What did you rehang today?

[phantomknives]

shes beautiful miller, i love the cheeks on it, theyre almost like phantom bevels

 

[Miller '72]

shes beautiful miller, i love the cheeks on it, theyre almost like phantom bevels

Relief Bevels

Thank you my friend! Been a long time but glad to be back among friends of the axe, crosscut & traditional hand tools 🗡

 

[Square_peg]

shes beautiful miller, i love the cheeks on it, theyre almost like phantom bevels

Just well done convex cheeks with a high centerline as an axe should have. This actually works better than phantom bevels.

 

[Miller '72]

Started this one last night and finished it up this afternoon.

Collins Co.
Collinsville Conn.
Legitimus
Connecticut Pattern

3¼ weight stamped
Rescued to this point at 3lbs. I am done removing steel from him.
6" Head X 4⅞" Bit

Totals in at 28¾" X 4lbs
Single Walnut Wedge

 

[rockman0]

I changed handles on this one, It was 15 1/4" but I have other hatchets on 12 to 14" handles that I liked using better than this one.

15 1/4"



It's now 13 1/2" and I like swinging it much better, the label is just about worn off since I took these pictures. I used a 9" shinto saw rasp on my last two hangs, it's got a course side and a fine side, works great

 

[Miller '72]

I changed handles on this one, It was 15 1/4" but I have other hatchets on 12 to 14" handles that I liked using better than this one.

15 1/4"
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It's now 13 1/2" and I like swinging it much better, the label is just about worn off since I took these pictures. I used a 9" shinto saw rasp on my last two hangs, it's got a course side and a fine side, works great
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Very Nice!
I like that lugged boys axe and a great crisp stamp bith sides!
Beauty!

 

[Square_peg]

I changed handles on this one, It was 15 1/4" but I have other hatchets on 12 to 14" handles that I liked using better than this one.

15 1/4"
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It's now 13 1/2" and I like swinging it much better, the label is just about worn off since I took these pictures. I used a 9" shinto saw rasp on my last two hangs, it's got a course side and a fine side, works great
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Well done! That looks great.

Full marks.

 

[rockman0]

Miller, SP, thanks for your comments

 

[Miller '72]

The Two for Tuesday Rehang.

This is a rescue double whamy!
I missed the opportunity to get pictures before of the handle. It had a a horribly drilled and dug into tongue that most had to be cut away, leaving just about 3" to the shoulder.
I had to swallow the shoulder as you will see.
The hang is still tight, solid and full, just needed the shoulder space

The head is a possible worn and weathered away marked head. It had a wonky bowing eye and seems to have been laying in moisture one side submerged for quite a long while. The profile rust line and the different effects each side are revealed thru different exposures.

Connecticut Pattern
Head alone is 3lbs X 6½" X 5" Bit

Finished out at

4lbs X 29½"
Single Birch Wedge

 

[rockman0]

The Two for Tuesday Rehang.

This is a rescue double whamy!
I missed the opportunity to get pictures before of the handle. It had a a horribly drilled and dug into tongue that most had to be cut away, leaving just about 3" to the shoulder.
I had to swallow the shoulder as you will see.
The hang is still tight, solid and full, just needed the shoulder space

The head is a possible worn and weathered away marked head. It had a wonky bowing eye and seems to have been laying in moisture one side submerged for quite a long while. The profile rust line and the different effects each side are revealed thru different exposures.

Connecticut Pattern
Head alone is 3lbs X 6½" X 5" Bit

Finished out at

4lbs X 29½"
Single Birch Wedge

Good job bringing that one back in service!

 

[FLINT77]

yes, good job, looks great. from the pics, it almost looks like that head went through a fire or something. but maybe just the way the rust developed on it.

 

[Miller '72]

4¼lb X 7⅝" Head
4¾" Bit
Walnut Wedge
Era perfect head and handle marriage

Totals
5½lbs X 33½"

The Collins Co
Baltimore Kentucky Pattern
Old Timer Legitimus

 

[Hickory n steel]

I changed handles on this one, It was 15 1/4" but I have other hatchets on 12 to 14" handles that I liked using better than this one.

15 1/4"
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It's now 13 1/2" and I like swinging it much better, the label is just about worn off since I took these pictures. I used a 9" shinto saw rasp on my last two hangs, it's got a course side and a fine side, works great
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Man that's a dream of a hatchet right there, great job on the hang too.
how much does it weight, a standard 1-1/4 ?

 

[rockman0]

Man that's a dream of a hatchet right there, great job on the hang too.
how much does it weight, a standard 1-1/4 ?

Thanks, it's 1 1/4# head, shortly after I got this one I saw the same hatchet on it's original handle sell on the auction site, it brought a lot more money than I was willing to pay. That was 7 years ago and I haven't seen another one since. I guess lugged hatchet heads were an uncommon item back in those days,

 

[Hickory n steel]

Thanks, it's 1 1/4# head, shortly after I got this one I saw the same hatchet on it's original handle sell on the auction site, it brought a lot more money than I was willing to pay. That was 7 years ago and I haven't seen another one since. I guess lugged hatchet heads were an uncommon item back in those days,

aside from various carpenter and trade specific patterns like produce and barrel hatchets...etc, I don't think lugged hatchets were common to any era past the 1800's.
Today you've got the swedish makes, but it's mostly just those swedish makes and the lugs still aren't common otherwise.

 

[garry3]

aside from various carpenter and trade specific patterns like produce and barrel hatchets...etc, I don't think lugged hatchets were common to any era past the 1800's.
Today you've got the swedish makes, but it's mostly just those swedish makes and the lugs still aren't common otherwise.

I came across one with a Keen Kutter or Shapleigh logo (can't remember for sure) a few years ago. The fool sharpened it on an bench grinder to hollow grind. It was so hard to walk away but it would have lost to much bit to get past that steel.

I absolutely loathe bench grinders.

 

[garry3]

I also know of another lugged hatchet in a junk shop in Oregon. It was hanging on the wall as decoration dressed up as a native American tomahawk and has since been taken down after I inquired about it. The last time went through there the shop was closed, so the old guy that owned the shop might be in poor health or worse.

I will be going through there later this week, root for me!

 

[eveled]

I found this in my Dad’s stuff. I don’t know the story or history of it. But it looks like he started to hang it but it broke off? IDK.

I wanted to try to salvage it, so I set it deeper on the handle, set the wedge and it was surprisingly very sturdy. So I cheated and filled the gaps with epoxy. It seems nice and solid. It wont see any heavy use.

 

[eveled]

I’m glad I didn’t waste anymore time on it. I just found a crack. I wonder if that was why he stopped working on it.

Sigh……

 

[Square_peg]

Good way to clamp an axe! And I like your Duff Barrett railroad jack. Peavey handles fit those.