Resources
Finding reliable sources, or any source at all, for tools and supplies can be a challenge when you get started in any craft. Here is a list of places I have personally done business with and can recommend. There are certainly others I'm forgetting at the moment. I'll do my best to update the list as time goes on.
Instructional vidoes, high quality blogs and General goodness
Woodwrights shop/school – https://www.woodwrightschool.com – Roy Underhill and friends.
Lost art press – https://lostartpress.com – books, videos, blog
Peter Follansbee - https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com - Green woodworking, 17th century carving, general wisdom
Peter Ross - https://www.peterrossblacksmith.com - Blacksmith (and more), Teacher, more wisdom
Wood and shop - https://store.woodandshop.com/product-category/woodworking-dvd-videos/ - Projects and tool making mostly
Tool collectors and used tool sales
Hyperkitten – https://hyperkitten.com – Used tools.
Patrick Leach AKA supertool.com – http://http://www.supertool.com – Used tools. Monthly mailing list
List of Tool collector's groups
https://www.oldtools.com/clubs/New Tools and supplies
Lie Nielsen – https://www.lie-nielsen.com – Fantastic quality new tools
Lee Valley - https://www.leevalley.com/
Highland woodworking – https://www.highlandwoodworking.com/index.aspx
Tools for working wood – https://toolsforworkingwood.com
Milk paint – https://www.realmilkpaint.com
Cut nails – https://tremontnail.com
Spoon carving / sloyd knives
– Morakniv 106 (straight) and 164 (hook). Available on Amazon for around $25 each.
Axes
Gransfors Bruk – https://www.gransforsbruk.com/en/ - If you have the means, I highly recommend.
Harbor Frieght – https://www.harborfreight.com/axe-with-hickory-handle-65729.html – I have found very nice examples of this axe in store. You need to pick through and find one where the eye is straight and the bit of the blade is not toooo chuncky. Spend and hour or so with an angle grinder and flap disk to get the cutting geometry slimmed down. Scrape the crappy varnish off the handle, sand or shave it until it is comfortable in your hand. I like to clean the paint off the head and polish it up with a bench grinder and soft polishing wheel. Even with all this work I think this hatchet is an excellent value.