Old Timers Strikes Again

[Downwindtracker2]

Look what I found https://www.oldtoolstore.co.uk/kent-pattern-side-axe-left-and-right-handed-5017-p.asp I was looking for a rusty spokeshave for a rehab when behind the awaiting rehab box of chisels I found a Kent pattern side axe,. I had forgotten I had bought it. That's both how much importance I placed on it and my age !! It was at a Lee Valley store "garage sale" for $18, they had a bunch . It's the same one. Maybe the rejects. That not such a great deal as I have to pick up a metal sanding belt for the 6x48 and burn 65 miles worth of diesel to get it . The back is even worse than the no-name Plumb fleamarket find. And the bevel has so many facets it makes me feel good about my grinding. However I thought that was amusing. You just got to laugh at yourself some times.I didn't find the spokeshave.

It's another name for a hewing hatchet, I call them carpenters' hand axe . I've read small broad axe and bench axe as well.

 

[Ernest DuBois]

You call it a carpenters' hand axe, a bench axe, small broad axe and more but since the Kent has always its lugs atop 'n bottom, we should avoid calling the one pictured that name.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

English tool dealer, at 70 pounds too, that's $91 USD. And they sold out. The side axe part is wrong as well, the axe is used with the grain., not across.

 

[Square_peg]

I mostly see them called broad hatchets. But my favorite nickname for them is a 'stump axe'. The little axe you use a out at the stump (tall chopping block) for shaping things. A good stump, waist high, with little or no bell makes a handy and very sturdy chopping block.

 

[Ernest DuBois]

I wouldn't discount side axe at all, to me it's very descriptive of the single bevel config. of a wide range of axes. Having no idea of the origin of this name, I interpret it as a reference to the one side bevel.

 

[KiwiBloke]

A good stump, waist high, with little or no bell makes a handy and very sturdy chopping block.

What's a bell sp?

 

[Downwindtracker2]

We use the term, butt flare . I've never heard bell, I guess I live about 3 or 4 hours north . But it does describe it.

 

[garry3]

We use the term, butt flare . I've never heard bell, I guess I live about 3 or 4 hours north . But it does describe it.

SP was keeping the form G rated.

 

[Downwindtracker2]

L.O.L.

 

[A17]

K KiwiBloke , it's the flare at the bottom of a stump right where it enters the ground.

 

[Square_peg]

K KiwiBloke , it's the flare at the bottom of a stump right where it enters the ground.

Yes. It's hard to stand close to your work if the stump has a widely flared base. No bell is more comfortable to work at.

 

[KiwiBloke]

Ah yes that makes perfect sense! Thanks. I was wondering why people were calling me a bell end! Haha never knew they were into outdoor chopping blocks.