Any Axe or Hatchet Aficionados?

[NeverSeenNorHeard]

I recently found an old hatchet head in my fathers storage shed. It has really bad patina with some rough pitting. I was able to make out the following "B.x Swift" as the makers mark. I can't find much via google on this hatchet head and was hoping someone would be able to tell me more about the item. I need a new hatchet and wanted to put some effort into a piece providing it was worthy. Thanks in advance! 

[Pygmy]

I know nothing of such things, but it sounds like a worthy endeavor. 

 

Good luck, Pilgrim !   May you fare well.

[Trial153]

I have a collection of tactical tomahawk .....

[Lawdwaz]

About 5-6 years ago I bought a Husqvarna hatchet.  Not sure why but I thought it'd be pretty neat for camp fire wood...........it is a very nicely built tool.

 

http://www.vminnovations.com/Product_68696/Husqvarna-13-Inch-Wooden-Handle-Hatchet-576926401.html?rd=gpf_68696&utm_source=ShoppingBranded&gclid=CNut_IO84MQCFdcYgQod2zMA0Q

[Pygmy]

You have got me thinking, NSNH... I have a couple of hatchets and have never checked them for MFG marks or whatever. One of them looks a lot like the Husqvarna hatchet that Lawdwaz posted..I have used it for a lot of little chores, like chopping off heads, wings and feet when butchering poultry and small game and various other chores.

I'll have to check them out for markings.. I think I got them both at yard sales.

[Lawdwaz]

They can be pretty collectible Dan. Mine is made by Wetterlings I believe but certainlly not special although made in Sweden. The Gransforbuks (sp) are pretty nice but damned expensive.

[G-Man]

Clean it up and put a handel on it, the shape of the head will tell you what it was use for, anything that has a makers mark /stamp and not made in China is worth using....

[G-Man]

Sounds like a black smith forged head pretty 1900, here is a good site of major manufactures www.yeasteryearstools.com

Edited April 6, 2015 by G-Man

[Pygmy]

I checked my hacthets and actually I have three.  The one I use the most is a Boy Scouts of America Genuine Plumb.  It is in good shape and has the original handle.  The other two are a Collins and a Dunlap. All are quality American made tools, but the BSA Plumb appears the most valuable..Perhaps I should clean it up and  retire it and use one of the others.

[Setters4life]

Twenty-nine years ago when I moved into my house, I found a stash of old tools in the garage. Many were rusted, some, being old and from an age and day when they made things to last, I brought many of them back to life if they could be useful to me again.

 

One item was an old, rusted axe head in the bottom of a wooden milk crate, I took a wire wheel brush and removed all the old rust. The head was forged, and had a "Plumb" stamp on it. I knew I had something worthwhile. I took all the rust off, and refinished the metal head with cold-blue. I procured a new handle, fit the end in the axe and secured it with Acraglas, gave it a BLO finish, a coat of wax, added a hole at the end for some paracord to wrap around my wrist to keep the axe from slipping. It's sharp enough to shave with. If I change anything when this handle breaks, I'll look for a longer one, with a bit more curve to it.

 

 

Edited April 6, 2015 by Setters4life

[NeverSeenNorHeard]

The old man had a few in the shed. Took them to my place for "the treatment". I also have an older PLUMB axe in a rockaway pattern (pretty impressive piece). I love those Swedish axes and would love to pick one up but other things are occupying my disposable income at the moment. 

[Deleted]

Sounds like a black smith forged head pretty 1900, here is a good site of major manufactures www.yeasteryearstools.com

 

G-Man, I'd never heard of that site, and just checked it out. Lots of good info, including the B.x Swift, thanks.

 

Collins Pt. 1.html

Edited July 31, 2015 by Traditional Archer

[Deleted]

I tried add the page for you NeverSeenNorHeard, but it didn't work. A computer whiz, I ain't.

 

I think you can download it by clicking on it.?

[landtracdeerhunter]

I have a habit picking up old hatchets and little axes on flea markets, garage sale environments. Ones with handles for $5., without sometimes for $2. cut out a nice hickory handle, linceed oil them and install. If I think I have to many, I flea them, making a nice little profit. Sometimes, people just want to get rid of them. There's some nice old ones. They sure don't Mak,em like they use too.

Edited July 31, 2015 by landtracdeerhunter

[landtracdeerhunter]

I picked up hatchet head today. Looked like a nice one so I give $5 for it and a hunting belt buckle. After cleaning it up, inscribed was American Fork & Hoe Company, 1944. Shave down another hickory handle.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

I picked up hatchet head today. Looked like a nice one so I give $5 for it and a hunting belt buckle. After cleaning it up, inscribed was American Fork & Hoe Company, 1944. Shave down another hickory handle.

Frankfort, NY

[landtracdeerhunter]

Know this is an old thread. I picked up a couple of ax heads for $2  on a Flea Market in Medina, yesterday. One reads American Fork and Hoe. The other has Walters on it. Can't tell if it's from Canada or New York. American writing, not French.   I  got to get going making up the right style handles for these heads,I'm collecting.