Deep down, every modern gentleman harbouring a beard secretly yearns to fell timber in the Canadian wilderness. While your daily reality involves quarterly spreadsheets and passive-aggressive emails, the DMOS Axpedition Hybrid Axe ($69 / ~£55) lets you channel that inner frontiersman. Featuring a forged carbon-steel blade coated in non-stick PTFE and a featherlight hollow fibreglass handle, it is compact enough to strap to your overland rig yet mean enough to split campfire logs in a single swing. It is the ultimate tool for proving you can provide for your clan—even if you’re only hacking kindling for the garden chiminea.

DMOS – $69