This video features the restoration of a rare Kelly Wood Slasher hewing axe from the 1900s. The restoration process utilizes ...

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 ...

In this video, I forge a Norwegian hewing axe for the first time, employing methods from a book I purchased from Norway. I also share my personal connection to Norway, as my great-great-grandfather ...