Pocket Axe?

[hollowdweller]

Here's a Paul Bunyon I own.

http://www.hollowdweller.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=332&hilit=hartwell

 

[OutdoorEnvy]

I am gonna talk and sure someone will correct me,

Your handle looks like it has been broken off at the head and carved or rasped down to fit and then put back in the handle,

I think you're right Omniviking, the handle doesn't fill out the eye at all on the bottom of the head and it's loose. I found a Vauhan handle for their sub-zero hatchet that I think will work great for this axe. Thanks for your info and pictures.

 

[Scottman]

Love the mini hatchet. I often carry just the head along in my "non work edc" http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...ombining-with-the-Knife?p=9839761#post9839761

 

[HandAxeProMan]

Steve,

You are the major winner! I won the sheath Robin made. Soooo, I'm very lucky too.

Howard

 

[Pipeman]

Steve,

You are the major winner! I won the sheath Robin made. Soooo, I'm very lucky too.

Howard

I am a happy camper ;-))))

Thanks for the kind comment my friend, glad you like the sheath.

R

 

[Steve Tall]

Here's an in-hand shot of the mini carpenter's hatchet. The edge is only 2-1/8".

(This hatchet now belongs to Robin.)

 

[omniviking]

Here's an in-hand shot of the mini carpenter's hatchet. The edge is only 2-1/8".

(This hatchet now belongs to Robin.)

Back a long time ago, they made Real toy tools for the kiddies, this could be a hatchet from ones of those little tool kits.

 

[knedgecko]

Back a long time ago, they made Real toy tools for the kiddies, this could be a hatchet from ones of those little tool kits.

Isn't it just a shingle hatchet for roofing?

 

[hatch]

Best I can figure, it's "tree-sounding axe," presumably for timber cruisers to use to "sound" or tap on trees to make sure they are not hollow before marking them for cutting. Forestry Suppliers still sells such an axe. "Pocket axe" is a good guess too, as the ad at FS says that foresters like to carry them in their jacket pockets. When Marbles was making (outsourcing) repros of some of their old patterns, I bought one of each. The smallest is called the Belt Axe No.000, only slightly bigger than the one you have. All I can think of to do with it is to call it the smallest axe I've ever seen or maybe stick it in my pocket so I can say, "No problem. I have an axe."

 

[hatch]

By the way, Webster Marbles started his career in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as a timber cruiser, and he designed the axe I have, so it was probably designed to be a sounding axe. I also have (if I can find it) the smaller model of the Marbles Safety Axe. It seems too small to do much with, so I'll bet it was designed to be a pocket sounding axe too.