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…and split a natural shake using an oak wedge. Oak wedge or axe, both work. Plastic and steel wedges work well too, but in this case we’re using the axe…

Mesquite restrains my falling axe tight within its wet jaw And wedged there it waits, gripped in stubbornness. I catch my breath; the axe waits more ‘neath fingers traced Along…

…other things. Carving outdoors on a log using mostly an axe is another way. It has value to any woodworker to spend time in the wood zone and listen to…

…any experience of actually splitting wood ever in their lives. Taking an axe to a section of pine and axing across the grain showed that the axe could only sever…

…shaped with a goosewing axe hand wrought on an anvil by another artisan: a blacksmith, a young blacksmith that knows his craft and feels his calling to an ancient vocation….

…present days in which I stand and work. I understand the days past when the axeman swung his blacksmithed axe and trees felled lay dead with cause to let the…

…onto the endgrain to guide my axe cut. I split off the excess in two stages, the first to check grain direction, the second to establish the width before planing…