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| Adam |  Foot adze handleMarch 3rd, 2007 10:25 PM March 3, 2007 Foot adze handle I finally found a replacement foot adze handle at the swap meet today. I have at least one adze head that has been in need of a handle. But, these have not been available in CA hardware stores for many years now. I don't know why. They have all sorts of other esoteric wooden replacement handles still for sale. Just nothing for a Carpenter's foot adze. Single-bevel broad hatchets are still commonly available, with drawknifes special orderable. The foot adzes have almost gone away. The only thing is the handle length and adze head hanging angle have to be matched to the tool's individual user. |
| Randal | Woodcraft, Ebay, etc March 4th, 2007 10:46 PM While they aren't local, maybe, find an area their logging, (no don't go try to chop down a redwood Adam)... http://www.woodcraft.com/family.aspx?FamilyID=251 Or this seller on Ebay: hillbillybassplayer |
| Adam | Funny story April 17th, 2007 09:38 PM April 17, 2007 Funny story Chop down a Redwood tree. That's a good one. My wife and I are planting what will some day be a small grove of Redwood trees in the mountains. My parents lost a huge Redwood in their back yard, while I was living with them. Never found that sprinkler head that the Redwood tree limb "drove over 8 feet into the ground". My wife and I later planted a ring of four Redwoods around where the old three-footer (diameter) stood. They used to sell almost as many different pattern axe heads as hammer heads. Now, there seems to be a single-edged limbing axe, a splitting maul, and a double-edged felling axe. The double-edge axe, while convenient with its two available edges, is not a particularly safe tool for the occasional "logger". I am looking for the slimmer patterned and sharpened, single-edged felling axe. Although European versions can be had new, approaching $100, I'm holding out for a nice old US made pattern. Maybe an old Collins axe? They're very easy to spot, because of their much narrower head design. In case you are wondering, there are six inch diameter trees on the property I tend, that need occasional "attention". "Isn't an axe dangerous?" "Compared to the kick-back of a chain-saw... eh... not as." |
| Adam | Found single edged October 10th, 2007 03:21 AM October 10, 2007 Found single edged I found that single edged (bit) axe I posted about. It's at my store, sold as a Craftsman Axe! It is just as gracefully curved and with the thin profile of the double-edged axes, both in a tree felling profile. The single bit axes, up to this year, have all been heavier pattern "limbing" pattern axes. The only draw back is it has a yellow plastic handle. But, for $24.99 it looks like a real good prospect for use. If the handle ever breaks I can... replace it with a wooden handle. You thought I was going to say return it, didn't you? :) It just needs a little "sharpening" though. I got my 2 inch Craftsman bench belt sander and two kinds of axe honing stones (round). The large diameter of the two honing stones, both Carborundum, has a fine grit side that is not matched by the newer (smaller) axe honing stones. |
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