u/RobertsFineTools

Finished restoring a few antique tools over this past week and figured some people here might appreciate them.

The Dunlap carpenter’s hatchet was cleaned up, sharpened, and kept on its original handle.

Antique “Warranted Superior” 9 TPI crosscut saw with a Diston-style handle. The plate was cleaned and straightened, teeth were sharpened and set, and it’s cutting well now while still keeping a lot of its age and patina.

Also restored an old hand forged carving/hewing hatchet with a new offset hard maple handle. I offset the handle slightly to improve hand clearance during carving and hewing work. I tried to preserve the forged texture and pitting rather than over-cleaning it.

Also finished up a vintage Collins hatchet restoration recently.

Trying to focus on making these functional user tools while still preserving their age and character instead of polishing everything to death.

I posted them on antique tool brokers if anyone is interested in them . https://www.reddit.com/r/AntiqueToolBroker/s/EvvbkL4O3e

Finished restoring a few vintage hatchets recently and figured some people here might appreciate them.

First is an old hand forged carving/hewing hatchet rehung on a new offset hard maple handle. I offset the handle slightly to improve hand clearance and control during carving and hewing work. The head was cleaned and sharpened while intentionally preserving the forged texture, pitting, and age character.

Also restored a vintage Dunlap carpenter’s hatchet. Kept the original handle on this one and sharpened it up into a solid user-grade woodworking hatchet.

Last one is a vintage Collins hatchet restoration with a shou sugi handle and cleaned/sharpened head.

Trying to preserve age and character on these instead of over-polishing everything into mirror finishes.

They are available in my Etsy shop - https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com

Finished restoring a few antique tools over this past week and figured some people here might appreciate them.

The Dunlap carpenter’s hatchet was cleaned up, sharpened, and kept on its original handle.

Antique “Warranted Superior” 9 TPI crosscut saw with a Diston-style handle. The plate was cleaned and straightened, teeth were sharpened and set, and it’s cutting well now while still keeping a lot of its age and patina.

Also restored an old hand forged carving/hewing hatchet with a new offset hard maple handle. I offset the handle slightly to improve hand clearance during carving and hewing work. I tried to preserve the forged texture and pitting rather than over-cleaning it.

Also finished up a vintage Collins hatchet restoration recently.

Trying to focus on making these functional user tools while still preserving their age and character instead of polishing everything to death.

I posted them on antique tool brokers if anyone is interested in them . https://www.reddit.com/r/AntiqueToolBroker/s/EvvbkL4O3e

All have been sharpened and ready to use , and free shipping on all.

Vintage Dunlap Hewing Hatchet – $87.75 https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com/listing/4507466635

Antique Hand Forged Hewing / Carving Hatchet – $78 https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com/listing/4507459411

Antique Warranted Superior Crosscut Saw – $69.55 https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com/listing/4507597168

Restored Vintage Collins Hatchet – $48.75 https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com/listing/4494672137

Things I made for sale

A2 Marking Knives, dry ice bath treated 61-63 hrc– $45.50 https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com/listing/4501797888

40 inch frame saw 4 tpi - $266.50 https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com/listing/4486051936

Frame Saw hardware and blade kits (no teeth) . $61.75 https://robertsfinetools.etsy.com/listing/4490906172

This went a lot more smoothly than the first time . This time I deburred everything before putting into kiln and was not stingy this time with the heat treat foil. I also used acetone for dry ice bath instead of alcohol this time . The alcohol I used last time was only 70% so had a lot of ice form the acetone all stayed liquid which was nice . 61-63 hrc . O also I made a program on my kiln for tempering A-2 on my kiln so now which was a nice quality of life improvement vs using a toaster oven last time to temper.

Near term goals are to get set up to use liquid nitrogen instead of dry ice. Make a batch of 6 more marking knives and to make a plane Iron out of A-2.