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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: john k on September 14, 2013, 04:00:39 PM

Title: hatchet
Post by: john k on September 14, 2013, 04:00:39 PM

Seems to me that since shingles are wood, and this is a shinglers hatchet, is ok, right?   This is the smallest one I've ever seen, and the price was a near giveaway.  PLUMB in nice easy to read letters.  Is just under 5 inches long.

Title: Re: hatchet
Post by: rusty on September 14, 2013, 04:56:01 PM

With 2 nail pullers?
For the guy that misses a lot? LOL

Title: Re: hatchet
Post by: mikeswrenches on September 14, 2013, 05:23:41 PM

I think these little guys were called lathing hatchets.  Notice how the rear portion with the blade is lower than poll so that when you were nailing near the ceiling or wall, the rear portion of the blade wouldn't mark the surrounding surface.

I would guess that the nail puller on the upper portion of the blade is to pull nails that are close to another surface, such as a wall or ceiling.

Mike

Title: Re: hatchet
Post by: Branson on September 15, 2013, 10:54:35 AM

If you do an internet search for shingling hatchet, you'll get hundreds of pictures of lathing hatchets.  Pretty senseless, but there it is.  The narrow blade is designed for cutting laths.  Shingles are wider, and since you don't want to have them split when you cut them with a hatchet, so is the blade of an actual shingling hatchet.  A half hatchet will do, but a real shingling hatchet looks like this.  (Along with the claw hatchet, the shingling hatchet was the first mass produced hatchet -- circa 1845)

Title: Re: hatchet
Post by: rusty on September 15, 2013, 11:55:40 AM

But I can understand the confusion, there is some crossover....

Title: Re: hatchet
Post by: OilyRascal on September 15, 2013, 12:01:21 PM

The thread begs confirmation on my part for a hatchet I've struggled with for weeks.  I have a lathing hatchet?

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG6347_zps8206b8a4.jpg) (http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/alphinde/media/Tools%20Talk/CIMG6347_zps8206b8a4.jpg.html)

(http://i1154.photobucket.com/albums/p534/alphinde/Tools%20Talk/CIMG6348_zps0a99636e.jpg) (http://s1154.photobucket.com/user/alphinde/media/Tools%20Talk/CIMG6348_zps0a99636e.jpg.html)

Title: Re: hatchet
Post by: scottg on September 15, 2013, 06:06:06 PM

Yes lath hatchets.
  But between you n me they pound asphalt shingles just fine and dandy.
I like mine better than a modern roofers hatchet (I have 2 of those too). Its lighter.

 An ad from Underhill edge tool?
 For heavy duty timber work, ships bridges etc etc, Underhill was just the quill!
   Some other companies polished their tools brighter for indoor cabinet work,
but nobody made them better for the heavy jobs. Underhill was mostly for hard work and keep it comin.
I wish I had more.

 The ad must have been some of the last Underhill production. I never knew they made anything as light as a lath hatchet.
   yours Scott