When the blade gets dull, well, you can fix that: A bench grinder can be used to sharpen a dull axe head, and some rust soak will have it looking new. But a when the handle cracks or is damaged ...

Enter the Axe Bat, which the company began marketing in 2013. The round handle and knob of the bat is an anachronism, a relic of the fact that bats in the 19th Century were made on lathes ...