The Old Double Ax Thread

[derwoodii]

i get to tho a few of them each year, one day i might buy one.

 

[rarefish383]

Thanks ol" buddy, I won't forget again. I found my old double throwing ax, it is a Plumb, maybe a boys ax, it has a short handle, Joe

 

[rarefish383]

Derwoodii, in your first pic, that's exactly the position my ax was in when I heard a loud zip/rip sound. I guess with that short handle, the blade was closer to my back and it hooked my shirt, slit it open like a razor. Poor old ax has been sitting on the back deck of my wood shed for 30 years. We moved in here in 1987. All this talk of restoring old blades has me pumped up to see if I can get it back to it's old glory and rehang it, Joe.

 

[derwoodii]

Derwoodii, in your first pic, that's exactly the position my ax was in when I heard a loud zip/rip sound. I guess with that short handle, the blade was closer to my back and it hooked my shirt, slit it open like a razor. Poor old ax has been sitting on the back deck of my wood shed for 30 years. We moved in here in 1987. All this talk of restoring old blades has me pumped up to see if I can get it back to it's old glory and rehang it, Joe.

yeah at the GTG we used to let family kids have a tho until we noticed how close the blade was to the little tacks heads,, uh oh so no more..

 

[rarefish383]

That is a big learning curve, you don't just move your arms forward, you have to straighten your wrists to lift the ax, or you get a shave and a hair cut, Joe.

 

[svk]

Back in the day grandpa's friend was splitting wood with a DBA and cut his back open, I believe it was due to hitting something above him on the swing. I've always preferred a single axe for that reason after hearing that story.

 

[old guy]

That short axe is known as a timber cruiser axe, before there were spray paint cans foresters would carry these lite axes to mark trees with, I have a single bit plumb 26'' that Iv'e had since back in the 50's.

 

[chucker]

That is a big learning curve, you don't just move your arms forward, you have to straighten your wrists to lift the ax, or you get a shave and a hair cut, Joe.

"shave and a hair cut" 2 bit's... or free?

 

[rarefish383]

Back in the day grandpa's friend was splitting wood with a DBA and cut his back open, I believe it was due to hitting something above him on the swing. I've always preferred a single axe for that reason after hearing that story.

I never split with a double, I really never use one at all, except to throw, and look at cause I think they are cool, Joe

 

[rarefish383]

The hatchet I couldn't read is a Plumb, Joe.

 

[abbott295]

I just looked at my similar one. It is a Plumb also.

 

[rarefish383]

Still cleaning the garage and no more ax heads, but found 2 more knives and an old double edge razor. I think when I cleaned out my shed last year I threw all of the newer no name ax and maul heads in the scrap metal bin and cashed them in. On a side note, I went to my friends house to help him clean his garage Monday and he found another old Camillus knife and gave it to me. It's one made for the US Army. They dated them and this is a 1969, Joe.

 

[svk]

There's a Facebook page called "Axe and Woodworking Appreciation" that has guys as fanatical about hand cutting tools as we are about firewood. Worth a join if it interests you.

 

[rarefish383]

I just joined "all about pocket knives", that gives me four forums I have to check before I finish my 5th cup of coffee and have to start doing something, Joe.

OH, I haven't started doing Facebook yet.