What did you rehang today?

[jblyttle]

I don't, comparatively speaking, find many double bit heads. But, I know a good handle when I see one. I picked this handle up at Lowe's some time ago, knowing that I would find a suitable head for it sooner or later.

 

[tobiism]

Wow thats a beauty of a handle!

 

[Square_peg]

Gotta grab one like that when you find them. Great hang.

 

[johnnyfive]

Charles Hammond lathing hatchet. The hammer poll was destroyed so I cleaned that up.

 

[Square_peg]

You might enjoy this C. Hammond tool catalog from 1910. Your half hatchet is on page 7 of the pdf (page 11 of the catalog).

http://cedarriverforge.com/Photo-index/Tools/C Hammond 1910 catalog.pdf

 

[johnnyfive]

You might enjoy this C. Hammond tool catalog from 1910. Your half hatchet is on page 7 of the pdf (page 11 of the catalog).

http://cedarriverforge.com/Photo-index/Tools/C Hammond 1910 catalog.pdf

Thank you buddy. I appreciate that

 

[johnnyfive]

I have a question for the master hangers and anyone else who might want to chime in. Do you prefer wood glue for driving in the wedge or using a good dose of blo on the wedge then driving it home?

 

[garry3]

I am in the anyone else category. I drive my wedges dry.

 

[jblyttle]

I occasionally go dry, but more often than not I dip the wedges in BLO first.

 

[Woodcraft]

I have a question for the master hangers and anyone else who might want to chime in. Do you prefer wood glue for driving in the wedge or using a good dose of blo on the wedge then driving it home?

I use BLO, dry would be fine as well.

 

[cityofthesouth]

I'm in the DPG camp on the wedges. I typically pour some into the kerf and I coat the wedge before I drive it, then I keep applying it to the end grain until I get bored or it won't take any more.

 

[Whiskey_Jim]

BLO for me

 

[Square_peg]

DPG for me.

 

[Derzelas]

Dry and BLO for me. It depends if I have the BLO around.

 

[Curt Hal]

Gotta grab one like that when you find them. Great hang.

That is a fantastic handle. Wow. Incredible grain. Great job on the hang.

 

[daizee]

I'm out of practice. I hung this no-name 2LB head on this old 19" handle today. Judging from the profile it must be something recent and not collectible at all. Seems to be hard at the edge, at least. The wedges I had were too wedgie, so I made a slimmer taper. Turns out I miscalculated a bit, but the head is super tight on the casting seam inside the eye. I'll have to pull the wedge and shape a new one, but I'll bang on it a bit for fun to loosen it up first. It took some whacking through a piece of red oak firewood without complaint.

This will need re-doing....:

For scale:

 

[flexo]

a cross wedge should solution that ?

 

[daizee]

a cross wedge should solution that ?

Perhaps. But that would just be an admission that I screwed it up and can't do it right.

 

[Agent_H]

I like the look of it. :thumbup:

The handle looks great especially. Second on Flexo's idea of a crosswedge.

 

[daizee]

I like the look of it. :thumbup:

The handle looks great especially. Second on Flexo's idea of a crosswedge.

You guys may be swaying me here. Steel or wood? wouldn't I need to cut a cross-kerf for a wood wedge, which would mean pulling it off again anyway?