“You can loan a friend an axe for a day or you can bring them to the Axe Building Workshop and they will have an axe for life.”
Each participant is taught to resuscitate a vintage axe head by hanging it on a new hickory handle and constructing a leather blade guard. We have been running this workshop for years, pulling hundreds of axes back from the rust heap of history, putting them firmly where they belong, in the hands of enthusiastic novices.
This workshop continues to create community and produce distinct analog memories of adventure. We provide a positive safe workshop open to all ages and skill levels.
Scholarships are available.
MISC workshop partners with a variety of friends in the woods of the Pacific Northwest to locate a variety of distinct vintage axe heads. Double bit, single bit, and hatchets, some bearing the stamps of long defunct axe companies or from small forges anonymous to the history books. Crafted in an age of steel that we will never see again these axes deserve a next chapter. We always teach sharpening, and splitting techniques with the newly restored axes. The diverse mix of participants generates a shared knowledge and a cross pollination of personalities.
Legends and lies emerge as nearly everyone has a story of the oldest tool known to humans. We hope to add yours to our collection of close calls and harrowing childhood misfortunes. Let us know what questions you have and we will see you in the studio.
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