What did you rehang today?

jblyttle said:
I have 3 more, I'm saving them for the right heads. It's so slim!

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Very nice JB!

phantomknives said:
well, i rehung this a few days ago but i guess this counts, http://imgur.com/gallery/N13bM Its a legitimus, thing, the link explains it and i love this thing, more than my KP DB.Its my first hot rod/chipslinger, you guys want to see kelly vs. collins?
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Ahemm..ok so I feel a little inadequate posting this... lol
but BEHOLD, yesterday I rehung THIS!
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Head was on upside down and it had no wedge or anything in there..I removed the head & put it back on the right away around.. cleaned the head up a little bit ,sanded the handle and made a new wooden wedge out of a random (axe) chip of wood :)

pic was before I did any work on it (bored at work).. may post it later with the handle with some fresh oil etc..
 
That's a beautiful Flint Edge, JB. First rate handle.


Nzedge, what is that little thing? What's the stamp say?
 
"Brades
1729
Made in England"

It's actually in all caps, but vBulletin thinks I'm shouting and autocorrects it all to lowercase. :p

Looks like it's a pin hammer?
 
Im not sure what the correct term for it is, but google would suggest 42blades is correct :)
Found it in a rubbish pile along with a couple other old tools..an old brades claw hatchet and another old/small hammer with no marks that I can see which I havent given any attention to as yet.
Couple more pics of the tiny pin hammer now with one coat of boiled linseed oil..dont want to clean it up too much, I like the old steel and patina. Its tiny but its quite a useful object..used it just yesterday (which made me want to give it some attention/fix the head properly) to hammer those little plastic sleeves into grouting/bricks after drilling, so I can put screws in and hang something up there.. (the thin side was really useful for hammering the plugs in the grout where its depressed / shallower than the surrounding bricks, and since its so light not much chance of breaking, cracking or chipping anything.
my next hang will be something much more substantial ;)
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edit; a bit of searching but I just found this useless information, from the 1941 brades catalogue. it lists the 1729 as a "telephone hammer" :D
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I finished up the really nice ditch blade for a family member recently. The blade got a vinegar bath followed by a wire brush and WD-40, and was then sharpend on both side. I gave the inside curve a thin convex edge for grassy and green stuff, and the outside edge was given a more robust "copping" edge. Both shave currently. The (very dry and grey) handle was lightly sanded and given a few coats of BLO, the plates were given the vinegar treatment followed by a few coats of paint, and the hardware (which I had to cut off due to rust) was replaced with stainless pieces. I will give them the cardboard sheath my briar hook came with to help protect the edge. Overall is should be a great tool. No markings, so it may be import, or just a later True Temper. Either way the steel seemed good (for a machete-like hardness).









 
haha I think Rjdankirt is on the money re the modern use of the telephone hammer

and nice work with that hook SCT :) very nice
 
Nice brush hook indeed, don't know anything about them and didn't realize both edges sharpened
Thanks for the pics
 
Don't think this is anything special but it caught my eye just because it's strapped.

I don't think a coat of BLO would've sorted this out :rolleyes:
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A bit different compared to a conventional hammer, I slimmed down a large "normal" hammer shaft.
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Shaft has a steel pin through it with riveted ends.
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Finally got around to taking a few pictures since if I'm headed out to the shed for some good old fashioned messing around, the last thing I want following me out there is a cell phone.



The short one is a full size bit on a 21" handle, and the big guy at the back is a 36". Both are unmarked heads but the handles were labelled River Trail and River Trail C1 respectively. River Trail is a Home Hardware house brand although they don't supply axes any more.

the middle one is actually the True Temper lion boys axe I hung before. It's the same handle just reworked into something a bit less clunky.

Another view of the big guy. I call it two-face because of the sapwood/hardwood split down the entire length of the handle. Viewed from one side it is a nice blonde handled axe, from the other it's a rich brown handled axe.
 
Canadian Mojo; if you're going to ring paint your hafts and want to be a little more relevant patriotic about it think of classic Stanfields wool socks or Hudson Bay blankets! I'd love to see that. Stanfields wool work socks that I remember from 35-45 years ago at logging, hunting, fishing and mining camps was banded from the top: white/grey/red/double wide white/red/grey and then a strip of white on an otherwise grey sock. You could not mistake these for somebody else's white and red rimmed version of commercial work sock. And they lasted at least twice as long as everyone else's versions too.
 
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The green is 'my' traditional colour for marking personal shop tools and these are very much my tools because of all the work involved so it seemed a natural choice... that and my daughter is amassing a nice collection of blue handled tools on her side of the shop and I was getting jealous so I needed to do something. ;)

I really like the Hudson's Bay idea to the point of doing it to the next Canadian made axe in need of a new handle that follows me home and switching these guys over at the same time. I have been thinking that a splitting maul might be nice even though I don't need it... :D
 
I'mSoSharp said:
Don't think this is anything special but it caught my eye just because it's strapped.


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1. When were strapped hammers made?

2. What was that type primarily used for?

3. Where did that one come from?

The first picture and the tongue of the removed handle make for a more closed hang.

You did a really nice job of cleaning that up I'mSoSharp.
 
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