"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." It’s an old-fashioned, and you never thought you'd need to split wood gain. But home ownership comes for ...

The internet: overloaded with all manner of products—some good, many bad—but few quite so revered as those coming out of Best Made. The company was known for making excellent axes, rugged coats, ...

I am not a bushcrafter or survivalist, but in my heart, I feel like I’m just as obsessed with hatchets as people in those communities. Even though I have central heating in my home and don’t depend on ...

Even if you aren’t trekking deep into the backcountry, a hatchet is always a good tool to have around for camping. They makes easy work of tasks like splitting wood, driving tent stakes into the ...

Splitting wood for the coming winter isn’t just great exercise. It can be a time for reflection and even meditation. There is something deeply satisfying in seeing the pile of split wood grow larger ...

While there are a million ways to camp and as many tools for the job, there is a solid case for keeping things simple with a classic camp hatchet. Lightweight, capable, and just dang fun to swing, the ...

The Almike is a throwback of hand tooling in the mass production era, and it shows in one of the highest quality bushcraft axes available today. A modern splitting axe that has a nicely weighted head ...

If you live in Idaho, you likely either own or have had occasion to use an axe. You can buy a plain old splitting axe at Home Depot for $35, or you can go in for the kind of heirloom piece of ...

Our Top Picks Unlike some of the newer, more technologically advanced demolition tools on the market, modern axes are the streamlined result of thousands of years of refinement by workers who depended ...

If you lived in New York City in the early 2010s, you might remember an airy, well-lit store in Tribeca called Best Made Co. Inside were wonderful objects: pocket knives, enamel cookware, blankets, ...