It followed me home (Part 2)

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I like the wooden hammers.
 
Agent_H said:
I like the wooden hammers.
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Me too! At one high school where I taught 'Construction Tech' 7-8 years ago there happened to be 4 commercial lathes gathering dust in the shop. As a supplemental project the students were encouraged to bring in pieces of firewood so they could learn about hardwoods (bark and all) and have a go at making something useful from them. The most popular projects turned out to be mallets and gavels. Jointer and bandsaw were efficient at producing blanks and the lathes enabled the creation of heads and handles. Some of the students really took this to heart and produced beautiful stuff, in a similar vein to what you see above. Apple, Ash, Cherry, Walnut, Elm, Hickory and Maple wound up being used in many of these projects. I'd never tangled with blind wedging before (securing a handle into a dead end hole via wedging action as the handle bottoms out) but that technique worked quite well for these.
 
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ManRay said:
I recently picked these up at an estate sale for a dollar each.

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Good score.
You got a couple of jersey's, an either Georgia or north Carolina ( the one that looks similar to the other two ), some form of
Hudson bay, and what looks like half of a broken ice axe.
 
ManRay said:
I recently picked these up at an estate sale for a dollar each.



ETA: Here is the hatchet cleaned up and sharpened on my first handle I've ever made.



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Good job, I thought that could be a PLUMB hatchet now seeing it cleaned up confirms it.
 
This is what followed me home this week. Everything on the table was $150. The $162.5lb swage block was...more. I found that at the scrapyard. Sad that someone scrapped it, glad that the guys at the yard knew to save it. Unfortunately they knew it had value, but at $350 it was still a steal. Also, the axe is a VERY nice Maine axe in great shape with nice original tight handle. I have not put an ID on it yet. The axe, bill hook head and sledge hammer were $5 total.

IMG_20180112_191858 by Justin Lyttle, on Flickr
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My brother surprised me with this hatchet he picked up at a flea market. The only marking I can see on it are the numbers, 68-1 or 1-89. Any ideas who made it?

 
Looks Estwing to me also, my Estwing hatchet has/had the handle stripped off as well and exposed dating embossed very similarly. Sorry I can't find an image of mine to share at the moment. My date code exposed it to be from the 1970's

Great shape your has
 
fishiker said:
My brother surprised me with this hatchet he picked up at a flea market. The only marking I can see on it are the numbers, 68-1 or 1-89. Any ideas who made it?

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from an earlier thread:
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https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/need-help-verifying-model-of-vintage-estwing-hatchet.1242754/

Another example:
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https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/leather-estwing-util-ax-circa-1925-113875525

The linked description says that the stacked leather washers were cut and installed from the side, since they couldn't fit over the bottom end.


An ad from 1928, for the Estwing Util-Ax

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Carpenter - Volume 48 - 1928 - Page 93
 
I have not come across any axes lately but I did find these today.

I like the bucking saw, the handles on the felling saw are great, the felling saw itself is in rough shape.
The one man is not bad, not good either a couple cutter teeth are broken.

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Looks like one of those hatchets out of a cheap knife/hatchet combo. They had black plastic scales. I think it was Imperial.
 
jblyttle said:
I cleaned up this odd duck that I brought home recently. No markings that I can see, so possibly home made. Maybe not. The scales are oak and the rivets are copper. The little hatchet made like a knife weighs 10.75 oz, id 10 "long and has a 2.5" edge. The steel is 1/8" thick.

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this is a Utica sportsman that someone replace the scales on.
The Utica sportsman's had the notch, and we're often just etched for some reason which would be why you see no markings

These were normally sold in combos with a knife like that Imperial H6 fixed blade you sold me a while back.

This is absolutely not an imperial because the imperials had a guard on them to match the H6 or scaler back H7 fixed blade.
 
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