Depending on the type of axe, it can have various properties and designs, so it's important to understand which one to use.

“This is what they call a foot adze. You stand in a boat like that and dig,” Bordelon said. He collects driftwood and carves pieces of cypress root into duck decoys. “Look how pretty this i ...

These notched joints provided adequate structural stability for stacked-log structures. The adze, or foot-adze, is a tool that features a blade positioned perpendicular to its handle, like a hoe.

Wayne Price is a Tlingit carver from Haines. He’s using an adze, a tool used by his ancestors thousands of years ago. Like most construction projects, the building site of the Walter Soboleff ...