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Strange little hatchet - Assistance with an ID

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saustin1967

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Went and visited Dad yesterday, he is retired and spends his time trolling resale shops and antique houses looking for old watches and coins. And now axes apparently, he picked this up at an antique dealer last week and passed it on to me. I have never seen anything like it. My Google-Fu does not seem to be working with this item. Any of you great axe gurus ever seen one like this?

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I like it, like a miniature Kentucky pattern. Seems I read that Marbles produced/sold axes at one time with holes instead of a single eye?

Nice little belt axe.

Might be a place to start.

Bill
 
lmalterna said:
I like it, like a miniature Kentucky pattern. Seems I read that Marbles produced/sold axes at one time with holes instead of a single eye?

Nice little belt axe.

Might be a place to start.

Bill
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Thanks, I will further my search there as well. Has the same size and shape as the M1910 Belt Axe, Entrenching from WWI and II as well, the shealth lends itself to that, but cannot find a picture of one withthte hole instead of an eye.
 
Lined the old handle up beside a take off handle that I cut to length and shaped up a bit. Mark bottom and width of pegs. Used a hand saw to cut the notch down the middle the used a carving knife to remove the parts I did not want. Took about an hour.

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Hit it with a file to remove the notch in the blade, and put a razor edge on it. Good as new.
 
Really looks like a Marbles minus the third/center hole. But I could not find a Marbles with ears.

Whoever made it, I call that a neat little treasure.

Bill
 
No straight through eye? Was this a manufacturing expediency so that a snug butt fit handle could be located and then drilled from the front of the head and dowels inserted? I'd have liked to see shots of how you managed to accomplish all this. Or maybe my old brain doesn't fully understand how to hang such an oddball implement. Is there a blind pocket in this head to seat the handle and could it be the intent was to allow pencil tip-shaped wedges (or maybe lag bolts) to keep the head in place? Sorry for the confusion on my part but I've never seen anything like it nor can I see any advantage to such a design.
 
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No straight through eye? Was this a manufacturing expediency so that a snug butt fit handle could be located and then drilled from the front of the head and dowels inserted? I'd have liked to see shots of how you managed to accomplish all this. Or maybe my old brain doesn't fully understand how to hang such an oddball implement. Is there a blind pocket in this head to seat the handle and could it be the intent was to allow pencil tip-shaped wedges (or maybe lag bolts) to keep the head in place? Sorry for the confusion on my part but I've never seen anything like it nor can I see any advantage to such a design.
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I'm pondering that as well. When I see holes like that I automatically think that it was made to be bolted on to something. I was picturing two bolts attaching it to a socketed handle (easier field repairs maybe?). The extra time it would take to make a wood handle that fits and then all the strength you're giving up removing that much wood....

Y'know, if I were to design a handle for that, (and this is entirely me just spitballin' here) I'd make a metal sleeve that fits over the end of a standard axe handle with no kerf with two metal pins, threaded on the ends extending from the top of the sleeve, all one piece. You could then slide the sleeve onto your handle (maybe a few set screws to secure it) and then two nuts would tighten your blade onto the pins. repairs and replacement would be a matter of a wrench and a screwdriver. You could also swap out blades on the same handle as you needed.
 
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