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Plumb boys axe help
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We have a lot of Plumb info floating around but it's hard to tell the exact age of them when they are separated from their original handles (that doesn't even help most of the time).
I have wondered if the Plumb in a box with sharp square corners were older than the rounded ones.
Nice looking axe though.
I have wondered if the Plumb in a box with sharp square corners were older than the rounded ones.
Nice looking axe though.
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This is an interesting Plumb thread if you get past some of the silly turns towards the end. My apologies if you've already perused it.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...!!Plumb-axe-help-dating-and-other-information
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...!!Plumb-axe-help-dating-and-other-information
The rectangle framed PLUMB logo came into use starting in about 1917 and was patented in 1920. If the original haft featured a headless conical screw in it we'd be talking 1922-1943 and if there was (and this was not 100% always the case) epoxy in the eye and no wedge it would have been made 1955+. By the end of WWII Plumb had pared down the number of models and sizes significantly. If yours (the size and pattern) is not featured in a post WWII catalogue that'll narrow things down considerably.
Thank you for the info. Based on what you wrote I can date my plumb hatchet now - it has the rectangle frame around PLUMB logo and it had a headless conical screw when I got it.
If you actually have one of these we'd love to see some detailed pictures. There are diligent folks on here that keep (and update) a library of relevant facts (with accompanying pictures) to help delve into all this. Axes were 'pedestrian' implements throughout most of their history and record-keeping about their production and evolution was negligible. Retailer's catalogue entries (with calendar year featured at the top) is often all there is. Myself am only an oral historian in sorting through specific date memories and don't have much in the way of anything else (ie concrete evidence) to put forward.
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Hey 300six I know you weren't asking me but have a hatchet that might help. This one also had a screw in wedge but the head was loose so I rehung it on the original handle with only a hardwood wedge.
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Hey 300six I know you weren't asking me but have a hatchet that might help. This one also had a screw in wedge but the head was loose so I rehung it on the original handle with only a hardwood wedge.
Beauty.
It's the one I show in picture on page 145 I think on "what you rehang today" topic - with the sheath I did for it. I think I lost the headless screw or is hiding very good in my nails cans. Re-hanged on its original handle - it was very loose even with screw when I got it for 1CAD from an old man at an yard sale.
You can see here how thin the wood was - I still have some cosmetic filling to do where the screw bit from the handle
I can hardly see right now, but the handle has a stamp with "hickory" and "tested" on it. Thin handle overall, very comfortable and it's 13.5" more or less in lenght - ax bit is extra.
PS looks like it was a "PLUMB" on the handle too, just P and L can be seen now - stamp similar with what was posted above by nsvens89
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