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OK, for you guys that like big heavy stuff. I promised my wife I would get rid of 6 things today. I found 5 maul heads. 3 are old with a thin taper. They cut into a log and don't bounce. One is a new hardware store head, a Fiskers look a like axe, and a wedge. I want $15 dollars plus shipping for the odd long skinny maul head. The rest go in free. I'll use a pre paid USPS box. So I'll keep stuffing things in the box as I find them and get to 70 pounds. If I start to go over 70 pounds I'll pull out the non axe stuff. First PM with an "I'll take it, gets it". I plan on getting as close to 70 pounds as I can.
 
OK, for you guys that like big heavy stuff. I promised my wife I would get rid of 6 things today. I found 5 maul heads. 3 are old with a thin taper. They cut into a log and don't bounce. One is a new hardware store head, a Fiskers look a like axe, and a wedge. I want $15 dollars plus shipping for the odd long skinny maul head. The rest go in free. I'll use a pre paid USPS box. So I'll keep stuffing things in the box as I find them and get to 70 pounds. If I start to go over 70 pounds I'll pull out the non axe stuff. First PM with an "I'll take it, gets it". I plan on getting as close to 70 pounds as I can.
That's a very generous offer. Somebody is going to get a box of treasures!
 
I like a leather wrap. Try a piece of foam hot water pipe insulation then wrap it tight with black electrical tape. You can replace it daily if you need to. Anything you put on it just screems, look, I can’t hit the same spot twice.

hehe! i'm guilty as charged! although to ana extent an overstrike can happen when striking the far side of a round if the split runs oddly.
 
Holy Cow, The middle of June and Santa Neil dropped a gift off in my garage. With so much being delivered now a days. We have 4-5 deliveries a day. I went in for lunch, and when I came back out, there was a package sitting in the middle of the floor I just cleaned up. Since Fathers Day is coming up I figured it was more socks from the kids. I cut and split firewood in shorts wearing Krocks on my feet. Just fancy flip flops. My socks get so filled with saw dust I'm not allowed to put them in the washer, so I just toss them. I bent over to pick them up and threw my back out. Two beautiful vintage heads, Kent patterns.. Thank you much Neil. I will have to commission Clarence to hang them, I couldn't do them justice.

Thanks for asking, every one home is doing well. My daughter just got married back in November and is an Occupational Therapist. When covid hit they didn't want all of the Therapists being exposed, so they drew straws to see who worked with the covid patients. She drew the short straw. So she says. I think she volunteered and just didn't want to tell her Mom. Two weeks ago she tested positive. She had no fever or other symptoms. She gets tested once a week and that's how they found it. A few days later she had cold like symptoms, but never a fever. Shes well now. But, her husband was trapped in their apartment with her, and this week he got it. He had a fever for a couple days and felt worse than Jennifer did. But, he's almost well now. They still have 7-8 days of quarantine before they can go back to work.

Thanks again, one of these days I'm going to find you a Plumb Cruiser Double.

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Yay! I was starting to fear the transatlantic posties had mislaid them. Really glad they arrived and I hope your wife isn't too pee'd that the clearout is in reverse already! As I said in the note, had them ages and been meaning to post, it takes a worldwide pandemic to get it sorted. Oddly wife and i were just saying we currently feel busier than ever despite all that, suspect a lot is nerves....Wife goes in to the maternity ward for them to try and encourage 'bump' to start arrival tomorrow...so I need to get to bed and get a good nights sleep! I can do that now knowing you are well and those 2 heads have arrived. If you haven't worked it out, they are (some) of the 'INCOMING!'........ I said incoming.... just not to me, hehe!

If anybody is interested, those Kent pattern heads are common vintage stuff over here although you won't see new axes that shape anymore. I'm not totally sure but think they were commonly used in hedge laying. the top one is a Gilpin, and IIRC the bottom is an Elwell? or is it a Brades? all 3 are good English makes, but long consigned to the history books....the UK lost/gave up its manufacturing base a long while ago now.

