This respect-inspiring tool is called a splitting hammer because the neck of the blade, which weighs about 2 kg, is shaped as a hammer track and is not through-hardened. So you can simply turn the splitting hammer around when needed - for example, when working with a rotary splitting wedge. It is additionally equipped with a steel handle protection sleeve.

Lush demands and meticulous thrift are the two attitudes with which the Swedish blacksmiths around Gabriel Brånby at Gränsfors Bruks make their famous axes. Lavish are the demands on the material (a specially alloyed axe steel and the best hickory handle wood), lavish is also the time each smith takes to forge, harden, temper, straighten, sharpen and polish the handle of his axe, add rounded notches for better grip, fit and secure it. (The two letters in the head of each axe are the initials of the one who made it). One after another the result: axes that are light and balanced in the hand and in a way not quite explainable clearly more beautiful than their peers.