Acquire

I. The Departure 

The objects you see depicted on this site are gone. They have been sold. They have migrated from the imagination of the workshop to the reality of other men’s ( or women's) walls. They have been purchased, wrapped, and shipped to their new lives, where they now exist as silent, sharp observers of someone else’s domestic habits. Do not mourn them. We can make another.

II. The Covenant  

We do not keep a stock of finished things waiting in the dark. We operate on the principle of the Commission. You ask for the thing; we go into the wilderness to find the steel that answers the question. It is a collaboration. You provide the desire; we provide the edge.

III. Particulars & Logistics

How long must I wait? The moon cycles once. Typically, the process requires four weeks. Sometimes the steel cooperates, and the rust surrenders easily, and it is faster. Sometimes the wood is stubborn and requires more discipline. We do not rush the drying of the oil. To rush is to insult the hickory.

What is the cost of permanence? It begins at $500. The price ascends from there, depending on the rarity of the head, the complexity of the handle, and the difficulty of the resurrection.

What arrives at my door? A system. You do not receive a loose axe rattling in a cardboard tube. Every hand tool arrives in a handmade display box, a wooden enclosure built specifically for that object. It is a coffin for a tool that refuses to stay dead. Inside the box, you will find the tool. You will also find Treats: ephemera, small jars of oil, notes from the field, and evidence that a human hand has touched this thing.

IV. You are not buying a tool to chop wood (though you could). 

You are buying a piece of history that has been stopped in its tracks, cleaned up, put in a suit, and asked to behave.