Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0035
Medieval Wood Carbon Axe
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
Heaviness defines this two-foot span of dark ash and blackened iron, a tool made for the grim work of clearing ancient thickets. It swings with the sorrow of falling timber and the solemn grace of an era long forgotten. The matte blade absorbs the light, refusing to reflect the world it must cleave.
About this piece
Medieval Wood Carbon Axe is a axe carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of battle axes. It measures 24in overall as stated by the forge, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is Black Matte Stainless Steel, Carbon Steel. Carbon and tool steels take a finer edge and take it faster, and they will rust if left wet. Wipe the blade dry and keep a film of oil on it and it will outlast you.
Fittings and furniture: Wood. The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Long arms are judged by carry and by intent rather than by a blade ceiling in most provinces. Transport this piece cased, and read your own state's law before you carry it in public.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“Weight at the head, will at the haft. The rest is only aim.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 24 inches
- Form
- axe
- Steel
- Black Matte Stainless Steel, Carbon Steel
- Fittings
- Wood
$244.99
The Muster — swear $55.01 more and the house bears the carriage. Otherwise it is $16.00 flat, however much steel rides. Walk the halls
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for weight — a short haft, a heavy head, and force gathered at the edge.
The lineage of its steel — Black Matte Stainless Steel, Carbon Steel
High-carbon steel. The old, honest choice. It takes a keener edge than stainless and holds it under work, but it will rust if it is left wet. Oil it, and it will outlive you.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The shield-breaker
One who works wood, throws for sport, or keeps a camp. Mass does the labour; the hand only aims it.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. Medieval Wood Carbon Axe is 24″ of black matte stainless steel, carbon steel, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 216 hertz — deep and long, clean. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
Weight at the head, will at the haft. An axe does not need a skilled arm, only a committed one. Which is why every levy in history was handed one, and why the men who faced them remembered it.
02The Making
Carbon steel — Black Matte Stainless Steel, Carbon Steel. It will take an edge finer than any stainless and hold it through work that would roll a lesser blade. It will also rust if you look at it wrong. Carbon is a bargain: the house gives you the better edge and you give it your attention. Oil it, dry it, and it will outlive you.
03The Carry
At 24 inches this sits between the arm and the field — too long to be discreet, too short to need both hands. It is the awkward, dangerous middle that historically belonged to men on horseback and men in doorways.
04The Reckoning
Every blade in this castle outlives the argument that bought it. Buy accordingly.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Medieval Wood Carbon Axe
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it keeps you close. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang something that reaches past the guard before he closes.
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34 inches against your 24. It opens the ground this one cannot.
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60 inches against your 24. It opens the ground this one cannot.
Sleeveless Butted Mail Shirt, Soldier Grade 50" Chest - Code 16z 50" Chest - Code 16z
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50 inches against your 24. It opens the ground this one cannot.
The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The press
Walnut Damascus Bowie with Brass InlaySame fittings, other work. It answers for a working length for the close work, when the line has already broken.
$139.99the pair — $384.98
The dark
Rosewood Skinner with Leather SheathSame fittings, other work. It answers for something small and quiet, carried where no one looks for it.
$119.99the pair — $364.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Axes →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- Carbon or Stainless: Which Steel Should You Actually BuyThe oldest quarrel in the trade, settled plainly.
- Types of Medieval Helmets: A Field Guide from Spangenhelm to ArmetThe steel that stood between a skull and the day it ended — six centuries of helmet evolution.
- Keeping an Edge: Sharpening, Stropping and StorageHow to keep steel keen without ruining it — the whole discipline in one reading.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- The weapon familiesWhere this shape sits among the arms it grew from.
- Grips, hafts and wrapsWood, cord and leather — how a handle is built and re-built.
- Rust, patina and oilKeeping carbon steel alive, and the difference between stain and rot.
- Geometry, balance and harmonicsWhy two blades of the same weight feel nothing alike in the hand.
Medieval Wood Carbon Axe
$244.99