Axes & Straight Blades
Forging the Swedish Carpenter Axe
On February 26, 2016 by jaustinSince watching Mattias Helje forge a beautiful, traditional carpenter’s axe in Sweden in 2015 I have done several trials of forging this axe myself. At first I concentrated exclusively on the eye and socket – the hardest part of the axe to understand. Recently I began to forge and understand the axe as a whole.