The axe thread
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stikine
Treehouser
Not to rain on the parade David but the grain orientation on the new handle is not in your favor. Nice hang otherwise.
Burnham
Woods walker
There is that. Good handles can be a challenge to find.
flushcut
TreeHouser
Amen!
Last time I was in need of a handle I scored. Three handles that were near quarter sawn, even ring growth, and tight grain. I was tickled pink, it’s the little things in life lol.
Last time I was in need of a handle I scored. Three handles that were near quarter sawn, even ring growth, and tight grain. I was tickled pink, it’s the little things in life lol.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
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It’s 45°. Close enough. Handle I broke was perfect and broke way too easy. Some axe heads I respect say grain doesn’t matter. I think it matters a little, not a lot. $15 handle is disposable. Probably gonna get broken…and perfect grain wouldn’t prevent it.
Burnham
Woods walker
I guess we can live with having a different take on the subject, David 
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While I have broken a maul handle, once...I have never broken an axe handle in all my years of working with axes. My wedge driver is over 40 years old, on the original handle. My boy's axe is over 60 years old, original handle. My father's axe (a thread somewhere
) is older than I am, still on the original handle though that one is a bit bunged up just under the head on the cutting side.
.While I have broken a maul handle, once...I have never broken an axe handle in all my years of working with axes. My wedge driver is over 40 years old, on the original handle. My boy's axe is over 60 years old, original handle. My father's axe (a thread somewhere
) is older than I am, still on the original handle though that one is a bit bunged up just under the head on the cutting side.
Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
I sheared the handle off my scoring, joinery axe. Broke clean across right at the head. I've never seen that before.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
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Few of us mere mortals have your accuracy 😁I guess we can live with having a different take on the subject, David
While I have broken a maul handle, once...I have never broken an axe handle in all my years of working with axes. My wedge driver is over 40 years old, on the original handle. My boy's axe is over 60 years old, original handle. My father's axe (a thread somewhere
Burnham
Woods walker
You speak the truth .
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Dave Shepard
Square peg, round world.
3 1/2 pound Collins Legitimus. My favorite axe. My handles get reduced to about 5/8"x1-1/8". One minute of chopping with a standard handle, and the shaving horse, draw knife, and spokeshave come out. The sledge handle is a new 8# that was halfway through driving it's first wedge when it sheared clean off.
An assortment of aluminum felling wedges.
An assortment of aluminum felling wedges.
flushcut
TreeHouser
I had that happen to me with a nearly brand new Collins rafting ax I got from Bailey’s. 28” straight handle sheared clean off just like that. But I think it only lasted like five trees. It was a bummer but the handle I hung is golden. My current wedge beater is a nice five pound Plumb.
Burnham
Woods walker
No reason for that break to have happened that I can see. I bet you hurt with that sliver.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
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It's hard to tell but I clipped the top edge of the face. It was too low, I was too high, the face was too deep, head too heavy and handle too long. I didn't get a shock or sting in my hands though, it didn't seem like enough to break it, hence my initial unbelief.
Burnham
Woods walker
You are hard on axes, my friend .
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treebogan
Treehouser
That Junk shop looks amazing!
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
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Photos workaround. I had better things to do tonight but a customer gave me her dad’s rusty old maul this morning and someone else gave me a double bit and maul handle they had bought for it a while back. Decent grain and only a little bend to it 😆
