Edged tool restorations

Very nice fatboy. Can you take a picture from the top of the hatchet looking down when you have a chance? It can reveal how it was made.

Take a look at this video on this thread that was posted here a while ago. It is worth mentioning again since it shows how axes are made by hand with some machinery.

The making of an axe

The hatchet may have been made by a known maker and had a paper label on it when sold.

 

I "restored" this pickaroon by fitting it to a handle, sharpening it and painting it!
For pins I used "spiral pins" which are like a heavy duty roll pin.

 

I'll do that when I get home fishingpol!!! Thanks for the tip!

 

Hey heres that photo you were looking to see!

 

That axe head was probably made in a large press. A hot piece of steel was pressed in a die or multiple dies to shape. The eye looks to be punched out as part of the process. The hammer strikes look to be just errant strikes from setting wedges.

There is a youtube video of the Gransfors-bruks factory that shows a multi station press used to form heads. It is worth a look.

Here is a picture if my brush axe. The axe body was either forged or stamped out and folded over. The bit was forge welded to the body. A trip hammer could have been used to set the forge weld.

 

I believe one of the first strikes on the right side of the press is punching the eye out. Maybe in two stages, smaller then larger punch.

 

Really cool to see that process...... it makes realize several things. One thing is when that was all done by hand its no wonder those smithy's had some strong arms and backs and second is that the fellow in the video looked quite adept at getting the tool in the correct location at the correct time......that would take some learnin.

 

Those two smiths were highly skilled. Their work was very fluid and almost looked effortless.

 

True Temper "Kelly Perfect" @ 1950's. Locally sourced the hickory as a blank, and shaped it into the finished haft in the shop here. Restored this for a graduation gift.

 

That is very nice Walt. I like the flares on that style.

 

Beautiful axe! Nice work.

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I've got a bunch of yardsale heads that I've had for a while , I figured it was time to get at them so here's a couple I've put together over the last few weeks .

A rough forged 1$ hatchet , since, there was a hint of blue paint and it's a well hardened steel I'm guessing that it's a Swede so I used a Hultafors handle .



Here's a 2$ 2lb Hults Bruks , I set it on an ash axe handle that I bought for 1$ .

 

Very nice lines on those.

 

Thats a beautiful axe!

 

thats some badazz axes there man

 

Those are real nice and always great to see.

The area where I live was settled in the mid 1600's. Those would have been standard carry for the early settlers for work and defense. They have such a classic colonial design.

 

Better individual closeups on them axes would be great