Finished cleaning CW era Hachet. Need help with type of handle to get!!!

[flyinryan2]

Here is the Hatchet I found about a month ago. Can somebody tell me the proper type of handle to get for it. Thanks,
Ryan.

 

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[BuckleBoy]

A wooden one.






















Seriously, no idea on the handle type. Would be nice to see a magazine ad from the same time period to know more. At any rate, Cool hatchet!

 

[WHADIFIND]

How about:



LOL

 

[Valley Ranger]

See: http://sykesregulars.org/equipment/images/misc_items/hatchet02.jpg

Just a simple wooden handle.

 

[materdigger1]

Nice Axe head - would be cool to cut a hickory limb and whitle you one - HH

 

[TheMcs]

hickory

Here's a decent write-up;
How to Restore an Axe | The Art of Manliness

I'm slowly working on rehafting my great-grandfather's Dunlap hatchet. Working the hickory takes time, I go out and give it a few minutes each night. It's relaxing, and nice to know I'll have the hatchet back in service soon.

 

[flyinryan2]

Thank you everybody. I'll try going to Tractor Supply and see what types of "simple" handles I can find for it.

 

[Tnmountains]

That is very similar to the one I dug a few years back. I would use historically correct hickory .

 

[flyinryan2]

See: http://sykesregulars.org/equipment/images/misc_items/hatchet02.jpg

Just a simple wooden handle.

Is that one that you restored?

 

[TheMcs]

That's a nice one Old!

 

[John_Deere]

If you want to use it, I suggest hickory. If you want it to be nice for display, use curly maple. It's more expensive but completely worth it, trust me ! Congrats and HH!

 

[Gunrunner61]

I have two axes that were my great grandpa's and one is a hand made Hickory and the other is Ash, So I would pick one of those if it were me. jmho
A very nice head though................................HH

 

[JohnChase1989]

Very cool!

 

[Thommy]

We took a lot of hatchets off of the Maple Leaf (Civil War shipwreck in the St. Johns River, Florida), and I conserved them all. Every one of them was hickory and had a curved handle, exactly like a modern hatchet. No paint on them that we could identify, just bare wood. Shim wedges were wood, not metal. A few of the hatchets were makred "U.S" was yours?

 

[tigerbeetle]

Have some fun by hitting the outback and finding a downed, nicely weathered (straight) piece of hardwood -- maybe even a downed cedar heart -- and craft you own handle from scratch. It doesn't have to anything near perfect. It offers a true sense of the head's history. Go to YouTube and type in "Making an axe handle."

 

[Dug]

Pics?

We took a lot of hatchets off of the Maple Leaf (Civil War shipwreck in the St. Johns River, Florida), and I conserved them all. Every one of them was hickory and had a curved handle, exactly like a modern hatchet. No paint on them that we could identify, just bare wood. Shim wedges were wood, not metal. A few of the hatchets were makred "U.S" was yours?

Any chance of you putting up a pic of one? I also have some period heads that I would like to hand carve some hickory handles for.

Good question flyinryan2

 

[Thommy]

Sorry I don't have a better picture. This is from a display in the Mandarin Museum, Mandarin, Florida. You might be able to get a copy of one of my drawings that I did back in 1993-1995, which is now part of the collection at the State of Florida Conservation Lab. Here's their address info:
Conservation Lab
R.A. Gray Building
500 S. Bronough Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250
(850) 245-6444