Not posted in this thread before, but here we go!
A couple of years ago, pre-pandemic, I was after a nice axe, for splitting kindling and bits of pruning around the garden. Was looking at the usual fancy suspects, Gransfors or Hults, when my other half threw in a different offer as a birthday/Christmas present – an axe-making course at a local forge.
Obviously global Lurghi you in the way, but I finally got it booked and headed down there today, to Highfield Forge, just outside of Wakefield. Won’t comment on the course too much aside from ‘it was really good’, thought I’d knackered things at a couple of intervals but the instructor was ace and at the end of the day I walked out with a big grin and a slightly rustic but very much functional axe!