I bought a neat little boy scout hatchet at the flea market last week for $5. The week before I bought a nice old boy scout hatchet handle.
This is the handle.
I utterly failed to take before pictures. It took an hour to clean up the head with a wire brush and some good old fashion sweat. This is what I saw after clean up.
This is my final product. Ignore my imperfect grinding. I need to buy some new belts.
It doesn't have a nail puller which is part of what got me interested in buying it. As I understand it the nail notch was added in 1913 as an improvement. If I am right about it this axe is from 1911 to 1912.
The head is about 1 lb 1 oz. so it's smaller than a normal Boy's Scout hatchet. The hatchet weighs 1 lb 5 oz with the handle. I really slimmed down the Boy Scout handle so all the paint had to go.
Pretty neat and rare tool.