This blacksmithing project focuses on tool making -specifically, forging a drift designed to form the eye of an axe. Although I’ve never made an axe before, I wanted to test the process and create ...

Crafting axes is an important first step in Grounded. Without an axe, players will be unable to progress further, as a lot of blueprints require items only accessible with a good axe chop. There’s a ...

Mark Ferguson is the president and co-founder of Brant & Cochran LLC, a small South Portland-based axe maker named for his grandfather’s tool-supply business in Detroit that operated after World War ...

Swinging a golf club is a complex (and unnatural) motion. You’re attempting to keep your body, arms and hands in perfect sync to put the clubhead square on the back of a ball that measures less than 2 ...

One major factor determining the cost of an everyday carry knife is its blade material. This is in part because metallurgy — the science of producing and purifying metals — is complicated. The ...