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    Found this where I plant tomatoes in the garden....gotta be early 1900s? No metal detector Click image for larger version

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    SW Connecticut

  • #2
    Nice piece I have found a couple at old house site on my place and ground one down to a Viking throwing ax
    South East Ga. Twin City

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    • redrocks
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      Thanks willjo. Did u try And date it?

    • willjo
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      Mine were just run of the mill ax heads, the house was torn down in 60's so not that old.

  • #3
    Very neat piece, really cool if you could date it.
    Near the PA/Ohio state line

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    • redrocks
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      Thanks pao I'm gonna try to date it....

  • #4
    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+head
    Last 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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    • redrocks
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      Thanks for the links olden...it's only got one bevel..I'll look it up

    • Olden
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      Yeah , couldn't tell by the pic if it was one or two bevels - it definitely is a broadaxe, and used for hewing flat sides onto logs - Nice Find Red.
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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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    • redrocks
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      That's cool a hewing broadaxe thanks olden I'm liking it more and more.... Carpenters axe....now to date it!

  • #6
    Great find, Red. That one has a nice shape to it.
    California

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    • redrocks
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      Thanks Tom...it's growing on me

  • #7
    Now that’s a great find . We actually found an old one and of course wayne refashions it to be usable .

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    • redrocks
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      Thanx Tam ..how'd he redo it. Isn't it better leaving it rusty,?

  • #8
    Cool find Red clean it up a bit it would look good on the wall in the man cave.
    NW Georgia,

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    • redrocks
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      Thanks Glenn .how u doing down there? I can't access my mail or notifications

    • SurfaceHunter
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      I'm fine getting ready to go in and dodge customers in a few minutes.

  • #9
    WTG ! Might be older than you think ! That’s a bad A$$ axe !
    Lubbock County Tx

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    • redrocks
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      Thanks bro I appreciate ya ....I like ur description !!! Found in the yard too!
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