Help with ID of a little axe head

[BrianS]

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

[Eric Krewson]

Meat tenderizer?

[Marc St Louis]

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

[Stoker]

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

[dylanholderman]

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

[BrianS]

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.

[Stoker]

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

[dylanholderman]

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. 

[Hawkdancer]

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

[BrianS]

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

[Stoker]

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

[HH~]

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~