The urge to explore is built into each of us. This instinct led our earliest ancestors to new lands and still drives us to the wilderness in search of discoveries about ourselves and the world around us. At Barebones, we believe that well-designed tools enhance your adventures - and that you don’t have to sacrifice form for function.
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Many people buy their outdoor essentials from different sources–a knife from a knife-maker, a hatchet from a hatchet maker, and so forth. Typically, this will result in a miscellany of well-crafted pieces that don’t always work well together. When you do find complementary tools from the same manufacturer, they will likely be sport-inspired, lacking a refined aesthetic. We believe that you don’t have to sacrifice form for function. Merging performance and thoughtful design, we crafted handsome heritage-quality tools that serve in concert to ease the work of the outdoors while individually earning their places in the collection.
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Hatchets
The Field Hatchet is the perfect tool when a full-sized axe is too cumbersome, and a knife is insufficient. Small enough to carry on your side yet powerful enough to fell a tree, it’s the ideal companion. As you prepare firewood for your bonfire or clear away brush, the weight and balance of the Field Hatchet maximize your swing, and the hickory handle minimizes vibration, giving you a more controlled and comfortable experience.
The 12-inch blade of the Japanese Nata Hatchet is ideal for making kindling and planking wood. This tool features a full tang and an easily-sharpened stainless steel blade, giving our Japanese Nata Hatchet a longer life than similar-looking implements on the market. With a wide bevel and serious heft, this hatchet handles controlled chopping, kindling splitting, and trimming with ease. The extra-long edge makes it a go-to for pruning, debarking, and removing limbs.
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Axes
Inspired by iconic park ranger and firefighter Ed Pulaski’s dual-purpose design, the Pulaski Axe features a traditional weighted axe head on one end and a curved mattock blade on the other. This mattock is ideal for cutting through roots and digging in soil, and it offers the perfect counterbalance when chopping firewood. A stately oxide finish and dark hardwood handle modernize the Pulaski Axe’s aesthetic, while reinforcements like a solid steel core and tightening bolt protect its structure.
The Barebones Felling Axe is designed with one purpose in mind: to excel at chopping down anything in your path. But let’s be clear - the Felling Axe is versatile, timeless, and handy, no matter when you use it. Chop firewood, clear brush and branches, and make clean work of removing that tree in your backyard. The lightweight 1055 carbon steel head features a hand-sharpened 3.75-inch blade, ideal for smooth cutting precision and the perfect complement to the durable 23.5-inch curved hickory handle.
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Shovel
Our Folding Shovel is a modern take on the tool that helped build America. Lightweight and collapsible, you can use it to set up camp in the very national parks and campgrounds shaped by the military entrenching tool that inspired it or to beautify your domain. (When you’re preparing your campfire, use it to shovel coal - or if you’re camping with no existing fire pit, the folding camp shovel makes quick work of the project!) A 3-way locking collar and manganese steel blade make it adaptable enough for any terrain. Learn more about this history of the folding shovel.
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Saws
Cutting deadwood and pruning your backyard trees has never been easier, thanks to our Timber Saw. Instead of the cumbersome back-and-forth sawing motion of a typical handsaw, this blade uses more of a push-strike motion - think a machete with teeth. This creates a safer, more ergonomic cut
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Knives
A versatile knife is essential in the outdoors. Enter the No. 6 Field Knife. We took a traditional utility knife and made deliberate improvements-- a thumb depress on the base of the full tang blade, a copper lanyard ring, a walnut handle--and elevated it with heritage-quality materials. Whether you’re foraging for dinner or preparing it, our Field Knife is the blade you’ll turn to again and again.
We’ve developed this set of foundational tools for anyone seeking to embark on a life lived outdoors. Whether you’re expanding your collection or just selecting one blade to start, you’ll find that these tools are essential to a seamless outdoor experience.
