kBob
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In the shingling hatchet thread I mentioned picking up a couple of hatchets at a yard sale last year. The other went to the barn and was even more out of sight out of mind than the shingling hatchet, but again looking for a hammer I noticed this handle. I was putting up nails in the barn to run a hay bale string across several up rights for my daughter to hand more horse show ribbons from ( minor Daddy brag there).
Anyhow it had a blue painted head at one point, worn off the forward part now. On onside it reads "MADE IN SWEDEN" and on the other "1 1/4" the only other marks are the hole in the butt of the handle ( I plan to attempt to line it with a bit of copper pipe) and the handles on both sides have impressed diamond shapes in a regular pattern that looks like some one laid a heavy wood rasp on the handle and smacked it with a hammer or some such.
Any idea what I got?
Anyhow it had a blue painted head at one point, worn off the forward part now. On onside it reads "MADE IN SWEDEN" and on the other "1 1/4" the only other marks are the hole in the butt of the handle ( I plan to attempt to line it with a bit of copper pipe) and the handles on both sides have impressed diamond shapes in a regular pattern that looks like some one laid a heavy wood rasp on the handle and smacked it with a hammer or some such.
Any idea what I got?