Identify an axe

7/24/05, 8:27 PM #1

Jack Guzman from Maine
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Identify an axe

Jack Guzman from Maine

>Can anybody tell me what this axe is called and what it's intended function is?---Jack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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7/24/05, 11:25 PM #2

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(
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Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>It's an ice ax, or in this case hatchet. Probably used in an ice house, once the blocks where dragged up from the lakes/rivers.

Where'd you find it it?

Todd O.

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7/24/05, 11:42 PM #3

Jack Guzman from Maine
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>Hi Todd,

I got it from a vendor at the Freedom flea market right down the road. I love axes and hatchets. As soon as I can find a picture of one of these complete I'm gonna make a handle for it and decorate my shop with it.Maybe I'll go harvest some ice this winter.---Jack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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7/25/05, 9:45 AM #4

Todd Hughes
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>Todd C. was right on to ID, they had a straight handle so you could use either the spike of the edge of the axe.You see them different lentghs but this head looks to be fairly big and probably would have had a handle originaly about 2 ft. long.One thing about these ice axes is that they always have that rounded cutting edge and you will never find one all sharpened up since I don't think they normaly ever got sharpened much if at all.You do see the smaller ice hatchets often being tried to be passed off as Indian Spike Tomahawks and the rounded edge will be ground square and the price tag will have a couple extra 0s tacked on....Todd

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7/26/05, 1:46 AM #5

Jack Guzman from Maine
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Jack Guzman from Maine

>Thanks Todd(and Todd O)I think I got enough info to make a decent handle.BTW that spike end looked too serious to be for turning logs or such work.Ice makes sense.---Jack

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I am a carpenter by trade.Also a handyman/Jack -of-all-trades.I work around my neighborhood mostly helping people keep up their old houses.I have a fairly large woodworking shop in my house where I work with both hand and power tools. At the moment I'm focusing on Windsor chairs building.I will build most anything if needed. I'm always learning,adapting,changing trying to broaden my woodworking skills.I work mostly with hand tools in my shop but will use power if it is a better way to get the desired result. My wife,Donna,and I live in the woods of Maine with our dogs,cats,and birds. We have 5 grown kids and six grandchildren. Woodcentral has been central to my growth as a woodworker. I pass through this place every day.

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