True Temper Axe - Todd Roeth

True Temper

There is no way to know where or when this True Temper Kelly Perfect # 32 double bit edge axe head was forged. The company existed under this name from the mid 1900’s in Charleston WV and then to Cleveland OH until the company split it’s assets and name in 1987. It does not much […]

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Grandfather's Axe - Todd Roeth

Grandfather’s Axes

My father delivered three axe heads to me recently. The shapes are remarkable – pure forms dictated by function and re-formed by decades of use. The shapes are a Dayton pattern, a uniquely shaped Michigan-style, and one that most resembles a Western Crown style, sometimes claimed as an ‘Ohio’ style axe.

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