Adirondack case guy
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I have several more older hand tools that I want to make handles for, and need info on length and profiles to make them.
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Small wide faced single bit axe. I believe it was used to perfect the sides of hand hewed beams. Notice the offset of the eye in the head and slight curvature in the head.
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Maybe "Miner's Axe" small and has a round eye tapered to the end so the head has to be slid over the top end of handle and lock onto a tapered bottom end of handle.
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A small Adze. how long should the handle be???
The last #4 I presume is a fire forged fishing spear Notice the main shank has an eye forged in it and the U shaped tines have been locked into the eye with tapered gib keys. The thing that puzzles me about this spear is that the top of the shank is rounded and threaded. Perhaps the wood handle had a pocket for a nut???? to hold it tight in the the handle #1
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all comments and info will be appreciated and considered when I fabricate the handles.-----------------Loren
#!
Small wide faced single bit axe. I believe it was used to perfect the sides of hand hewed beams. Notice the offset of the eye in the head and slight curvature in the head.
#2
Maybe "Miner's Axe" small and has a round eye tapered to the end so the head has to be slid over the top end of handle and lock onto a tapered bottom end of handle.
#3
A small Adze. how long should the handle be???
The last #4 I presume is a fire forged fishing spear Notice the main shank has an eye forged in it and the U shaped tines have been locked into the eye with tapered gib keys. The thing that puzzles me about this spear is that the top of the shank is rounded and threaded. Perhaps the wood handle had a pocket for a nut???? to hold it tight in the the handle #1
all comments and info will be appreciated and considered when I fabricate the handles.-----------------Loren