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THE HICKORY STORY
Our striking tool handles are manufactured from genuine American Hickory grown in the Tennessee River Valley region. Hickory is a natural shock absorber along with excellent strength for tool handles. The hickory tree has been used for hundreds of years for various items including wagon wheel spokes and tool handles.
The first tool handles were hand carved and later turned on Defiance lathes. Today, hydraulic and air automatic lathes do the maching but every handle is still visibility inspected and graded due to hickory being a natural product.
Below find the story of the why hickory is tough and hard and later watch the "Hard as Hickory" video.
See Hickory Wood Article for toughness of the hickory tree.
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The FLAME SEASONED Line
Tough.......down to the very last fiber
Fleischmann Flame Seasoned Handles, carved from fine second growth
Tennessee Hickory, are tempered by a process known to the Indians
before the white man came to America.
The Indian discovered that tempering Hickory over live flame gave the
wood a hard protective finish, a tightly sealed surface that resisted
harmful weather action…that it actually strengthened the fibers of this,
the toughest wood known.
The principle of live flame tempering remains unchanged. But where the
Indians went at it trial and error, we here at Fleischmann carefully regulate
the process with the most modern equipment.
The result?
Just the finest Hickory handles in
the medium price field.
See "Steps to Re-handle Tools"
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Yesteryear hickory mill.
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