Learn the metal blade blueprint before this one. It sits at the same Level 2 bench for half the scrap, and it turns the five blades from a barrel lottery into a short queue of frags and scrap. Without it, one axe eats every blade a road run brings home.
The metal pipe is the part you still have to find. Crafting one waits for a Level 3 bench, so until then it comes from road barrels, crates or a gun in the recycler. The salvaged icepick wants the identical bill, and the first pipe of the wipe goes to only one of them. Give it to whatever your group farms most. When the furnaces need charcoal for a sulfur cook, that is the axe.
A worn axe is better repaired than recycled: the recycler returns only some of the blades, and the pipe about half the time. The next rung for wood is the chainsaw, once gears and fuel are already in the box.
Questions
Salvaged Axe ×10: how many resources?
Metal Blade ×50, Metal Pipe ×10.
Which workbench does Salvaged Axe need?
Workbench level 2.
How long does Salvaged Axe take to craft?
25 s for one, every step included.
How much scrap does researching Salvaged Axe take?
