At this very moment, you can head over to Duluth Trading Co. and buy a Best Made American Felling Axe with an exquisitely decorated handle for $270. Those painted and varnished helves, elevating the ...

If you’re familiar with Best Made Co., it’s likely that you know its axes. They’re the big, two-handed ones made (proudly) in America of steel and hickory; the ones with the painted handles. They were ...

When Manhattan-based designer Peter Buchanan-Smithfounded Best Made Company in 2009, the operation was all about the axes. Carefully handcrafted from steel and Appalachian hickoryby a ...

Most light ice axes are made of aluminum throughout, and an aluminum head and pick will wear out quickly. While weight is a chief everyday concern, keep in mind that an aluminum tool likely can’t ...

Next to a concrete lot full of shrink-wrapped boats in the shadows of Bug Light Park in South Portland stands a cobalt-blue concrete building that resembles an abandoned garage. Step inside, and you ...

You might know Best Made Co. as the company that makes all of those fancy painted axes, and you’re right — the company’s first product was the axe, which it continues to manufacture in the USA with ...

Best Made Co., the New York-based purveyor of haute hardware that made a name for itself as the purveyor of $348 axes, has chosen Los Angeles as the home of its second retail store, a ...