Awesome Axes

First released in 1977, the Chopper1 Axe is an axe head purpose-built for splitting wood. It has rotating levers on each side that swing out after the axe’s edge penetrates the wood, diverting some of the downward force to the sides.

Serial learner Mike Boyd recently gave himself his easiest and quickest task yet: throw an axe and make it stick to a wooden target three times in a row. If anything, this video is proof of how much he’s learned about teaching and video editing.

“I am the storm, brother.” Euron Greyjoy’s axe in Game of Thrones appeared only briefly and in a dimly lit scene. But Man at Arms: Reforged and its fans were so taken by its badass design that they went ahead and replicated it anyway.

Minnesota artists HVRNT take quality new and restored axes, hatchets, and knives and hand-embellish their wood handles with natural and native imagery, much in the way one might have their skin tattooed. The designs are burned into the wood and then painted in some cases.

Designed with the Australian outback in mind, the Adventure Mate is a multi-tool that uses interchangeable heads. The hatchet head also has a hammer and a hook; flip it and you get a fine-toothed saw. It also comes with a shovel head.

Originally known as the L’il Trucker, this awesome tool is now past the crowdfunding stage and available on Amazon. The USA-made tool rocks a hatchet, hammer, claw, hex sockets, a replaceable 6″ saw blade, steel glass breaker, seatbelt cutter, bottle opener, and more.

Need an axe but all you have lying around the shop is a hammer? Miller Knives transforms one into the other, through a painstaking process that mostly involves pounding and grinding the hammerhead’s ends until they take on the desired form.

The perfect multipurpose tool for yard work and outdoor living. This 3-in-1 tool combines an axe, a 7″ serrated blade folding saw, and a hammer. The 12″ tool is made from titanium stainless steel, and has a sturdy glass-filled nylon handle. The included sheath also packs a bottle opener.

After making a nodachi, Man at Arms: Reforged continues its For Honor theme by creating a real-life version of the impractical but imposing two-handed axe wielded by the game’s Raider class. It’s more likely to crush than cut.

Save 25% on this impressive tool, which combines an axe, hammer, nail puller, pry bar, spanner, and a tire chain hook in one. It has a fiberglass handle and shock-absorbing grip, and is perfect for taking down zombies too.

An impressive survival implement made from S-7 tool steel with a black Cerakote finish. Its head’s shape reduces weight to less than a pound without affecting integrity, and accepts pry bar, hammer and spike accessories. Comes with a MOLLE compatible G-10 sheath.

You don’t have to be a truck driver to get value from this impressive tool, which combines an axe, hammer, nail puller, pry bar, spanner, and a tire chain hook in one. Has a fiberglass handle and shock-absorbing grip. It’s perfect for taking down zombies too.

Survival expert Tim Ralston’s latest creation is perhaps the world’s most versatile axe. The chromoly steel Timahawk is a crow bar, tomahawk, adze hammer, and all-around zombie killer, and comes with a sling pack for carrying. Also available in a deluxe Bug-Out kit.

A collaboration between 5.11 and Viking Tactics founder Kyle Lamb. The Operator Axe is made of stainless steel and has a bearded axe blade, a hammer point, a pry bar, inch and cm rulers, hex wrenches, 0.5″ and 0.25″ bit drivers and a sheet metal cutter.

A serious axe for serious outdoorsmen, the Chogan T-Hawk has a drop-forged 1055 carbon steel tomahawk head, set atop a Tennessee hickory handle. Great for chopping and throwing. Its brother, the Kangee T-Hawk has a spike instead of a hammer.

Whether you’re chopping wood or taking down zombies, this lightweight 2-position axe is up to the toughest tasks. Designed in collaboration with blademaker Joe Pirela, it’s got a durable 6061 Aluminum handle, an S7 tool steel blade, 316 stainless hardware, and a Kydex sheath.

Baltimore Knife and Sword had a tomahawk contest between two of its blacksmiths. Matt Stagmer made the axe from Assassin’s Creed 3 while Ilya Alekseyev made the axe from The Patriot.

A multi-tool shaped like an axe head. Aside from an axe blade, It also has a hammer, a scraper, a ruler and more. You can mount it to a handle either by using its clamps or by tying it with a paracord, depending on the model you get.

Unlike conventional axes that strike wood at an almost perpendicular angle, the head of the Leveraxe is off-center and slightly swivels when it hits wood, chipping off a large chunk of wood in one strike.

The Broquet company offers a variety of cool experience-based gift packages; the Woodsman collection encourages your favorite guy to swing that axe with a 16” hatchet, pigskin gloves, log carrier and rope. We like their MacGyver kit too.

John Neeman Tools is a small Latvian-based team that specializes in making woodworking tools and knives by hand. This video shows how they make an axe. The song is Holocene by Bon Iver.

With its wide, upswept axe blade, penetrating spike and paracord-wrapped reinforced handle, ThinkGeek’s lightweight ATT is a great tool to decapitate walkers. Bonus: karambit coming soon.

When you don’t have a shotgun handy, the axe can be your best friend in zombie-killing games and movies. ZombieGoBoom puts the SOG double-headed axe to the test with spectacular results.