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Just did up this DSI 1. The original haft broke during normal use.
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Pretty hard to find heads that show no abuse. I would sure be happy about a Legitimus in that condition.Oh Did this nice old timer up, shame about the mushrooming.
Nope! Old stock, came with the head.Pretty hard to find heads that show no abuse. I would sure be happy about a Legitimus in that condition.
Nice hang on a real nice haft. Is that a House handle?
Here is what I need to rehang or get someone to do. I have little experience rehanging anything but hatchets. And those never last very well .
These are heirlooms or finds at old farm sales in PA and MO.
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Any advice is appreciated. The double bit I would like to see restored as well as the single bit . The hatchet is a Keen Kutter and I would like a handle similar to original. This hardware store handle is not done correctly.
A kindred soul (that'd be Square_Peg, in this case) sent me a vintage Plumb rafting head entirely 'out of the blue' early this year. Straights for dbl bits can be had, sporadically, at local stores but straights for single bits rarely show up at all. Two weeks ago (in ritzy cottage country Muskoka Lakes, Ontario) at a Home Hardware (Village of MacTier to be specific) I accidentally came across a straight splitting maul handle with good lines and nice grain and went forward with re-shaping and re-sizing it. It's not done yet (lots more wood to be spoke-shaved/rasped/filed/sanded off) but that oversize piece of wood did get 'the ball rolling'. The long suffering billet of White Oak that I've been saving (five years now!) for just such an occasion is on the back burner once again.Phantomknives,
I had been thinking of mounting some single bits on straight double bit handles.
I really like that look.
They are inconsistent in the hardness it seems. I think this thread has it covered.junkenstien the jury is still out on Plumb Nationals as to whether the polls are hardened. These often have stamps on the right, high polls with bevelled edges as would be expected of 'rafters'. I was quite excited to get hold of a mostly unused pre-Permabond one (a 3 2) via jblyttle a couple of years ago but a file run over the poll edge did not skate like it should have. The file trick is easier to conduct then is pounding on it with a large ball peen to see if it chips rather than dimples. Have another look.