>>648630>If I want to reuse the handle you can screw into the wedge and lift it out with a hammer.Yep, that should work. I don't reuse handles, so the thought hadn't occurred to me.
>If I dont want to reuse it I will actually saw down the handle to a taper and hit the handle so the head climbs up onto the thinner part and becomes loose then just saw it off.I can see this working as well. Not the way I do it, but there's lots of ways to skin a cat and a skinned cat is always better than a live one.
>>648627Excellent logic there, bub.
>the handle is the same size all the way up and down where it goes into the head>the head cannot, therefore, have a smaller eye at the bottom than the top>because the handle doesn't have to go into the smaller end>and because if the bottom was bigger, or even the same size, the head wouldn't fly off every time you swing it>and because that's a factory handle that hasn't been cut down to fit the eye of its prospective headHere's a pic of my boy's axe after I put the handle on it. I've since fixed that horrible angle, but haven't bothered to take a picture yet. Can't find any brand name, got it at a garage sale for about $5. Took a couple of files to it for a couple of hours, then a stone, then a strop (not really necessary, but it makes the edge pretty and shiny) and put a good convex edge on it. Haven't had to sharpen it in a while, but I also don't use it very often.
