Joe, I had an old feller at a flea market, many years ago, show me an old hatchet that looked a lot like your old relic axe-head.
It had a half-rotted handle in it and the eye had been broken, all the way down and it looked as though it had been hand welded back together. A really un usable piece of junk...
He told me that it was THE hatchet that was used by George Washington to chop down the cherry tree. He said that the ONLY thing that had EVER been done to it, was, the handle had been replaced 4 times and the head had been replaced twice.

He kept a straight face for about 30 seconds, then cracked up, laughing.
It may be a stupid story but I thought it was fairly original...
...CCBill...

Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein...