Anyone Collect Axes & Hatchets?

[muskrat man]

I pulled a couple out of the project box to list on ebay, and just put this one back. I couldn't bring myself to list it since I don't have a completed hewing hatchet in my collection and could use one. It's marked HSB & Co Uncle Sam Chicago ILL. I'll get around to hanging it this fall I guess

[TripleF]

I picked this axe up at an estate sale a couple weekends ago....

COLLINS LEGITIMUS (check out the crown with the fist sticking out of it in the logo part).

[FRJ]

Kaleb and Scott, two very nice pieces there.

[TripleF]

Thanks Joe! That's one I wish I could keep.......but tis not the case!

[muskrat man]

another hewing hatchet, or this one may qualify as an axe. Nearly 3 lb plumb

[FRJ]

Very nice Kaleb.

[Ivoryman]

Cold Steel tomahawks mods

[muskrat man]

Here's a cute little true temper barrel hatchet with the original marked handle. I've had a rough time finding any price reference on these, maybe they didn't make many?

[TripleF]

Check out this gizmo multi tool crate opener.....Made in Germany is the stamp.

[FRJ]

Nice one, Scott. That one is in good shape. They're often abused.
I see them at the flea markets here once in a while.

[TripleF]

Thanks Joe!

[gino]

I was lucky enough to pick this Tru Temper up today at the flea market for $10

[TripleF]

That's a beauty gino! Knice haul dude!

[Ivoryman]

Finished the whole thing, not just heads and hickory. Looks a little better than Cold Steel puts out.

[TripleF]

I usually assume these are those chincy import pieces of crap when I see them at an estate sale, boy was I shocked when I saw it was a Stanley. Very sturdy.

[muskrat man]

craftsman and true temper made them like that also. I think the true temper was called the "jet rocket" or some such

[muskrat man]

Got the o.k from the doctor to start tinkering a bit again and wanted to start out on some unimportant crap first to get back in the swing of things before I start up on customer stuff again since I haven't touched a power tool in a little over 5 months!

I picked up this rixford 2 1/4 lb boys axe that was pretty beat, name was barely legible because they had peened the poll out so much most of the stamp was distorted or gone. I like the hudson bay style axes and wanted one in a shorter handle to use as a bedroll axe in an 18 or 19" handle. I figured once I cut off enough to make it a similar shape to the infamous Norlund hudson bay axes/hatchets that I am so fond of it would be a bit under 2 lbs. It started out 2 lb 2 oz and ended up 1 lb 7 oz which is about perfect for what I wanted. This is a very quality head with a good temper line and you can even see where the forge welded a tool steel bit into the high carbon head, they haven't done that in a very long time. I think I seen on yesteryear tools they were in business from the 1830's to 1950's. Must have made good stuff to last over 100 years!

[TripleF]

Good night......how in the world did you cut that? (jk)

It would take me years with my hacksaw

Knice stufff pal.....very knice!

I'm thinking of hafting this Dunlap (LOVE the ball pein hammer pole end) into a boys axe size...

[TripleF]

Picked this one up Friday......

[orvet]

I have been reading about how you use vinegar to clean axe heads and decided to try it.
I have one similar to the Mann you just posted, but in worse shape. I can read the U.S. and 1945 but can't see what it says before 1945.

I did a one day soak in vinegar and it really took of the rust! Then I used Gojo and steel wool on it.

What do you use to put some color back in the steel?
It doesn't look right as bright steel, but with 70 years of hard use.

[TripleF]

I'm NO expert, but after the vinegar bath, I hit it by hand with a thick wire brush. Kinda gets it between shiny and ugly......kinda like this....

want to post more pics but taking too long....sorry. will try later.

[muskrat man]

Dale, a good cold blue like brownells oxpho blue does a good job of giving the head some color and a bit of protection. The 1 1/2 lb W. Germany boys axe posted earlier in this thread was cold blued with oxpho blue after being sanded down and refurbished. Some choose to paint heads but I'm not fond of that. It looks nice but creates a lot of drag if you actually plan on using it.

Since this is a picture thread here is a pair of council tools. A 3.5 lb pulaski and 3.5 axe on a 28" handle. These cost me a whopping $3 and $2 respectively. I love flea markets

[TripleF]

Hopefully......this time it loads.....

[TripleF]

Just cleaned up my Estwing hatchet today......

[orvet]

A couple years ago a fellow I know at the flea market gave me this little hatchet head. It is 3-3/4” wide and the cutting edge is 2-1/4”; the whole thing with handle only weighs 12.6 oz. The head is so small I have been unable to find a handle to fit it in two years of searching.

A while back Wade (Colonel26), sent me a stick of hickory firewood, cut by his grandfather for his smokehouse. I use the wood to put a handle on a Case loom fixer for Wade. He said I was welcome to the rest of the stick of firewood, so I cut a handle for this hatchet head. I had never made a hatchet handle before, so my efforts were rather crude, although it is functional.

This is another hatchet I picked up about a week ago at an estate sale. It is a Mann True American. I don’t have any rhyme or reason to the axes and hatchets I collect, I just collect ones that appeal to me, or ones that I can repair. I guess I just like to fix things. This one didn't require much except to remove some surface rust.