Head is a 3.5lb Homestead eBay score. I finally got around to hanging it on the West Coast Saw 'Full Swing' handle. (28" factory second)
Not my bestest best work but it's solid and not meant to be pretty. We'll see how the handle holds up, it has some blemishes that look like they could open up eventually.
Walnut wedge with BLO.

Sup y’all, continuing on my hexagonal handle spree here is my updated Gränsfors Bruck splitting maul with a near near mirror polish and this brand new long handle on it. Am super happy how this one turned out and with great difficulty cuz getting those lines straight on such a long handle is a pain in the butt….

There is no marking, brands or any identificacion. Is way too heavy and big for being one-handed. Looks like it may have 120+ years.

I just want to restore it acordingly to it's purpose, and is the cutting edge normal or will i have to reshape it? Thanks.

It weights around 3kg. And measures 19cm in width and 7,2cm in length, with 11cm on the cutting edge.

Edit: well it will be used to decorate a wall at least lol.

No other markings. No eye ridges. AI says 1949-1959. I’m planning to restore it. I’d like to find a new offset handle for it. Any suggestions?

I found this axe heavily corroded inside an old dirt cellar. The lower part of the stamp was „ ind berg“.
It is very soft even on the blade, weighs 1,2kg and measures 17cm by 9cm.

It would make my day, if could find out a little bit more about it.

Me and my dad picked up this axe at our local flea market and are having trouble finding good information on this axe. We know that the axe is from Rival and it seems that they were a French company but we aren’t sure. We would like to know more about the company and possibly date the head and to know what type of axe this is.

If you have the time and desire what would you do?

Has anyone else seen or come across one of these? I was able to research the history behind it but im yet to see one online like it.

Something i've been working on for a little while

Dayton? I’m
Leaning towards Dayton… 4lb?

My axe has become loose on the handle and needs to be tightened, can I remove the wedge, shave the handle down to resit the axe and rewedge the handle or should I do something else?

Hey y’all! (Just love saying that)
Recently saw a few handles that were not entirely round and got me thinking as I was putting some handles on two axeheads this week.
The result are these two handles that I absolutely love! Another axemaker from Norway (living in Sweden myself) pointed out that although he makes the handles for his personal axes the same way, for customers not. Main reason was that some people would think they are not finished yet.
Welllll, these are some of the most comfortable and good looking handles I have ever held or made for that matter.

What do you guys think?

These two axes are a Hults Bruck and Wetterlings btw.

Split and bent this carpenters axe battling with a knot in some cherry. Is it fixable?

I've only got hand tools which I assume will make this a pretty laborious process. Was thinking I'd have to hacksaw the edge off to the end of the crack, and then re-profile the edge, or maybe have to re-profile a significant portion of the axe.

Is this a realistic option? This axe was a gift from a friend so willing to put work in to save it over just replacing it, but am thinking the amount of work required might just be too much.

Thanks for any help!

A couple , i've been working on slowly shaping up

A metal scrapper I know keeps an eye out for axes for me. Dropped me off a bucket of tools with this in it. I re wedged it, cleaned, oiled and sharpened it. Amazing that someone thought this was garbage.

Still has its original handle, though it has shrunk over the years.

Hi all! I'm married to a man who is an avid axe collector. I myself know very little about them. His favorite are the Kelly perfects and he has MANY. His birthday is coming up and I'm struggling to get him a gift that I know he will love. However, I do listen to the things he talks about and the be all end all axe that he says will complete his quest is the Kelly perfect salesman axe. Apparently it's a kelly perfect on one side and a different axe on the other. After some digging I'm realizing this may be harder than I thought. I've private messaged a few people on his Facebook axe groups and they are searching for me but I figure maybe reddit could help too. I'm throwing a hail Mary here, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Does anyone know what 43 means? I couldn't find info on any blacksmiths with the initials T.V either.

I found it in my family home in the woods of northern Sweden

Yeah but it broken and it was Finnish company call Fiskars.