During the construction of our second cabin, hand tools have been an integral part of the process. Sledgehammers, wedges, and axes have always remained some of the most used items throughout our ...

At this very moment, you can head over to Duluth Trading Co. and buy a Best Made American Felling Axe with an exquisitely decorated handle for $270. Those painted and varnished helves, elevating the ...

The Almike is a throwback of hand tooling in the mass production era, and it shows in one of the highest quality bushcraft axes available today. A modern splitting axe that has a nicely weighted head ...

The weight and shape of the axe head, the curve of the bit (blade), the handle shape and length, and other design features help to determine the kinds of tasks for which a particular axe is best ...

This long-bitted, British-type felling axe head was found in the excavation of a house in the fall of 1955 that used to be part of the Fort Crown Point settlement constructed in the 1760s. It has ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It’s an old-fashioned, and you never thought you'd need to split wood gain. But home ownership comes for ...

Before the days of sawmills, table saws and planers, you chopped away with a hewing ax if you wanted flat sides on round wood, says Wood magazine. In the hands of the skilled craftsman, this nearly ...

Last year was, by some accounts, the year of the lumbersexual—big beard, big plaid, big boots. Although not measured by time spent in the woods, the look’s ultimate accessory would have to be an axe.