My very own axe.

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Well over the weekend, a walk in the woods resulted in finding an old axe. Since she was in good condition, and obviously wasn't an antique, I snagged her up and brought her home to refurbish.

I wish I took pics of the whole process, but was too focused on what I was doing.
I removed the old, beat-up haft and sanded the head down to bear metal. It had some rust, and the remnants of red paint. I gave her a good cleaning, then hit the whole head with matte-black, heat-resistant grill/stove paint.

A trip to several hardware stores was needed to find a replacement haft with a decent friggin' grain structure. Thankfully I found one, and mounted her up. Left a little space to cap her off with some epoxy.

I masked off a portion of the blade, about 2 inches from the edge, and hit the ENTIRE axe with tan engine-enamel. Comes out great, and is a good, hard coat.I then coated the grip of the haft with paint-on truckbed liner (love the stuff).

This is the final product:

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She's all mine. One of the greatest tools ever invented, that no true man should ever be without.

Now, I've been looking for the company that produced the axe, but the only marks on it are a "TT" symbol, and "3 1/2" (and I can't find any dimensions on the head that measure out to 3.5"...).
Anyone have a clue?
 
One other thing..We try to keep our toes out of the pic's unless they are spectacular like Ray Richards toes :D.
 
The axe is a nice find! Looking at your toes,not so much! It gave a feeling of, Axe falls off chair(like third photo), several toes (bodyless) and somebody screaming! I hate horror stories, glad this one is just absent photo skills.
 
Damn, I didn't even notice them there until you said something...

Damn massive hobbit-feet...
 
Ray is the ugly toe heavy weight champion of the world...:D
 

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Was just gonna say- if you're messing w/ axes, you should be wearing shoes. :P
Nice job on the axe- use it in good health.
 
Lucky find if the woods. Great looking clean up job..............
 
Nice find! Is it my eyes tricking me, though, or does the axe head look upside-down? I thought that the flare of the beard usually went on the haft side?
 
FortyTwoBlades i think you may be right... also is it just me or are the lines on this axe head TOO crisp? They are all like 90 degree angles, do you think its forged or cast?
 
It's possible, but I made sure to mount the head the same way it was originally mounted (which was definitely a factory job and not a garage hack-job, like my work).

And the lines are pretty crisp, especially compares to the cast, Walmart axe my father bought a few years ago. What I find odd is that the dimensions aren't even; if looking at the poll, haft down, the top plane slopes down to the left.
 
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