This is my latest aquisition:
http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd481/Weaverofduart/2012-04-18174000.jpghttp://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd481/Weaverofduart/2012-04-18173941.jpghttp://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd481/Weaverofduart/2012-04-18174033.jpgI'm not sure whether I want to restore this one or not. The second pic is of the back and you can see a polished band running the length of the cutting edge. The person I got this off has done that with some sort of sander and it now means that the back is not flat. They have effectively given this axe two bevels instead of one. There are a few chips in the blade which when I take them out will reduce the back bevel but it will still leave too much for the back to be flat. I got a carpenters hatchet from the same person and it took a good 2 hours working carefully with the belt sander to flatten the back so I could do the same thing for this axe. The only problem is that the back bevel is worse or this one and it is a lot larger than the carpenters hatchet. 5 times as long a cutting edge.
I've got some more coming so I think I'll on sell this one to someone who just wants it to hang on the wall. It is a real pitty because it is basically in top condition being free of any pitting. If the previous owner hadn't mistakenly "restored" it it would definitely have been a keeper.
