S.A Wetterling

1880, Sven Axel Wetterling started manufacturing axes, broad-axes and bark shovels for the then-thriving forest industry. At first he was situated in Bäckefors Mill in Dalsland. 1885 Wetterling’s moved the business to Storvik – a small town with an important railway for the transport and handling of raw materials. Also, the proximity to the iron and steel was an advantage. Hydropower in Vallbyån was obviously a necessary resource. Six households, the Wetterling brothers, the blacksmiths Hane, Ljung and Lundström and the grinder Petterson, moved to Storvik.

Wetterlings is an axe forge in Storvik in the middle of Sweden. We have been on the premises, making tools, since over a hundred years. We are at present 14 people forging axes and tools as well as shafting axes.

Our philosophy: You cannot really own antique axe forges – they belong to the common industrial history – but you can take on the responsibility for preserving them and for transferring the knowledge created by previous generations. Hopefully it will survive its keepers.

Wetterling is probably the oldest, still producing, traditional axe manufacturer in the world.