Design Hipster Kicking It Too Old School With His Chic Tools

A local importer of high-end, hand-made axes from Maine, who then paints them and sells them for $180, is concerned about being perceived as, he said, “just some design hipster kicking it old-school selling some chic tools to a handful of other hipsters.” How so? Whatever do you mean? Tom Scocca notes that “his website also sells a $165 leather sling for wearing an ax on one’s back and a $35 metal whistle.”