What is this?

[Nbrackett]

Found this at a flea market this morning. Guy selling it said it was a felling axe because that’s what Hoss used on Bonanza to chop down trees. Haha.

 

[Yankee Josh]

Found this at a flea market this morning. Guy selling it said it was a felling axe because that’s what Hoss used on Bonanza to chop down trees. Haha.

Masting axe I'd say. Where'd you get it??

 

[Hickory n steel]

Found this at a flea market this morning. Guy selling it said it was a felling axe because that’s what Hoss used on Bonanza to chop down trees. Haha.

Hoss used a much broader axe on Bonanza , but certainly similar.

 

[Nbrackett]

Masting axe I'd say. Where'd you get it??

Wasn’t sure if I wanted it bad enough. I’d expect it to be there again next week if I go back. The guy had it in a stack of other axes at a weekly roadside flea market in East TN.

 

[ithinkverydeeply]

Masting axe I'd say. Where'd you get it??

Agreed.

 

[Fmont]

I'd just call it a Kent pattern if it's double beveled.

 

[Nbrackett]

I'd just call it a Kent pattern if it's double beveled.

It is double beveled.

 

[Goose 7279]

Was that the 407 exit fleamarket smoky mountain flea traders ?

Wasn’t sure if I wanted it bad enough. I’d expect it to be there again next week if I go back. The guy had it in a stack of other axes at a weekly roadside flea market in East TN.

 

[Yankee Josh]

I hate to disagree with fmont but it still appears like a masting axe to me. Kent's get broad fast forward of the eye and that is lacking in yours.


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A masting;

And a Kent pattern;
And to my knowledge neither pattern changes whether single or double beveled. It's not that important but I thought I'd make the case for why I think it's a masting axe.

 

[Nbrackett]

Was that the 407 exit fleamarket smoky mountain flea traders ?

No, just a small one on the side of HWY 11 south of Sweetwater.

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

 

[Fmont]

Indeed, I'd agree with Yankee Josh! The masting pattern seems to be more elongate vs a Kent pattern.

The patterns as they appear seem so similar I'd be interested in learning the connection, if anyone knows!

 

[Old Axeman]

crbn- your Biddle Hardware Co. catalog jogged my memory. The Beatty Penn. pattern broad axe, I found a brand new one, original paint and all, in 1968 or 69 in a drawer in the back room of a old hardware store, in it's original location, in the inner harbor area of Baltimore. I bought it, it is still waiting for me to hang it! Ah, the joy of buying axes before they got collectible.

I believe the axe in question is a masting pattern. I have seen just as many double bevel as single bevel.

 

[Square_peg]

I usually see them as double bevel.