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Adler Axes has been forging cutting tools in Germany since Josef Schmitt opened a village blacksmith shop in Wiesental in 1919. The company now works out of Waghäusel, just south of Heidelberg near the Rhine, with Tobias Schmitt running it as the fourth generation. Every head still carries the JSW maker's mark, Josef Schmitt's initials plus a W for the village where it started. Adler is one of the German makers anchoring our axes and saws collection.
Adler forges its heads from German carbon steel, C60 on the Rheinland Axe, Pulaski, and Scout Hatchet and C45 on the Rheinland Hatchet, Yankee patterns, and Canoe Axe, hardened to a working range that takes an edge and shrugs off knots. Each head is hung on American hickory and locked with round metal wedges for a tight, lasting fit. The handles wear Adler's water based anti slip paint, so the grip holds when your hands are wet, and every axe and hatchet ships with a heavy duty leather sheath.
The Rheinland Axe is Adler's best seller for decades, a classic German pattern for felling small trees, limbing, and splitting. The Rheinland Hatchet and Yankee Hatchet handle camp kindling, the Canoe Axe splits the difference for paddlers and backcountry trips, and the full size Yankee Axe is a forester's tool for medium and large trees. The compact Scout Hatchet rides in a day pack at under a pound.
The Adler Pulaski axe pairs an axe bit with a hoe style adze on a 27 inch hickory handle, the trail crew and fire line tool for chopping roots and digging in one swing set. For the league crowd, the Rheinland Throwing Hatchet was developed with axe throwing pros and built to WATL specs, with a 3.94 inch blade, 15.75 inch handle, and 1.95 pound weight.
Adler's factory carries FWI certification confirming genuine German manufacture. All of its paints are water based, and the wood waste from handle production feeds up to 700 kilowatts of energy back into the plant, a modern operation built around century old craft.
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