Carpenter's Hatchet - 13" USA Made Carpenters Axe with Smooth Face & Shock Reduction Grip - E3-2H

Wanted one of these since I was a kid. My own personal Tomahawk! Seriously I needed a hammer and a hatchet, so why not get this classic tool. Of course it's as good as the brand is and I'm very happy with it. Only reason didn't get the leather shaft version is because I needed a lanyard hole. Estwing should really remedy this. The axe blade was as dull as a butter knife, but I honed it up to arm hair shaving sharpness, so I'm glad I also got the Estwing sheath which really looks cool. 👍🏼👌

Its an Estwing, What else is there to say. This thing is built lo last 100 lifetimes. I just wish it came with a sheath.

This is a great hatchet! American made, "full tang" the grip is perfect, and after chopping into some unknown, hard, dried up tree I didn't feel any fatigue or excessive shock. Fit into my lightweight, small, nearly empty backpack without being too cumbersome or throwing the weight off balance as I walked. The photos on the listings of this product and the rigger's axe are mixed up, the carpenter's hatchet is all steel with blue on the handle only, while the riggers has blue paint up the neck of it. Riggers axe is longer and has a waffle face in the hammer while this Carpenter's Hatchet is a smooth face. All in all great product and maintains it's edge!

I love the Estwing line of tools and this hatchet is no exception. No, it doesn't come with a sheath / cover but with a little modification you can adapt a cover purchased separately to work well for this hand ax. Around camp, this is a truly multi-use tool.... It splits wood, hammers stakes, pulls some stakes or nails with the little notch under the blade, it cracks nuts....It slices, it dices, it.....oops Anyway, seeing some of the u-tube videos of idiots splitting wood with their knives and then bitc...umm, complaining when said knife breaks because of ABUSE just makes me shake my old head and wonder why they don't buy one of these well made hatchets.

First off, let me say that I have used an Estwing hammer since I was 12 years old, and it was older than me when I bought it in 1990. So I have a strongly favourable view of these products. This hatchet arrived in bubble-wrap, but the top edge of the blade had clearly made contact with something hard and concrete-like, since there was some damage to the top quarter inch and a stoney-brown patch stuck to it. I'm guessing someone dropped it on a solid floor. Quality wise, the steel feels really good under a sharpening stone. fairly hard but soft enough to sharpen. The handle looks great, very solid, though there is less of a palm swell than on my hammers. Balance is heavily forward, which would be a bit much on a hammer but makes sense on an axe. The head shape is actually awesome, you can comfortably grip the head to use it as a scraper or to whittle, it's more versatile as a woodworking tool than I expected. The hammer side works very well indeed, which is awesome for tent pegs, I prefer it to the back of hatchet method, here you have a hardened face and a round face that is less likely to find your fingers, and less likely to take off skin than the square corner on the back of a regular hatchet if you do. Criticisms: The grind is less even than my hammers, it looks pretty wobbly on the thin part of the handle. The finish on the pommel plate is very rough and uneven. The edge out of the box was very average, and a touch damaged, though it came back up OK with a little sharpening. I'll keep it, its a good and useful tool and the price is ok. If I had my time over I think I might buy one from a shop so I could pick a good example rather than the first one off the shelf, but then I'm fussy about my tools. Overall, satisfied. Arrived quickly.

solid little axe , best part is the handle.

Great quality

I love these things! I have one mounted on my tractor each of my log splitters and my log arch.

good balance

As you would expect with Estwing (I already have one of their claw hammers) it's beautifully made, with the leather washer handle, and the hammer and blade combination is well balanced. Very pleased overall.

Excellent axe for axe throwing. Meets the WATL standard and it extremely accurate with the flick. Big recommend for any axe throwers!

Well made, really nice tool

Great product wish it was a little bigger