The blade’s working-class cousin and the forge’s favorite first project: axe anatomy and the classic American patterns, tomahawks from trade history to the throwing lane, bit steels and heat treat, hanging a handle right, restoring flea-market finds, and keeping a working edge on all of it.
Between the frontier and the chainsaw, America conducted a two-century experiment in axe design: every logging region tuning heads to its own timber until…
The axe is the knife's working-class cousin: same steel, same edge physics, ten times the leverage and none of the pretension. It is also…
Axe metallurgy is knife metallurgy with the volume turned down and the toughness turned all the way up: lower carbon, lower hardness, and a…
An axe is edge geometry with a run-up. Everything the knife-angle chart teaches applies, then the swing multiplies the stakes: geometry that merely underperforms…
An axe asks less maintenance than any knife you own and rewards it more visibly: the difference between a working edge and a neglected…
The battle axe suffers the greatsword's PR problem in reverse: fantasy art draws twenty-pound slabs no human could swing, while the real weapons were…
At the opposite pole from the felling swing lives the axe as a knife with momentum: the carving axe shaping spoons and bowls a…
Ask a hundred smiths for the best first forge-welding project and the tomahawk wins by a landslide: one weld, generous target, forgiving geometry, and…
Half an axe is wood, and the marriage of the two — the hang — is a craft old enough to have its own…
Somewhere between the knife bench and the forge, nearly every maker catches the axe-restoration bug: five-dollar heads with a century of American tool steel…
The tomahawk is North America's own axe: born from the meeting of Native fighting clubs and European trade steel, refined into something lighter, faster…
The tomahawk's oldest pastime became the 2010s' unlikeliest boom: axe-throwing venues in every city, two international leagues, televised finals — and a permanent new…