Posted by TimV on July 17, 2013 at 06:32:30 from (142.105.255.121):
In Reply to: Re: sharp ax posted by Stan in Oly, WA on July 16, 2013 at 23:28:16:
Stan: yes, you would notice a considerable difference--an axe that has been properly sharpened will need much less effort to do the same amount of work, it will re-sharpen easier, and it will be less susceptible to damage. Also, when you say "chop wood or tree roots", please note that those are typically two distinct uses for an axe. Traditionally, a double-bit axe has the two sides sharpened in two distinct fashions--one side "keen", or shaving-sharp, and the other side "stunt", or with a blunter bevel and not to the same level of sharpness. The keen side is used for felling trees or chopping clear wood, and the stunt side is used for chopping roots, limbing, occasionally splitting kindling, and other tasks where it's more susceptible to damage. Most axes today come with very poor edges, incorrectly formed bevels, second-rate steel, and in general are just not very good tools. Of course, in today's world, most work that was once done with an axe is now done with power tools, and even then the average person in an average day has little use for an axe, unlike the days when wood was the primary fuel and building material, and so the knowledge and appreciation of that knowledge has slowly dwindled. Trust me, if you have a good axe and a poor axe and spend an hour using each of them, it will become immediately apparent what the extra time spent doing the sharpening will gain you--there's no comparison between a good axe properly sharpened and a poor one poorly done, and even a poor axe can be considerably improved by properly shaping the bevel and edge to reflect the type of work you plan on doing with it.
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