Seth Godin and John T. Unger, two voices I listen to very carefully, recommended me this Global Microbrand, independently of each another: Best Made Company.
Best Made make customized axes. Like it says on their webpage:
NOTHING WITHOUT AN AXE:
Every high-rise condo, luxury office, executive suite, ranch house, and farmstead must have an axe in it. We know that axes shouldn’t only be in the hands of lumberjacks: anyone and everyone should have an axe in their name. Put it in your cubicle, give it to your niece as a graduation present, or your dad for father’s day (or better yet mom for mother’s day), bring it to the company picnic, carry it to the door next time Jehovah’s Witness come knocking, or just lean it up against your living room wall and admire. An axe is indispensable and sublime, the epitome of self-reliance and independence, a perfect design object, a timeless instrument.
I swapped emails with one of the company’s founders, Graeme. Turns out he and his business partner, Peter, like myself, spent their teenage summers canoe-tripping up in Northern Ontario, where believe me, a good axe is both an indispensable and highly revered piece of kit. So that’s where the love comes from.
I’ve held one of their axes in my own two hands- beautifully made, lovely to hold and to look at.
Good luck to these folk, I say…
