Axes, Adzes & Froes

Axes, adzes, froes and billhooks remain an astonishingly efficient and accurate way to cut, split and shape wood and we have a selection from the UK, Czechia and Japan to choose from.

Axes are among the most ancient and iconically human tools, for nearly 50,000 years they have served as the primary tool for harvesting and converting our most abundant resource - trees. If you include hand axes you can more than triple that time.

Since the advent of the saw, our reliance on the axe has diminished, but with a little practice and common sense, axes, adzes and froes remain an astonishingly efficient and accurate way to cut, split and shape wood.