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 ...

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 ...

Follow the process of forging a custom hewing axe for Erik Grankvist, from shaping the steel in the forge to testing it at ...

Forging a Norwegian hewing axe inspired by traditional methods outlined in a Norwegian book. This video documents my first attempt at creating one of these giant axes. Norway holds personal ...

In the previous entry, we discussed debarking spuds and drawknives. We’re going to continue discussing other ways to prepare your logs for the next step in log cabin building. This time we’re going to ...