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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: BrianS on December 21, 2020, 07:59:09 am

Title: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: BrianS on December 21, 2020, 07:59:09 am

I picked up this little axe head and I am in the process of putting a handle on it and cleaning up the head. I am puzzled as to the purpose of the grooves? Hoping somebody might know more about it.
Thanks in advance,
brian

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: Eric Krewson on December 21, 2020, 08:03:50 am

Meat tenderizer?

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: Marc St Louis on December 21, 2020, 08:16:28 am

I've seen those up here, don't know what they are called but the ones I've seen are a combination of axe and hammer

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: Stoker on December 21, 2020, 08:23:24 am

Framing hatchet. Piece work framers used to use them. hammer and wedge.
Thanks Leroy

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: dylanholderman on December 21, 2020, 08:24:25 am

Looks like a roofing hatchet (at least that’s what I’ve seen them called)

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: BrianS on December 21, 2020, 08:29:07 am

Thanks Everyone.
This strange little hammer was with the little hatchet head. Not sure if the two are connected in some way or if it was just with it when i picked it up. The little hammer looked to me to be more of a metal shaping tool but I really have no idea.

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: Stoker on December 22, 2020, 08:23:54 am

Quote from: dylanholderman on December 21, 2020, 08:24:25 am

Looks like a roofing hatchet (at least that’s what I’ve seen them called)

 Doesn't have the gauge set for spacing shingles. Knurls to aggressive, made for setting the spikes. Might be possible, a lathers hatchet. When they used the stick lathes.
Thanks Leroy

The other one Brian.. I have no idea. Can we have a pic of the face. Might give a clue

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: dylanholderman on December 22, 2020, 08:44:25 pm

Stoker i'll take your word for it as you seem much more knowledgeable than me.
i'm a welder by trade so my knowledge is limited. 

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: Hawkdancer on December 23, 2020, 12:30:28 am

Weren't stick lathes about 1/4"?  It may well have been a lather's hatchet!  But that is a W.A.G. On my part!  I remember seeing lathe and plaster work when I was a kid, but not the lathe making!
Hawkdancer

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: BrianS on December 23, 2020, 07:12:40 am

Thanks again for the replies.
Here is a picture of the face on the other one.

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: Stoker on December 23, 2020, 08:26:58 am

Brian. Honestly no idea. Meat tenderizer I guess

Dylan. I been swinging a hatchet for 40 years.

Hawkdancer. It is for installing the lathes, not for making them. They used to cut the ends of the sticks with the blade end.

Thanks Leroy

Title: Re: Help with ID of a little axe head
Post by: HH~ on December 25, 2020, 10:57:51 am

Sure looks like a Shake hammer my grandfather used. That fat nails they used were no issue with that hammer face. Later ones had a spacer and hook.

He had Slate roof hammers as well. Had a deal to move/alter the nail hole in slate shingle then set the nail without busting the slate.

HH~