Wilson_tree
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Here is an axe I restored. It is a 3.5 lbs Collins double bit that my grandfather used, then my dad used, and my brothers and I limbed and cleared trails with it. It sat in a bucket in the barn for many years until I decided to bring it back. I cleaned the corrosion, filed the edge to get past a few chips, polished it up, and then reshaped and sharpened it. It cuts like a champ now and looks pretty good. BTW, it is hard to find an axe handle less than 36 inches long, so I shortened this one to 30. I am restoring another double bit, a 3.5 lbs Homesteader, for one of my brothers, since I had so much fun doing this one. I also found a source of axe handles, so that will be a lot easier. The same bucket in the barn still has some old single bit axeheads, but they are pretty damaged. Can you hammer a blade back into shape when it has been deformed? Can you just file the heck out of a badly chipped poll, or is the axe too far gone to use? I think some of these axes made it into the bucket in the barn for a reason.
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