What did you rehang today?

halfhatchet from gben with an old handle from my grandfather with a sheath that ive made.
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My maul finally broke, so I re-profiled a bit before putting it onto a new to me $1 NOS handle. It's a Stanley (USA) 8lb head on a 28.5" handle. I'm going to try to make no metal wedge work until it doesn't.



 
jblyttle said:
My maul finally broke, so I re-profiled a bit before putting it onto a new to me $1 NOS handle. It's a Stanley (USA) 8lb head on a 28.5" handle. I'm going to try to make no metal wedge work until it doesn't.
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It should hold up OK for you. If it does come loose (and you can remove the haft) then next step is a wood cross wedge such as COTS does. Reprofiling blades on splitters is a situation where I am personally thankful that electric angle grinders exist; sometimes you have to remove quite a bit of material going back 2-3 inches in order to come up with some sort of decent tip angle that doesn't routinely 'bounce out' of a strike.
 
I refurbished my Klein-Logan froe handle with copious amounts of BLO, tuned its edge back up and stuck the handle back in it.



The handle was extremely weathered and I wasn't sure about reusing it. It soaked up so much BLO that it got really heavy and turned black. I love it and am glad I decided to save it.




My Klein-Logan/Wooding-Verona 4# single jack got a new haft. Hung it on a 16" haft yesterday.



Half heart wood.



Half sap wood. It is getting put back into action on my jobsites. We will see how this haft holds up to hard work.




I finally got around to cleaning up the blemished haft and hanging my 6# ACME railroad spike hammer today.



I cut it down to a 30" haft.



I can now cross these three off my project list.
 
smith357 said:
Played around with this rusty old thing,
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WTH. Pitted old thing. Might as well have some fun with it. I just cringe when I see people doing that to good axes.

Of course with the very short eye the handle won't stay on it for long. But for a light duty carver that could be a very good axe.
 
CedarEater said:
I refurbished my Klein-Logan froe handle with copious amounts of BLO, tuned its edge back up and stuck the handle back in it.

The handle was extremely weathered and I wasn't sure about reusing it. It soaked up so much BLO that it got really heavy and turned black. I love it and am glad I decided to save it.

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It's amazing what several heavy coats of BLO will do for a badly weathered haft. You can literally feel the strength coming back to the wood with each coat. I brush it on weathered hafts. And slather it on the end grains where it soaks right in.
 
Square_peg said:
It's amazing what several heavy coats of BLO will do for a badly weathered haft. You can literally feel the strength coming back to the wood with each coat. I brush it on weathered hafts. And slather it on the end grains where it soaks right in.
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I just stuck the end of this handle in a bucket of BLO and flipped it to soak the other end every couple days for over a week. I also sanded and slathered the rest of the handle twice a day for a few days, maybe a week, until it would only take once a day for a few more days. It took about 2 weeks before it was fully saturated.
 
Awesome axe, but I don't think that it's a rafting pattern. It looks like a Dayton that maybe had the poll rounded a bit to repair some minor mushrooming. Whoever did it did a nice job.
 
jblyttle said:
Awesome axe, but I don't think that it's a rafting pattern. It looks like a Dayton that maybe had the poll rounded a bit to repair some minor mushrooming. Whoever did it did a nice job.
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The poll is beveled and hardened. The bevels just aren't as pronounced as they are on some others
 
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