The New Old Stock axe thread.

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olybears57

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Hey guys, I love vintage axes, but am too much of a cheap b@$&#*d to buy new old stock axes when they come up for sale. That being said, I love looking at them. Post up pictures of your new or close to new old stock for us to see!
 
There was a guy that bought a pile of them a few years ago and posted some pictures. They where truly amazing. I unfortunately don't have much to share.
This dates to 64. No ridges in the eye no stamps. Boys axe.
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FYI - NOS 60's - 70's era Hytest Racing (with box) Axe and Agdor 5-Star racing axe.

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Funny no one had any input here. They will let you know about anything else, besides axes they don't own. Interesting indeed.
 
It looks like those Swiss Army surplus hatchets are still plentiful, and at $20.00, they're a bargain. I have one, plus one gussied up by Bark River, speed grinding, re-profiled, and satin polished. Either way, it's a fine hatchet made by the Bruks folks.
 
garry3 said:
There was a guy that bought a pile of them a few years ago and posted some pictures. They where truly amazing. I unfortunately don't have much to share.
This dates to 64. No ridges in the eye no stamps. Boys axe.
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Good to know the date on that sticker. Their scythe blades with that sticker are soft as butter, and the mid-60's is about where I guessed they were from. Makes me curious how the HT on their axes was at that time.
 
Thank you. That one belongs to a friend, the other two are mine. The O.L. Hinds, St. Albans Vermont is particularly rare I think. It's a turpentine pattern or sometimes called a box axe.
 
An Austrian-made 'Ha-Ga-We' forest axe from the 1950s (so I was told) beside a late 1980s West Germany Iltis Canadian. Upper decal says Chrome Vanadium. Second picture is of the right side stamp and third picture is the stamp on the left side. Lee Valley Tools was flogging the NOS HGWs in 1987 along with backroom foundlings from the Walter's Axe Company warehouse that was being demolished. They were heads only and the top of the eye is squared. But the blade is so long and thin that I never got up the gumption to use it.

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