Blog | ExploringAxeHistory

Aug 113 min read

The “Union Tool Company”: a classic case of a multi-brand marketing strategy

Feb 56 min read

Joe Tyson, a talented blacksmith of Carthage, North Carolina

Dec 26, 20256 min read

Patterns: evolution and death of the diversity of American Axes

Dec 19, 20253 min read

The Businesses of Henry Warwood

Sep 20, 202511 min read

The Rixfords in Canada

Jul 13, 20256 min read

The Mack Axe Co., Winchester, E.C. Simmons, and the "Keen Kutter" Line of Axes

Jun 20, 20253 min read

Robert Archer and Company's Axes

Apr 7, 20255 min read

A Connection between Maine Axes and the Golden Gate of California

Mar 8, 20253 min read

Moxie and Maine Axes......a connection

Feb 2, 20255 min read

A visit to Hoffman Blacksmithing: modern axe makers with historic foundations

Dec 5, 20244 min read

Seth Silsby, an early axe manufacturing technique pioneer.

Oct 25, 20246 min read

Historical Mistakes Made by Axe Counterfeiters

Oct 20, 20247 min read

The "Tomahawk" of Clinton, Massachusetts

Jul 6, 20248 min read

Counterfeit Axes: Acid Etching versus modern CNC/Lasering

May 31, 20244 min read

The Haines Pattern of trade hatchets

May 5, 20246 min read

The Barney and Berry Hatchet

Apr 5, 20244 min read

The Van Doren origin of Kelly Vanadium Hatchets

Mar 16, 20248 min read

The Hub Axe

Feb 23, 20245 min read

eBay and the Complacency of Fraudulently Altered Collectible Axes

Jan 28, 20246 min read