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Snow & Nealley has been forging axes in Maine since 1864, when Charles Snow and Edward Nealley opened their Bangor supply company to serve the loggers felling the great North Woods. Nealley went on to become mayor of Bangor; the company went on to define what a working American axe should be, and a Snow & Nealley head has been a fixture on barn walls and traplines for over 160 years.
Our selection covers the heritage line: the Hudson Bay Camping Axe, the pattern trappers and canoe travelers made famous, sized for one-hand work and two-hand bite; the Penobscot Bay Kindling Axe, the company's own signature refinement of the Hudson Bay style and its perennial best seller; and the Outdoorsman's Belt Axe, a compact hatchet built for hunters and campers who count ounces. Every head is drop forged from American high carbon steel, hand tempered and hand ground, then hung on select American hickory with a leather blade guard, ready to join our axes and saws collection in the truck or the pack.
When the historic company closed its doors, these axes disappeared, until a Maine Amish family who admired the brand bought it and brought production home to their farm shop, where the owner and crew use hand tools daily and build axes they would want to swing themselves. They're so committed to the old ways that Snow & Nealley famously has no website, which tells you where the effort goes instead. For splitting kindling behind the cabin or processing wood on a bushcraft weekend, this is 1864 quality you can still buy new, and hand it down like the originals.
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