Photos Paint Scheme Significance?

survivor45 said:
What is the significance of this type of handle painting. It seems to be a Scandinavian thing. It must have something more to do with than just looking cool.
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Looks to me to resemble all the various maritime flags ships use to signify various things.

Either way buying a gussied up council tools axe from the Best made company for 3x the price of a standard one is a fools game, I'm exyrextre surprised they've managed to stay in business.
I guess they really just plain know what hipsters want.
 
A lot of fire and trail crews paint up their handles to keep track of whose is whose at a glance. A lot of loggers as well.

Simpler paint schemes usually, but maybe that's a factor. Imitation of real working tools seems to be the game.
 
muleman77 said:
A lot of fire and trail crews paint up their handles to keep track of whose is whose at a glance. A lot of loggers as well.

Simpler paint schemes usually, but maybe that's a factor. Imitation of real working tools seems to be the game.
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Plus adding a bright color makes the tool a little harder to lose in the woods or an the trail. I know our county parks paints theirs different from the roads department. And the Washington Trails Assoc. paints theirs different from the Pacific Crest Trail Association. Both groups have storage areas at the local Forest Service shops. And sometimes their work areas overlap. Another group, Mountains to Sound Greenway, overlaps a different portion of the WTA work area. Plus Parks has volunteers working on habitat restoration projects in the same areas where WTA and MSG are working. Everyone wants bright colors and everyone needs to be different.

If I'm out with one group and find the tools of another group I'll pass it along to the County or Forest Service to return to the other group. Or I'll take it home, clean it up and sharpen it and then sign up for a volunteer work party with the group that lost it so that I can return it. We all work together. :thumbsup:
 
Best Made's paint jobs seem to make them "Best Made" axes. Many of vintage Hults Bruk's Agdor line came from the factory with red/yellow painted swells and throats. The later incarnations of Billnas/Old Fiskars axes seem to have been done in the same vein.
4boysplus said:
What can you tell me about this hatchet? I knows it's original and from the 60's.

Any further info?

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Brand recognition and marketability may be/have been a factor. I have a couple of American axes/hatchets that have white painted handles and either black or red painted swells. I don't know if it was done at the factory or if it was a specific brand of replacement handle offered in the past.
Examples, True Value hatchet
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Exactly how it's supposed to work S Square_peg .

I've seen the picture of your groups trail cache on here somewhere, that's a good example of a bunch of bright, well cared for, not hipster painted handles.

Dad always dipped his woods axes head first in a half full bucket of red paint, and there was no mistaking it. Other cutters had lime green, bright blue or whatever marking paint they took a fancy to. But no one mixed 'em up at the landing, no matter how many beers were involved.

Seems like mechanics, carpenters and most tool using trades do something like that.
 
Agent_H said:
Best Made's paint jobs seem to make them "Best Made" axes. Many of vintage Hults Bruk's Agdor line came from the factory with red/yellow painted swells and throats. The later incarnations of Billnas/Old Fiskars axes seem to have been done in the same vein.


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Brand recognition and marketability may be/have been a factor. I have a couple of American axes/hatchets that have white painted handles and either black or red painted swells. I don't know if it was done at the factory or if it was a specific brand of replacement handle offered in the past.
Examples, True Value hatchet
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Funny you mention HB AGDOR.
I just got one. It has remnants of blue and yellow paint on the head. It did not come with a handle.
 
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