Best for: Carpentry and woodworking. This medium-sized axe is mainly used for hewing wood and creating flat edges on otherwise round-edged lumber. It can also create wood shavings. To achieve this ...

"We were converting those logs into square timbers using axes. That's called hand hewing," Wallace-Gusakov said. "We spent months, a crew of 20 of us, months only hewing with axes, so lots and ...