was serviceable so I fit the head, sanded it down to clean it up, hung it and now its getting coats of BLO.
