Before the days of sawmills, table saws and planers, you chopped away with a hewing ax if you wanted flat sides on round wood, says Wood magazine. In the hands of the skilled craftsman, this nearly ...

Before the days of sawmills, table saws and planers, you chopped away with a hewing ax if you wanted flat sides on round wood, says Wood magazine. In the hands of the skilled craftsman, this nearly ...

Forging a Norwegian hewing axe inspired by traditional methods outlined in a Norwegian book. This video documents my first ...

September 24, 2013—Craftsbury Common, Vermont—Hand-hewing expert and author Mike Beaudry will be giving a two-day workshop on hewing and timber framing at Sterling College on October 19-20, 2013.