My Father's Ax
Today I have mainly been fitting a new hickory handle to my Father's ax, and touching up the edge for sharpness. Of course it would have been cheaper and easier to buy a new one but I was taught how to swing an ax with this one, a skill very few people seem to have, and even with a new handle it is still his old ax, and I have some work for it planned.
(Axe with an e is some god-damned frenchification by effete Cambridge graduates and bloody spell checkers.)
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M fathger's ax....
I've had to replace the handle three times, and the head once....
Posted by: Larry Sheldon | December 18, 2009 11:17 PM
So many fine points in two sentences. [Applause]
Posted by: Tom Paine | December 19, 2009 2:58 AM
My octogenarian father recently made me a saw bench.
Posted by: bill | December 19, 2009 12:14 PM
A good axe is a pleasure to use. Good to hear that a well looked after tool will stay in service for years. Quite amazing though is the number of seriously blunt ones.
Posted by: Michael | December 19, 2009 4:56 PM
"Ax" without the "e" is the New York idiom for "ask". It must have an "e" at the end. French or not. Sorry.
Posted by: Kim du Toit | December 20, 2009 8:09 PM
A tool like that you keep.
Preferably forever, passed on.
Posted by: Firehand | December 22, 2009 3:41 AM