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 ...

This is a Rare Kelly Wood Slasher hewing axe from the 1900's. I restored this antique axe by using evaporust, sandblasting ...

Hand-hewer Stephen Smith, pictured here with his broad ax, recently spoke at an event put on by the Cumberland Historical Society. Eloise Goldsmith / The Forecaster Six years ago, Stephen Smith of ...

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 ...

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 ...