Replacement handles in Canada?

[J_mcrane]

Sorry for it responding sooner. I figured he was talking to me.

I really appreciate all the posts on this thread. I have some cool tools to work on that I'll try to take pics of the weekend. There is a hatchet that I started on yesterday.

I'm not sure I'm ready yet to build my own handle, but any in the Calgary area want to come tutor me in building one. I defiantly down for it.

And a quick thank you to the veterans out there.


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[Curt Hal]

I just picked up some handles at a Home Hardware. I am out of town, but when I get home, I will post some comparison photos, eye sizes and prices. For interest's sake, the 36" handle at HH for a single bit starts at $8.75 USD, for $2.50, you can get it unfinished and hand selected; then there is the cost of shipping. The 36" handle I just picked up at Home Hardware was $19.95(CDN). It is varnished. Their unvarnished 28" handle was about $15(CDN), compared to a 28" HH handle at $9.15 USD plus shipping.

Here is a comparison of a 36" Home Hardware (Garant) handle, a 36" House Handle (round) and a 36" House Handle (octagonal). The House handles were hand selected and are unfinished. The Garant handle is varnished.

 

[J_mcrane]

Here is a comparison of a 36" Home Hardware (Garant) handle, a 36" House Handle (round) and a 36" House Handle (octagonal). The House handles were hand selected and are unfinished. The Garant handle is varnished.

Nice job! Love your measurements!


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[300Six]

Thank you for the comparison pictures Curt Hal. One thing I've discovered over the past 45 years about 'made in Canada' handles is they are rarely a direct fit. There is virtually always rasp shaping involved. Haft makers seem to be aware that many vintage axe heads in this Country are of Swedish, German, Austrian, British origin (and nowadays Mexican, Indian and Chinese) and I also suspect that prominent outfits such as Walters used eye sizes that also didn't match common US dimensions.

 

[Square_peg]

It's sometimes hard to find hafts with an adequate swell. Hafts are turned from smaller blanks these days to save money. This is one reason why I turn to Tennessee Hickory Products (Beavertooth). They come real fat but at least you have the material to work with.

Last dimension photo, bottom right should read 7/8" not 1-7/8".

 

[Curt Hal]

It's sometimes hard to find hafts with an adequate swell. Hafts are turned from smaller blanks these days to save money. This is one reason why I turn to Tennessee Hickory Products (Beavertooth). They come real fat but at least you have the material to work with.

Last dimension photo, bottom right should read 7/8" not 1-7/8".

You are correct! Good eye.

 

[I need help]

My first time on the forum. I'm in Ontario and looking for an offset handle for my grandfather's broad axe. Thanks

 

[Ernest DuBois]

Not knowing how pressing your need is for re-handling grandfather's axe, knowing all the time that your needs are not my needs and my needs are not those of carbonsteel's, I can only suggest you make contact with Richard Casselman out of Ontario, 3rd generation expert with more than 50 years experience in the use and maintenance of the broadaxe and anxious to pass on what it is he knows about the subject even to the extent he has made for commercial distribution a DVD covering the topic to include specific handling procedures. Believe me when I say it, our Canadian friend, he will welcome your contact cutting through much internet folly and, to be quite straightforward, BS.