I got this old axe head today. Attachment 11956
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I got this old axe head today. Attachment 11956
Pretty cool. Any idea of the history?
Unfortunately no. Uncle Melvin who flipped homes passed away about 10 years ago. It was found on one of his flips. The handle to head area was elliptical.
The cutting edge was a still sharp.
Man, when you said "old" you wasn't just woofin!
Alan
It looks like an adze.
Alan
A picture of the handle area.Attachment 11957
Well, then it's not an adze. In the first picture it looked like two separate pieces.
Alan
Figured it out. It’s a turpentine box head axe. Makes sense for this area. 1800’s.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthoped...ead-1865443978
That's a really cool piece of History. Excellent find.
Alan
Finding a couple “cat heads “ in the barn should have been a clue. He had all the other tools .
What is a "Cat head"?
It's a hammer that has surfaces on four sides. There are a lot of variations but the basics are the same with four surfaces. They are used in blacksmithing.
Thank you Rick
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/extension/4h...s/catface.html we called them cat heads. They call them cat face.
Thanks Rebel. I love learning stuff. Never been around pine sap collection at all. Very interesting!
Mea Culpa. I thought you were talking about this. These are called catheads as well.
https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/i...a8e8bdd2f2.jpg
“Forbidden “ is all I get Rick. I’d like too see what you have.
it is a Farrier's tool, used by smiths who build horse shoes from bar stock. It is a"flattening" hammer, not much used by modern farriers who buy their shoes pre-made and hot fit them.
google foo cat's head hammer and you should get some hits. As I said, there were all sorts of configurations used my smittys but most had four surfaces on the head.