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Ben Orford - Greenwood worker and knifemakerFelling a spruce tree with a small forest axe
 Hollowing a bowl with a 'trug runner'
Carving a bowl with a 'trug runner'
 Backwoods raft
 Splitting without a block
Hollowing a dough bowl with a hand adze
 Ben Orford and his axe collection
 Hollowing a bowl
Limbing a spruce tree
 Calculating lean on a spruce tree
 Safe splitting techniques

Photo Credits: Many Thanks to Mr. Steffan Stringer, Mr. John Sunter (of the semi-famous www.johnsunter.com) and Mr. Peter Skillen for kindly allowing us to use a few of their photos, taken on our Axe Workshop, in this gallery.