Show Your Favorite Norlunds

[Slice-and-dice]

Many folks like Norlunds. Care to share pics of yours- new, restored, or even rough looking?

Here's my latest one, picked up today on Black Friday -

 

[Hickory n steel]

I have wanted one of their saddle cruisers for years but can't justify the insane asking prices, I'm sure the stars will align for me some day though.

 

[Slice-and-dice]

I have wanted one of their saddle cruisers for years but can't justify the insane asking prices, I'm sure the stars will align for me some day though.

Understood, I'm only buying a few here and there now because the prices may have softened just a bit. Perhaps just because of the current economic woes...

 

[rjdankert]

Bob

 

[Slice-and-dice]

Bob

Fantastic post, Bob, complete with the ad! That'll make many chores "eat hickory!"

 

[LG&M]

I have not found one "in the wild" picking one up at a estate sale or garage sale is probably the only way I will owe one
Very nice hatchet

 

[Slice-and-dice]

Here’s one i picked within the last week, all original, needs to be rehung. Its the small tomahawk.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Here’s one i picked within the last week, all original, needs to be rehung. Its the small tomahawk.

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That would be the Voyager, and their HB pattern boys axe is the Tomahawk.
Kind of bass akwards , but that's they way they named it.
They also had an actual little Tomahawk too, called the frontiersman.

 

[Hickory n steel]

This Norlund frontiersman sold on Ebay back in September for $700.

 

[Slice-and-dice]

That would be the Voyager, and their HB pattern boys axe is the Tomahawk.
Kind of bass akwards , but that's they way they named it.
They also had an actual little Tomahawk too, called the frontiersman.

Thanks for the info! Any advice on rehanging? Never done it but seems easy, like to do it myself. Buy some hickory from big box store?

 

[Hickory n steel]

Thanks for the info! Any advice on rehanging? Never done it but seems easy, like to do it myself. Buy some hickory from big box store?

It depends whether you want to buy a handle or make one from scratch.

if you want to buy a handle I'd order from beaver tooth or House handles, but OP LINK does make a fawns foot hatchet handle that you should be able to reshape to match this original and they're the most common at big box and hardware stores.
They're typically pretty chunky with plenty of material to work with.
Usually I'm making a much slimmer handles out of them, but you could get this handle out of one no problem.

If you have a 1x30 belt grinder that's a gamechanger that makes things significantly easier, but when I'm out of belts I still do things the old way with half round rasp & file or a 4 in 1 rasp/ file and a card scraper or sandpaper.
It's not hard at all.
YouTube has plenty of videos.

 

[rjdankert]

Bob

 

[Square_peg]

Norlunds hold no mystique for me. It's just another MET-made home owner quality axe with a good marketing program which has given them cult status lately. I've had a few nice ones but I've always sold them. This 5-pound rafting axe was a looker.

 

[Square_peg]

This little Voyager was a nice hatchet. I sold it.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Norlunds hold no mystique for me. It's just another MET-made home owner quality axe with a good marketing program which has given them cult status lately. I've had a few nice ones but I've always sold them. This 5-pound rafting axe was a looker.
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The only one I'm really interested in is their saddle cruiser since DB hatchets are so uncommon.
You pretty much just have the Norlund, then METCO also made them with the [COLLINS] stamp on them at some point but those are never seen.

 

[Old Axeman]

Norlunds have always been just good user axes to me, and I still like and use the ones I have. I also have never understood the mystique thing.