Axe, Saw and Hawk lust! Pictures of the hottest tools in your collection...

[Red]

we want your glamor shots, AND your dirty use shots here!! post em up!

[upthecreek]

I'll get this party started!



My favorite little modded hatchets.

Creek

[Red]

those look great man! ill see if i can get some pics of my hawk today, if the rain holds out

[upthecreek]

Creek

[Red]

lookin good

[Gurthy]

Nice collection Creek!

Everybody should have a different axe for every day of the week!

[Remo007]

Very Cool UTC!!! You are opening up a whole new dimension for me!

[Red]

man creek, dont all those rivets get expensive?

[Zeus]

I need to get off my butt and go take some tomahawk pictures. Maybe one day this week if I can get away long enough to go someplace picture worthy.

[upthecreek]

I could post 1 a day for the next 6 weeks

these are American Axe & Tool



Creek

[Zeus]

I could post 1 a day for the next 6 weeks

these are American Axe & Tool



Creek

So what do they call the style of the smaller one in this picture? My grandparents had one in with the garden tools and I remember chopping on tree roots with it as a kid.  I thought it was super neat that it had a hammer poll on it. I guess the notch is for pulling nails?

[upthecreek]

Some folks call them carpenters hatchets, shingling hatchets, I call them hammer hatchets. I also call them harder to get your hands on. I smile sometimes when folks are surprised I cut them up. My feeling is if it needs a little mod to make it better for today, so be it. I try not to get too sentimental.

[Zeus]

I wish I'd remembered to snag that one from my grandparent's house when I moved. (I do get sentimental, lol!) But it was ground down way short. It must have been sharpened on a bench grinder so it lost a lot of material from the edge quickly.

I like those little hawks you made by modding them though. They look like they would swing a little faster and be more handy.

[Kep]

Few of mine

This is an old Kentish pattern hatchet i rehelved, the helve was hand carved from Ash (Fraxinus excelsior), i have no idea how old the actual head is, but i know it sat in may parents shed for 40 years



Gransfors Wildlife



Plumb USA Hatchet i picked up at a local show for pennies





Gransfors





Gransfors Mini Hatchet



Gransfors Wildlife Hatchet



Gransfors SFA



My latest

Hans Karlsson Bowl Adze



On top of these i have some beater axes (Amtech), a cheapie axe that is surprisingly good, from our version of Home Depot, and a couple of big old felling axes, one is an Elwell that im going to do up one day, the other, is an American Felling Axe style that i can find no makers name on, again, these are donkey's years old

[Kep]

Of course these types of thread tend to focus on metal axes, so how about somthing different.



Flint hand axe, approx 250,000 years old that was found locally to where i live, this particular one was shown to me when i paid a visit to one of our small local museums to study the flint tools, the Curator went and got this out of storage so i could have a look at it, but the best one is this



dated to 485,000 years old and again found locally, and yes, i got to hold it

[Dano]

Kep your axe masks are awesome!  That adze looks quite handy and the flint tools are just too cool!!

What length is the adze handle?

[Kep]

Kep your axe masks are awesome!  That adze looks quite handy and the flint tools are just too cool!!

What length is the adze handle?

Cheers Danno, the handle on the Adze is about 7" in length, measured from the bottom of the head

[Gurthy]

dated to 485,000 years old and again found locally, and yes, i got to hold it

Paleo tools are awe inspiring... especially after one realizes the tremendous amount of skill and knowledge required to make good tools. I struggle to get a passable knapped edge on anything in my electrically lighted garage in the summer.... imagine the conditions 485,000 years ago!

I've handled medieval manuscripts and was impressed with the history in those objects, and I can only imagine the sense of connection with our prehistoric ancestors one would feel  handling those stone tools.

Thanks for sharing!

[Kep]

dated to 485,000 years old and again found locally, and yes, i got to hold it

Paleo tools are awe inspiring... especially after one realizes the tremendous amount of skill and knowledge required to make good tools. I struggle to get a passable knapped edge on anything in my electrically lighted garage in the summer.... imagine the conditions 485,000 years ago!

I've handled medieval manuscripts and was impressed with the history in those objects, and I can only imagine the sense of connection with our prehistoric ancestors one would feel  handling those stone tools.

Thanks for sharing!

I live not that far away from some Neolithic Flint Mines and to this day i find Neolithic scrappers and flakes in the garden, last one i found was dated to be 6000 years old, it blows my mind to think that someone 6000 years ago made and used this and here i am all that time later holding the same tool, i dont care what anybody says, you get a connection with the past with things like that, let alone something nearly half a million years old, i wonder how many of our present tools will be around in half a million years time?

[upthecreek]

Good stuff Kep, Primitive tools are really cool. I'm liking the leatherwork too!

