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That Link handle was kinda...barely adequate...kerfed crooked,shocking lack of material in the tongue in general,i made it work,but will look for a better haft by'm by.View attachment 1315792
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Interesting choice of the handle: Is the poll hardened?Finished this up over the weekend. Older Homestead yankee head on 28" straight House club. I've gained access to a basement woodshop, making things go a little faster. After spoke shaving, I did use the belt sander for a little shaping, but finished it with a rasp and left it like that. Ended up at 27" 4 lb. 5 oz. I was going for a fallers/wedge banger, but I think my primary use for this one will be light splitting at camp fires. Picture heavy as always. Enjoy!
The Plumb cruiser snuck into the pics, was sharpening them both. It's 26.5" 3 lb total.
Thanks! I'm not a very tall guy, just under 6 foot, I tend to favor the 27-31" handle length range on anything from 2# to 4# heads. I'm definitely not the pattern identifying master, this homestead could very well be a Dayton pattern. I imagine there being more of a sweep/flare to the toe and heel on Dayton's than this particular axe has, but I suppose it could just be from wear and use over time.
Sold as Ideal ridge, Red Ridge and a couple other names I can't remember. I can say that those are not sticky.
Red Ridge! Yes that's what I saw the axes with similar bevels listed as in I believe a reproduction Sears Roebuck catalog. I looked at alot of catalogs that day, from 1896-1908 I believe.
Wow, great job! That takes a lot of patience to make your own handle for a marbles. Looks awesome! Great grain!This handle was my first attempt at making my own handle out of an old broken axe handle. I decided against this handle for the hatchet head I bought off someone which had no handle. I just didn't like the shape and length and ended up making another. I saved this handle hoping I would be able to use it someday. I ended up purchasing a Marbles No.6 hatchet on eBay and the handle on it was not too good at all. I figured I would try to make one and ended up using my first timer handle. I cut it down and re shaped it a bit and it worked out pretty good. Definitely a bit of a pain with the Marbles eye shape. It took quite a bit of work to get it to fit properly. It is far from perfect, didn't quite fill in the eye completely and a little bit of space on the bottom but it is solid. I'll take it though, definitely more pride in knowing you made it yourself.
Thanks a lot!! It was a bit of a challenge but very rewarding.
FortyTwoBlades
a couple weeks ago and hung it on a 24" council tool velvicut handle, nice slim handle. What a slick little axe. Swung it around on some blow downs today. Really impressed with this set-up, light as a feather but still packs a punch.
image by Ian Hockensmith, on Flickr
image by Ian Hockensmith, on Flickr
image by Ian Hockensmith, on Flickr
You did quite well saving that old handle! I thought it was a Marbles at first with all those Mark's from the original wedges. Did you scrape in the octagon as well? It all works well together. Good looking hudson bay you just gave another chance to. Great combo, good job!I chipped off a huge sliver on the back of the tongue while cutting a cross kerf to fill several wedge/nail holes. Originally i wanted to hang an old Bronson Townsend connie on it. The handle was from a Truper Collins.
Oh well.
I always try to salvage and reuse, even repurpose a good or fair, once solid handle when I can. For now the Bronson will sit here, in full glory...
...what i did manage to do...
Collins
Hudson Bay
2½lbs
22¼"
Wow, great job!Thanks i did shape the handle best i could, it was such a board. I am enjoying the length to weight and the way it looks too
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Also put some micarta handle slabs on a old box hatchet i had laying around while i was doing some other production fixed blade re handles, cause you know why not.
image by Ian Hockensmith, on Flickr
Huge improvement. Looks great!