From tree to handles: hand tool only felling, bucking, riving and carving traditional axe handles

Our process for new axe handles, riven from green hickory wood. This has worked very well for us and is the strongest and best way we feel to make a hickory handle, keeping the grain in one piece and orienting edge to heart of the tree. Just as in bow making you get a flexible whippy handle with all the strength, none of the weight, and less propensity to warp sideways in time.

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