[Kep]

Good stuff Kep, Primitive tools are really cool. I'm liking the leatherwork too!

cheers chap

[Red]

wow kep! i never knew you had such an axe fetish!! i too LOVE stone tools, i have an arrowhead i found a long time ago. i never took it in to find out how old it was. and dont feel bad Gurthy, i cant knap to save my life!!

[Kep]

i love a good axe me , the Plumb i use all the time, im led to believe that Plumb USA hatchets are quite a rare find these days?

[Red]

creek is the man to talk to about axes, i have no idea whats hard to find with them!

[Zeus]

Yep knapped stone tools are fascinating. I had the privilege of helping out on an excavation a couple of years ago and found a few beads and a projectile point while screening dirt removed from the excavation. Of course everything was cataloged and photographed and all that jazz.

[upthecreek]

Plumbs are not too awful rare, ones in as good of shape as yours Kep...may be (nice axe bro). They were produced during a time when "made in the USA" really meant something. Here are a couple I had handy.



Creek

[Remo007]

Wow!!! Some Heavy Duty Bladage showing up here, and I'm loving it!!! Never knew Axes came in SO many Variations!

[upthecreek]

lets play "who's the axe maker" the winner gets...nothing





Creek

[Dano]

Creek, I'm going with Collins for the axe and Norlund for the hatchet.

[upthecreek]

they are of the same manufacture

[Remo007]

lets play "who's the axe maker" the winner gets...nothing





Creek

How 'Bout if I just Drool???!!!

[Red]

they are of the same manufacture

look like wetterlings to me?

[upthecreek]

Both are Ceggas 

[Red]

Both are Ceggas 

damnit! 0-1.. maybe next time

[Red]

my trail hawk 

[madmax]

Nice job on that, red.  Did you do the kydex?

[Red]

Nice job on that, red.  Did you do the kydex?

i did not. this whole rig was gifted to me by trentu, ill find out who made it though all ive done to it is bring the edge to my standard of sharpness.

[PetrifiedWood]

Wow that's a sweet trail hawk! I need to do the burning on the haft myself. The kydex is cool too.

[Wilderbeast]

Nice job on that, red.  Did you do the kydex?

i did not. this whole rig was gifted to me by trentu, ill find out who made it though all ive done to it is bring the edge to my standard of sharpness.

That hawk was so sharp the picture just cut me. 

[Red]

Nice job on that, red.  Did you do the kydex?

i did not. this whole rig was gifted to me by trentu, ill find out who made it though all ive done to it is bring the edge to my standard of sharpness.

That hawk was so sharp the picture just cut me. 

there is no denying that it is sharp its just as sharp as any knife out there.

[Wilderbeast]

Any possibility of a tutorial for getting an edge like that?  I have one that cuts just slightly better than a butter knife.

[Red]

Any possibility of a tutorial for getting an edge like that?  I have one that cuts just slightly better than a butter knife.

i could do that, but unless you have a belt grinder its gonna be tough to follow i can gladly make yours like that if you wanna ship it to me

[The Infidel]

Any possibility of a tutorial for getting an edge like that?  I have one that cuts just slightly better than a butter knife.

i could do that, but unless you have a belt grinder its gonna be tough to follow i can gladly make yours like that if you wanna ship it to me

Free sharpening service too? Ive got a whole mess of stuff you can do. LOL

[The Infidel]

Just got this CT boys axe yesterday. Had to start playing this morning.
 
 
 
 
 
 

[PetrifiedWood]

That cleaned up real nice!

[Kep]

my trail hawk 

Thats gorgeous, ive been after one of these for ages, but I refuse to pay in Pounds Sterling what you guys pay in Dollars, these run for approx $50-$60 over here + shipping, absolute rip off.

[PetrifiedWood]

Wow, that's a hefty markup!  It's probably the customs tariff or something that drives up the price. I shipped a knife to Canada a while back and customs charged my customer $40.00 to get it out! If you do everything "by the book" it's prohibitively expensive.

[Wilderbeast]

Any possibility of a tutorial for getting an edge like that?  I have one that cuts just slightly better than a butter knife.

i could do that, but unless you have a belt grinder its gonna be tough to follow i can gladly make yours like that if you wanna ship it to me

I truly appreciate the offer, a belt grinder is easy to get ahold of, the skills to use it are what I lack.  PM on the way.

[Tomjones]

Here are my two favorites, Gransfors and a raven cruiser.

[rogumpogum]

Thats gorgeous, ive been after one of these for ages, but I refuse to pay in Pounds Sterling what you guys pay in Dollars, these run for approx $50-$60 over here + shipping, absolute rip off.

If, by odd chance, I were to mail one across the pond... Customs slip marked "camp axe" - would you have to pay some sort of fee on that, or..?