Brant & Cochran is a South Portland-based maker of the Allagash Cruiser—the only Maine wedge-pattern camp axe—forged from 1050 carbon steel in their own workshop.
Brant & Cochran is an independent outdoor gear business based in Greater Portland. The South Portland forge produces the Allagash Cruiser camp axe and a small line of Maine-made hand tools, drawing on the state's history as a 19th-century axe-making capital and forging each piece by hand from 1050 carbon steel.
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