Picked up a Collins and a Pickaroon, any thoughts on either.

[Liberatus1]

The pickaroon looks like it is a cut down tool of some sort and probably is neither here nor there. I see that the Collins says Legitimus very lightly and carries the logo to the right of the Collins name. I'm out in Oregon where a lot of logging was done and I suspect there are a lot of these floating around. I'd like to get an idea of how old and what type the axe is. I'd like to clean it up and oil it. If you have some ideas on how best to do that I would appreciate your point of view about that. I was thinking a wire brush and some BLO after rehanging it on this handle if I can or a new one if needed.

Thanks in advance for any information and wisdom you can share.

 

[Square_peg]

Nice Legitimus. It looks like a boys axe hafted onto a full size handle. They really had to reduce the eye to make it fit. It would look better if you reset the head further down onto the shoulder of the handle.



The pickaroon is an inexpensive import pick mattock with the mattock busted off. I've turned one of those into a picakroon before. It can make a nice pickaroon.

 

[Liberatus1]

Thanks for the response. Yeah the axe handle is pretty busted up just under the eye as well. I'm going to work on doing just as you suggested and take the rasp to it and see if I can make it work. If not I might cut it down for a hatchet handle. You're right about the pickaroon too I suspect. The pick itself is crazy strong, just for fun I was swinging it into some busted up cement and it was cracking the stuff pretty good. Maybe its naive but the strength of steel continually amazes me.