What did you rehang today?

[A17]

What's up with your hand?

 

[PsYCHoT|K]

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]

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]

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]

. . . 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]

That is the truth!!

 

[Justin Seaux]

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Norlund camp axe on a boys straight.

 

[quinton]

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

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

 

[quinton]

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]

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

 

[quinton]

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]

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

 

[quinton]

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]

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

 

[junkenstien]

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

 

[Brian Rust]

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]

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

 

[quinton]

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]

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.