What did you rehang today?

A17 · Apr 17, 2018

What's up with your hand?

PsYCHoT|K · Apr 17, 2018

Vintage Collins 3lb head on a 28" House handle = I'm lovin' it. There's just something so perfect about revivifying an old axe and putting it to use for the first time in an unknown number of years. Especially in the snow.. in the middle of April. Thanks for allowing a guy like me a place like this to share!

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Brian Rust · Apr 18, 2018

A17 said:
What's up with your hand?

It got sucked into my bench grinder with a wire wheel on it. I always wear my leather gloves and safety glasses but I was in a hurry. The wire wheel caught the inside of the eye on a Woodslasher DB and sucked my hand right in. Would you believe I have a degree in safety engineering and I am a safety director? Haha needless to say I have gotten a lot of looks.

phantomknives · Apr 18, 2018

Brian Rust said:
It got sucked into my bench grinder with a wire wheel on it. I always wear my leather gloves and safety glasses but I was in a hurry. The wire wheel caught the inside of the eye on a Woodslasher DB and sucked my hand right in. Would you believe I have a degree in safety engineering and I am a safety director? Haha needless to say I have gotten a lot of looks.

I did that once, wasn't a wirewheel though, that sounds like it really sucked bud.

rjdankert · Apr 18, 2018

Brian Rust said:
. . . bench grinder with a wire wheel on it.

I've found that a bench grinder with a wire wheel is very effective at taking ground in gunk off of skin. Much faster than getting gunk off metal too.

Bob

Brian Rust · Apr 18, 2018

That is the truth!!

Justin Seaux · Apr 19, 2018

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Norlund camp axe on a boys straight.

quinton · Apr 22, 2018

The rusty, pitted, mushroomed poll, pre permabond Plumb boys axe that followed me home yesterday.

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phantomknives · Apr 22, 2018

quinton said:
The rusty, pitted, mushroomed poll, pre permabond Plumb boys axe that followed me home yesterday.
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masterful as always

quinton · Apr 22, 2018

phantomknives said:
masterful as always

Thanks!
I generally pass junk up, but yesterday that little pitted, Plumb axe just called out to me for some reason.

A17 · Apr 22, 2018

Why is that junk? Mushrooming can be filed, and a little pitting isn't that big a deal.

quinton · Apr 22, 2018

A17 said:
Why is that junk? Mushrooming can be filed, and a little pitting isn't that big a deal.

When a person has WAY to many user axes, and never sell anything, then everything should be junk.

A17 · Apr 22, 2018

WHAT!!! You can NEVER have to many axes, user or otherwise.

quinton · Apr 22, 2018

A17 said:
WHAT!!! You can NEVER have to many axes, user or otherwise.

A few axes only take up a corner of a room, hundreds of axes take up rooms.

A17 · Apr 22, 2018

Don't remind me. My collection-enlarging has been put on hold until a storage solution is found.

junkenstien · Apr 22, 2018

Handle is fine,really like the swell.Is that all flapper wheel on the head?Like the way it came out.

Brian Rust · Apr 22, 2018

quinton said:
The rusty, pitted, mushroomed poll, pre permabond Plumb boys axe that followed me home yesterday.
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Is that red handles tool a scraper? I just was given the same looking tool by my grandfather. I will have to look at the maker. It’s red and the same shape as that with white lettering.

Square_peg · Apr 23, 2018

Superbly done, Quinton. It was that axes' lucky day when you found it.

quinton · Apr 23, 2018

Brian Rust said:
Is that red handles tool a scraper? I just was given the same looking tool by my grandfather. I will have to look at the maker. It’s red and the same shape as that with white lettering.

Yes sir, it's a Red Devil paint scraper. One handy tool for shaping, and removing file marks from handles. They are also the fastest way I've found to remove lacquer from new handles. I keep a file handy to sharpen the blades every once in a while or when they get dull.

quinton · Apr 23, 2018

junkenstien said:
Handle is fine,really like the swell.Is that all flapper wheel on the head?Like the way it came out.

I started out with a course grinding disc to remove material fast, and reduce friction. Then down through the flap discs. I didn't get to fine with grits, i think 120, then just used a wire wheel to burnish the finish.