Broad axe manufacturer

[RTM]

I tried to find something in english and german, but had no luck, and I don't know any swedish wich might have been worth a shot

Using Google translate can help. Translate Axe into Swedish, then use the country correct spellings for the Scandinavian countries, and see what comes up. If you use Chrome, it will try to translate back to English for you.

additional thought, that logo looks like a tree. I tried searching for “DL” tree axe, and unfortunately there is a guy named DL Banaher (something like that) who builds log and timber homes, so he comes up a lot. I just started doing a (-) minus on his last name, then decided sleep was more important.

 

[2oolhound]

You may be onto something RTM. When I was log building we had a german fellow who bought property further up the hwy from us who was a machinist/blacksmith. He stopped by our prefab site regularly and took orders for custom tools we dreamed up and he would make. Deep down many of use log builders wanted to also learn blacksmithing but in my case it always seemed out of my grasp back then. My point is this fellow, DL Banaher could be a blacksmith as well and may be the maker. And I agree the logo does resemble a tree. Cool logo.

 

[nathan_anthony]

Well, I didn't find anything about the maker, but I found an axe head with a vaguely similar looking stamp.
it should arrive this week, I'm gonna have a closer look and compare the two.

ultimately there will be one of the two that I'm gonna use and one will get to retire on the wall.

 

[81CJ-7]

something like this?

sorry for bad quality, samsung camera is not very cooperative

Is the marking raised, or recessed? In the original photo, it looks stamped in. But this photo almost looks like it’s forged in.

 

[nathan_anthony]

it is recessed.
I took a Makro picture with my Lumia and did my best to scrape out the recessed areas with a soft piece of wood, I'm afraid this is the best I can do.

 

[Firebrick43]

Then how do we explain the two shades of gray, or colors in the plane iron I included a picture of? Attached here again. This was a simple Throw it in Evaporust. No acid, no Simple Green, nothing.

If that is a laminated plane iron (i highly doubt it due to the machining of the adjuster which came much later time than laminated irons were used) it would not be laminated so far back. It would be half the distance or less from the slot to the front edge of the iron.

 

[81CJ-7]

Well, I didn't find anything about the maker, but I found an axe head with a vaguely similar looking stamp.
it should arrive this week, I'm gonna have a closer look and compare the two.

Please upload some images of the new one for us. I am very curious!

 

[RTM]

I'm thinking DG rather than DL with that new image

 

[81CJ-7]

I looked through some of my books on vintage/antique tools over the weekend. What I believe you have is called a “cooper’s axe”. A cooper’s axe is a type of broad axe meant to be used with one hand.
larger than a broad hatchet, the cooper’s axe utilized the long cutting edge to shape barrel staves with a slicing action. I also believe that it is American and not European. European goosewing axes seem to almost always have a raised rib between the blade and eye. If I learn anything more, I’ll let you know.

 

[nathan_anthony]

I looked through some of my books on vintage/antique tools over the weekend. What I believe you have is called a “cooper’s axe”. A cooper’s axe is a type of broad axe meant to be used with one hand.
larger than a broad hatchet, the cooper’s axe utilized the long cutting edge to shape barrel staves with a slicing action. I also believe that it is American and not European. European goosewing axes seem to almost always have a raised rib between the blade and eye. If I learn anything more, I’ll let you know.

Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

Here's the one I bought recently.
The logo says "TANNENBAUM"
That's German for Fir or Christmas tree.
It's hard to say if it's of the same origin, but the shape is strikingly similar to the other one.

 

[81CJ-7]

Sure about what exactly?

Well, I wouldn't be so sure about that.

 

[nathan_anthony]

it being american
sorry I didn't crop the quote, that would have been rather difficult on the phone

I might add that the head fits almost perfectly on the spare handle I made for the other one.
a bit snug, but very close