Nah , don't bother cleaning or reseting the head , just send it over to me and I'll double your money plus send you a banana box of finely chopped kindling .
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Nah , don't bother cleaning or reseting the head , just send it over to me and I'll double your money plus send you a banana box of finely chopped kindling .
I stopped by the local fleet supply and they significantly reduced their stock of replacement handles. For axes they now only stock standard eye and DBA, 36” handles. Nothing for boys axes or hatchets.
this ones a bit big for me
Now that's an Ax !
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Very cool pic you got. Will definitely have to look the place up. Thank you for sharing.
Found this while cleaning the pole building today. It’s pretty heavy but with the pointed tip it’s hard to judge the exact weight. Looks to be the same size poll as my 16#
having finally got the saw out for the first time in 6 months (yes, i know, i@m in danger of having to forfeit my scroungers card again!) I got to do this.
Bit of an experiment this. One bucket of lovely smelling English oak chips/noodles, 2 axe heads (buried), added some water to dampen and its now stored away....we will see what has happened in a week. I'm hoping for a nice blackening from the tannic acids, but who knows.
Bit of an experiment this. One bucket of lovely smelling English oak chips/noodles, 2 axe heads (buried), added some water to dampen and its now stored away....we will see what has happened in a week. I'm hoping for a nice blackening from the tannic acids, but who knows.
I found a hatchet head in a drawer out in the garage last week along with a shingling hatchet with a messed up handle and 15 nails in the eye. I ordered some handles from House Handles that showed up friday and spent the weekend working on them. About 2 days were spent thinning the hatchet handle, the head only had a little mushrooming to take down. Yesterday I cut out some wedges and this is what I managed.
Today I finished up the shingling hatchet I got an octogonal handle for, just to try one out. This one I think the handle is tilted a bit forward on the handle and I had to put it way down on the shoulder to get the head to cover the kerf but I got it finished.
That shingling Hatchet, (or Carpenter’s Axe as Vaughn & Estwing Call Them), Sure is Nice.
I thought and adze had a long cutting edge? Maybe regional terminology is different.
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Sharpening ax heads/adzes, etc usually involves massive amounts of red liquid pouring from the stubs of what were once upon a time my fingers. If anyone would like a lesson or three in what not to do to sharpen anything, I'm very reasonably priced and The world's leading expert.
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Hey guys. I have an old adze and broad axe that I have never used and probably never will. Anyone interested for a reasonable price? Just looking to clean out the shed a bit more.
I’m really liking this Ospho stuff. May need to get more.
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I have two different brands of it but I think I threw the one bottle away. Let me check.
This is the stuff. It’s a dark green color.
