Norse Ax and Trappers trade Hawk

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COAL CREEK FORGE

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All though i have retired from mass quantity's i can still play with fire.I had a bunch of projects laying in the shop and am finally able to get some of them caught up.Enjoy




The handle on the Norse Ax is Curly Red Oak while the Hawk is Curly Maple with Pewter in-lays



 
Now that you've given up (retired?) from making first class recreational toys can I perhaps interest you in trying to make as nice a one-off rendition of a backwoods blacksmith shop axe head, that you can, of an axe head that was made between 1865 and 1871 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada? Seems this unique old head (5 1/4 pounds) was made entirely of steel (instead of a wrought iron body with a steel blade insert) which was not at all typical of axe head manufacture of the era.
The real thing (G for (George) Story foundry of Ashburnham) is pictured below (next to a late 40s conventional Walters) and I can measure it up carefully and photo it from any angles you might want in advance of the local museum taking delivery of this artifact for their collection.
Myself would love to hang and wield an unusually shaped high-cheeked replica of a truly old girl like this just to see how it compares to modern stuff, but sanding and soaking and grinding away the old head (I found it along a split cedar rail fence row 30 years ago) would have devalued the museum value of it significantly.

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300Six said:
Now that you've given up (retired?) from making first class recreational toys can I perhaps interest you in trying to make as nice a one-off rendition of a backwoods blacksmith shop axe head, that you can, of an axe head that was made between 1865 and 1871 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada? Seems this unique old head (5 1/4 pounds) was made entirely of steel (instead of a wrought iron body with a steel blade insert) which was not at all typical of axe head manufacture of the era.
The real thing (G for (George) Story foundry of Ashburnham) is pictured below (next to a late 40s conventional Walters) and I can measure it up carefully and photo it from any angles you might want in advance of the local museum taking delivery of this artifact for their collection.
Myself would love to hang and wield an unusually shaped high-cheeked replica of a truly old girl like this just to see how it compares to modern stuff, but sanding and soaking and grinding away the old head (I found it along a split cedar rail fence row 30 years ago) would have devalued the museum value of it significantly.

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I appreciate your considering me,BUT i'll pass on the commision.If i do start forging Hawk's and ax's again i think i'll just sell what i forge and stay away from commission and spec order's-alot less stressful and i won't be tied down to the forge.
 
Your Norse axe is a beauty. I'm curious did you harden the hammer poll and how large is ithe axe overall? It looks like it has a good sized handle.
 
Beutiful work sir! I hope you do come out of retirement cuz man I'd love to have one of your works of art and then another and another and another ect...lol!
 
That opening sentence is a bit disrespectful and ignorant sir. Tomahawks are most certainly not recreational toys. Kinda
Along the line of saying an axe is a toy and that's why we got chainsaws now.
 
lazy otter said:
That opening sentence is a bit disrespectful and ignorant sir. Tomahawks are most certainly not recreational toys. Kinda
Along the line of saying an axe is a toy and that's why we got chainsaws now.
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Quoting who you are talking to sure helps.
 
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