Vintage hatchet head with Bocote/Red Oak handle with Ebony liners.

Nice job on the laminated handle, should last a good while.

Nice, got one similar.

Good job.

I've got a wonderful old hatchet handed down from my dear ol' Grampa.

Its on its fourth handle and its third head, but its a nice'n!!

:-)

Buz, you ain't supposed to whack rocks with it. ) I've go two old ones that were in my wife's family. Don't know how old, at least 40's, but they rarely get used nowadays...maybe split some kindling for the stove at the cabin.

Looks great!

George it's all good.

I have it stored with some of my Grandfathers tools.

Its old like yours, believe my Dad said it was an old roofing/shingle axe.

Hey wait atick......missing a z.

Actually, that's a 'Half-Hatchet' with an octagon head and beveled nail slot, probably made sometime between 1923 and 1960. It was most likely made by Plumb or Stanley and commonly referred to as a roofers axe.

Very nice job on the handle!

I have one just like it. Found it in the ceiling of a pouch while remodeling. It was covered in a layer of dust so thick, you could barely see it. Will hold a razor sharp edge too. An old carpenter tried to trade me his new hatchet for the old one and of course, I said no. :)

Half a hatchet? That's what we always called a hatchet. I had to google it to get the different definitions.

The attached photo is of what some would call a plug, but it's a 'socket' to me. You have to be old enough to have seen Laugh-In to know about that.

I think that is a carpenters hatchet as opposed to a shingling. The shingling hatchet is more narrow and thinner with a double bevel with the stricking edge and nail notch. I have both, they were my fathers. The shingling hatchet was designed to split shakes and as such need the double bevel. The carpenters hatchet has a single bevel as it was designed to remove wood.

I cannot show pictures as I do not know how and can't figure it out.

OOps...Plug?

This is called a Swedish Carpenter's Axe, and does look like it's a single bevel. Best I could find at present.

This is called a Swedish Carpenter's Axe, and does look like it's a single bevel. Best I could find at present.

Where do you get the Bacote?

I picked up a hatchet just like that years ago at a rummage sale. Handle was rotted..... GREAT, can't just make a simple handle could ya, now I got another thing to do on my list! Jus kiddin' great job. John

The head to me looks like what we called a Rig Ax made by Plumb....a lot of house framers had rather use it than a hammer, most I've seen originally had a serrated head. I've still got one from my framing days back in the 60's

I think that is a vintage Stanley head.

Yep, that's a roofing hatchet for sure. Makes a good camp tool.

Do you need my address? I'm looking for a good winter backpacking hatchet. ;-)

Looks great! Jawge

"The head to me looks like what we called a Rig Ax made by Plumb....a lot of house framers had rather use it than a hammer, most I've seen originally had a serrated head. I've still got one from my framing days back in the 60's".

I have one of those which I've had for many years. It's on it's second handle and it has a 22 oz. head on it. It has a special place of honor in my work truck!

"Sweet. You handled that well."

I see what you did there....LOL

Carpenters hatchet. A roofing hatchet has a much narrower cutting edge and often movable pins for gauging shingle exposure. A rigging axe has a longer handle and heavy head. Been using this stuff for going on 40 years.

Socket to me, George. Nice hatchet handle and that makes a great tool for the small stuff on building a log cabin.

Technically George, it's a three-prong grounded receptacle. ??

JAS5833..... you are correct. t is called a half hatchet. There are a lot of other names for that tool bu it is still a half hatchet.

Well I think I remember Dad saying that I sometimes did things half-adzed.

Gee with the nail puller slot and all, haven't seen one of those in years, That was from my time, now they use the word Vintage instead of old, I don't mind being called Vintage...Ha!Ha!

The cutting edge was so blunt on those things you could drive a nail with either end...Ha!Ha!

They made good wedges also.

Not putting down your Hatchet, just giving experienced info for anyone interested, they were very handy for a lot of things except chopping wood, unless you did some edge work.

Great find and beautiful job on the handle.

George, this is the grammar police. You need spell check. You mean 'half-axed'. :)

Was a common house hammer in my younger days. Everyone had one.

I personally cut the nail puller side off in a half arc. Then cut the hammer head close to handle. It looks like a tomahawk then. I installed a curly maple handle and made a custom leather sheath to cover the ax end. I use it in camp to drive down tent stakes and chop kindling. Sorry don't have any pictures.

Actually I mean half-adzed, as in adze. But you had to know my Dad. He passed away in 71.

Here's and old Dunlap (perhaps a Sears house brand before Craftsman came along) Not really sure.

Good tool though!

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