Puget Sound AXE question.

[catspa]

You’re on the right track with a drift or drift-like object, but you don’t need to heat the whole thing, just the part of the eye that’s smunched.

Pressing a drift through cold isn’t a good idea. Kinda like cold bending a bent knife tip - it was weakened when it got smunched, you’ll weaken it again when you smunch it back. Even if it seems to hold, it’ll always be the weakest point.

Parker

 

[Square_peg]

Please tell me how. I have a single bit that someone smashed on the side of the eye. I was going to forge a drift in the correct shape, then press it thru the eye in a hydraulic press. Should that not work, I thought of doing it in my forge, then reharden and temper. is there an easier way?

I already described the process in my post above.

Puget Sound AXE question.

Bought a Sager Chemical, Puget Sound pattern axe with a 40 inch handle at a local flea market. Had never seen a Puget sound axe before. It appeared to have been laid on its side and struck with a large hammer. Perhaps to tighten the handle? It has a depression in the sides of the eye. I obtained...

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[jumbo jim]

I think making a drift is good, but it needs to be tapered and driven in from the side opposite the handle. Judicious use of a torch and hammer might bring it back into shape without getting the cutting edge hot enough to draw the temper. Don't push the drift THRU the eye. Push it INTO the eye from the outer side enough to get the eye back into shape and push it back out. Axe eyes are tapered.