Now fingers crossed the posties will deliver the other bits shortly ;)
 
When I first started collecting axes I was looking for makers marks. I found a big chart with at least a hundred different makers marks. I didn’t make a copy, and have never been able to find it again. If you happen to find a chart copy it and post it here.
 
Was just doing more searches for makers marks. Saw a cool hatchet, so I went to eBay to see if they had one. Scrolling down there was a girl holding an axe head between her boobs. Scrolled down a bit more and there she was again, different top, different axe, same boobs, three different axes, three different tops, same boobs. I wonder if their marketing plan helps?
 
Was just doing more searches for makers marks. Saw a cool hatchet, so I went to eBay to see if they had one. Scrolling down there was a girl holding an axe head between her boobs. Scrolled down a bit more and there she was again, different top, different axe, same boobs, three different axes, three different tops, same boobs. I wonder if their marketing plan helps?

Iv seen them boobs before

Definitely makes me more interesting in getting that head........the axe head. Ya know.


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Last winter my bother-in-law asked if I would add wood to his outdoor burner because he was going to be gone overnight. When I went to fill the stove I noticed a double bit axe head with the handle broken off leaning against the stove. It was badly rusted so I couldn't see any maker's mark. When he got home I told him I could clean it up for him and put in a new handle as I had bought a box of handles at an old hardware store going out of business. He said take it, you can have it.
I took it home, put it on my partially open vise and beat out the broken handle with a big punch. Then I cleaned it up with the wire wheel on my bench grinder.
Much to my surprise a name appeared on the head. Black Raven! Google that to see what those are worth.
I told him about it and said I couldn't keep it but he insisted I keep it. It is now my favorite axe head of the 60 or so that I own. If I knew how I would add pictures but I am old and unteachable.
Thanks for reading my long story.
 
Holy Cow, The middle of June and Santa Neil dropped a gift off in my garage. With so much being delivered now a days. We have 4-5 deliveries a day. I went in for lunch, and when I came back out, there was a package sitting in the middle of the floor I just cleaned up. Since Fathers Day is coming up I figured it was more socks from the kids. I cut and split firewood in shorts wearing Krocks on my feet. Just fancy flip flops. My socks get so filled with saw dust I'm not allowed to put them in the washer, so I just toss them. I bent over to pick them up and threw my back out. Two beautiful vintage heads, Kent patterns.. Thank you much Neil. I will have to commission Clarence to hang them, I couldn't do them justice.

Thanks for asking, every one home is doing well. My daughter just got married back in November and is an Occupational Therapist. When covid hit they didn't want all of the Therapists being exposed, so they drew straws to see who worked with the covid patients. She drew the short straw. So she says. I think she volunteered and just didn't want to tell her Mom. Two weeks ago she tested positive. She had no fever or other symptoms. She gets tested once a week and that's how they found it. A few days later she had cold like symptoms, but never a fever. Shes well now. But, her husband was trapped in their apartment with her, and this week he got it. He had a fever for a couple days and felt worse than Jennifer did. But, he's almost well now. They still have 7-8 days of quarantine before they can go back to work.

Thanks again, one of these days I'm going to find you a Plumb Cruiser Double.

PV9yroe.jpg
Cool heads and glad the cases were mild.
 
Last winter my bother-in-law asked if I would add wood to his outdoor burner because he was going to be gone overnight. When I went to fill the stove I noticed a double bit axe head with the handle broken off leaning against the stove. It was badly rusted so I couldn't see any maker's mark. When he got home I told him I could clean it up for him and put in a new handle as I had bought a box of handles at an old hardware store going out of business. He said take it, you can have it.
I took it home, put it on my partially open vise and beat out the broken handle with a big punch. Then I cleaned it up with the wire wheel on my bench grinder.
Much to my surprise a name appeared on the head. Black Raven! Google that to see what those are worth.
I told him about it and said I couldn't keep it but he insisted I keep it. It is now my favorite axe head of the 60 or so that I own. If I knew how I would add pictures but I am old and unteachable.
Thanks for reading my long story.
Awesome. Do you know how to text pictures? You could text to one of us up post.
 
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