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 ...

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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 ...