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The face is 2 1/2" square, so the missing numerals are the 1/2. You're right, JHCC, mine doesn't look like the Fisher or BSA. I'll get a handle in it and add it to my menagerie.

OK, here are a top and a bottom view. I didn't notice it until I saw the bottom photo, but it appears to have a '2' and maybe a '/', like maybe the dimension of the head.

Thanks for your research efforts! This eagle likely was much more intricate when new, but a hundred years or so of rust have taken a toll. I'll put a new handle in it, and this old tool will have a new life.

While rummaging through some of my dad's old tools, I came across a very old flatter. I'm pretty sure it belonged to my grandfather, who passed it down to my dad. I remember using it to drive tent stakes as a Boy Scout. Anyhoo, in the process of knocking some of the rust off, I found what appears to be an eagle stamped into the top near the handle hole. Does that seem familiar to anyone?

About 13 miles from the Sonic in Atlanta and Linden, both. Or about 35 miles southwest of Texarkana.

Putting lipstick on the pig, I made a sheath for the spike dagger.

I upset the handle to a square cross section, then split it with a bandsaw.

I finally got my homebrew grinder working and started grinding on the spike dagger. Still need a lot of practice on the grinding, but it's improving slowly.

Here's my entry into the spike dagger pool. I chose to upset the handle to a near square cross section and split it to make a basket twist handle.

If I had a woolly mammoth I might not need the rake.

I've been on hiatus here for a while, but not altogether inactive with the forge. Some truck leaf springs followed me home from a neighbor's house, so I put them to good use as rake tines for my mini excavator.

Excellent photo! The shutter speed had to be a second or more unless that was some really FAST water.

I used to go to SMU at the end of the spring semester and cart off the 8' 2 X 12 lumber and cinder blocks that were used as dorm bookshelves. The dorm supervisor was thrilled to get rid of them. I've built furniture, goat sheds, barn stalls and lots of other stuff with them. Still have quite a few in the barn loft.

In operation, it looks more like a pneumatic press than a power hammer. I can't help wondering if the bands holding the upper frame to the anvil may allow the upper frame to slide up the anvil if it develops into a 100 bpm machine.

Thanks, CGL. I'm looking forward to meeting you as well. Jonquil 2.0 is on the drawing board. I hope to correct some of 1.0's inadequacies.