rigin | Fire and Soul of the City of Steel
In Sheffield, the melting pot of England’s Industrial Revolution, the symphony of hammers and furnace fires never stops. In 1888, when the first steam train carrying Sheffield steel sailed to the world, blacksmith Edgar Holt forged the first axe with the “crossed hammers” emblem for miners and railway builders in a small workshop in the city center.

A century later, his great-granddaughter Clara Holt restarted the dusty family forge and founded ForgeAxes – no longer serving the industrial giant, but for every modern person who creates life with their own hands, to create tools that can be passed down for the next century.

Core Concept | Forging is not just about metal

Thousand-degree quenching: Each axe uses the “triple forging method” left by Edgar – the steel is repeatedly folded and hammered at a high temperature of 1200℃, the blade density is increased by 37%, but it is 20% lighter than the axe of his grandfather’s generation.

Steel cycle: 100% of the blade material comes from recycled steel from abandoned ships and rails in the UK, and the axe handle wood is taken from oak beams recycled from urban renewal projects. Each axe is embedded with an NFC chip to trace its “past and present”.

Anti-refinement: Refusing to polish the axe surface to perfection, deliberately retaining the hammer marks and oxidation patterns during forging, just like the stone slabs on the streets of Sheffield that have been polished for hundreds of years.