What did you rehang today?

My latest, a True Temper Lion 3 1/2 on a 32" VB swinger from Home Hardware. There was a decent amount of shaping to slim the handle down and shape the swell, but that's half the fun.




For comparison here it is with its little brother the TT Lion, a pulpwood/boy's axe on a 28" (also a VB swinger handle if I remember correctly).



 
I just rehung the first axe I ever bought (years ago) that was also my first post on Bladeforums if I remember right. It's gone through a few handles (the last being a cherry handle that broke on an overstrike). She's now sitting pretty on a 28" House Handle that I stained to make it look a bit more aged.
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DarthTaco123 said:
I just rehung the first axe I ever bought (years ago) that was also my first post on Bladeforums if I remember right. It's gone through a few handles (the last being a cherry handle that broke on an overstrike). She's now sitting pretty on a 28" House Handle that I stained to make it look a bit more aged.
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That's a thing of beauty right there :thumbup:

I love slapping some stain on a handle just to make it look well-used. Then I well, use it :D
 
I rehang this little guy a while back. Genuine Norlund on a 28" straight handle from House Handles. Nice small fallers axe. Pic was before I treated the handle. Stained it, then BLO and mineral sprits :thumbup:

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Thanks Camillus! For a 3 lb head it does bite that dead spruce pretty well. Next time I'm bucking firewood I'm using my saw though ha.
 
nice chopping!

DarthTaco123 said:
I just rehung the first axe I ever bought (years ago) that was also my first post on Bladeforums if I remember right. It's gone through a few handles (the last being a cherry handle that broke on an overstrike). She's now sitting pretty on a 28" House Handle that I stained to make it look a bit more aged.
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Right side of picture is my most recent refurb/hang. It's a 1.25lbs Bingham's Hardware XLCR short for Excelsior band Dayton pattern hatchet head. The head is a dead ringer for other Kelly and TrueTemper hatchets I have and not the first one I've come across. Talking with one of their old forge operators they made axes and tools for a number of different companies. The handle is a cut down 28" boys axe handle from a company that no longer produces handles. The final length is 25" compared to the Gransfors and a TrueTemper both on 19" handles. The Gransfors handle needs some work, and the TrueTemper is slated to be pulled apart and I'll hopefully be putting a much nicer handle on it in the future.
 
Square_peg said:
Sweat and dirt makes a pretty nice stain.
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Indeed it does! I equate putting stain on a handle to forcing a patina on a carbon steel knife blade. They're both artificial ways of making something look like it belonged to granddad. Maybe I'm just impatient. No, I'm sure I am :D
 
Finished this one yesterday but have been having image hosting problems.
It's marked made in Sweden but it has no makers mark or it rusted off. The patina is so think it makes my pants tight. Based on the location of the made is Sweden I want to say it's a hults.
Enjoy
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The current to-be-hung queue:

1) this week's True Temper, relieved of its miserable old haft this evening, mushrooming ground and scotch-brite'd. No further factory markings revealed, but some previous owner marked it with different sets of initials on both sides.

2) a 2lb (marked) boy's axe, only pattern of its kind that I have. scotch-brite'd it a bit while I had the belt on the grinder. I want this one in service, because two is one, and one is none, so I should have THREE boy's axes... *facepalm*

3) a 'GROVE Street' NYC marked hatchet head, untouched. There hasn't been a smithy on Grove street in 100 years, unless some hipster moved in recently...


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Whiskey_Jim said:
Finished this one yesterday but have been having image hosting problems.
It's marked made in Sweden but it has no makers mark or it rusted off. The patina is so think it makes my pants tight. Based on the location of the made is Sweden I want to say it's a hults.
Enjoy
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Nice one, like it.
 
on my to be hung list is an inserted-bit virginia pattern (finally) but i don't have a picture and you may see this next sunday, or the week later depending if i have to order a handle
 
Yesterday I picked up a handle, and this afternoon I hung the Grove Tool Works hatchet. It's a bit heavy for this handle (1.75lb), but the eye is clearly hatchet-sized.

Not my best job, but the proud haft fills the eye better just about as it meets the head. I left it proud for the wedging effect. I think a slightly wider wedge was called for, but I used the one that came with the handle. It's all soaked in BLO, and now drying in the basement.

A 40grit Zirc belt in the 2x72" made short work of the shaping, and then I cleaned it up with a ceramic 60 before the final seating.

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