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Nice piece I have found a couple at old house site on my place and ground one down to a Viking throwing axSouth East Ga. Twin City
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It may be older than you think - looks like you've found a small, double beveled broadaxe (hatchet?): they were used for felling trees & joint work as opposed to dressing lumber.
Distinctly and primitively forged, possibly from bog iron, this seventeenth or early eighteenth century axe came in the Abiel Walker (Alna) tool kit and was probably made and used by the earliest settlers in coastal Maine. Its lack of a welded steel cutting edge is a reminder that Maine early settlers did not always have access to high quality English or even American blacksmith made weld steel edge tools. A broad axe (also called a hewing axe) is a short-handled axe that has a long cutting edge intended for squaring up a timber such as might be used in a log house. The cutting edge is normally beveled on one side only.
the double
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...ble-1799942750
single bevel
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...ead-1947335107
restoring an axe head
https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...ng+an+axe+headLast edited by Olden; 03-23-2020, 03:06 PM.If the women don\'t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
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Pic by Eric Sloan (Author, Illustrator)
Your axe would also have had an off-set handle
Venture back into the handmade world of apple butter paddles, hay forks, and other traditional implements with this fascinating and charmingly illustrated book. Its guided tour of folk tools and artifacts from the pre-industrial age examines farm and kitchen utensils as well as devices used by curriers, wheelwrights, coopers, blacksmiths, coachmakers, loggers, tanners, and other craftsmen. Written by a distinguished historian and collector of antiques, this absorbing survey offers informal but accurate depictions of "special tools for every job," from a holding dog and a hauling sledge to reaping hooks, splitting wedges, and felling axes. Scores of pen-and-ink sketches by the author portray simple tools and other items that are ingeniously devised and exquisitely constructed. A valuable textbook for historians, this volume is also a fascinating handbook for all those who love Americana.Last edited by Olden; 03-23-2020, 04:04 PM.If the women don\'t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.
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