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Best Made Axes

Published August 4, 2009 by Molly

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Tools are personal. Whether it’s a paintbrush, chisel, camera or sewing machine, a long-used tool becomes like a third arm. You learn its quirks and deficits. You figure out, over time, how to coax the best performance from it.

Best Made appreciates this fact and produces its axes–yes, axes–accordingly. Their axes are made to order, hand-painted and tempered by “one of America’s oldest axe-makers.” The handles are made of hickory from Tennessee and each axe arrives with its own leather blade guard, ready for the kindling pile. Best of all? The axes have names like “Moss Thumper”, “Big Sur” and “Zepyhr”.

Appropriate for chopping wood or just mounting on the wall, the axes come with a lifetime guarantee. As the creators put it–and this applies to every tool, no matter what size– “Axes, like all tools, are at your disposal to make your life, and the world around you a better place, and above all they require your sound judgment and precaution. An axe can bite you if you don’t respect it…always respect your Axe!”