How sharp do you want it?

Found this while looking for hones.
Shave your arm hair with a double headed axe?
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/...823/fig073.jpg

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/...823/page15.htm

Tony H.

AAD?

LOL, J.

That's no axe - that's a Papabull custom DE wedge.

Perhaps this guy's hoping to ringbark some trees?

James.

OK, I have nothing constructive to say about this but.......





What on earth is an axe manual doing on the Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration's website :shrug:

I was watching some woodchopping championship on the local TV station here (hey it is Germany after all) and the guys were sharpening their axes with what I swear were yellow belgian coticules, and they really were testing the sharpness on their arm hairs.

Frightening watching these things being wielded - especially the round where they have to stand on top of a log, and chop through it - meaning they are swinging the axe between their feet!!!!!

Si

I learned to use an axe when I was a Boy Scout... which was so long ago that Boy Scouts were still encouraged to use axes!

Belive me, when you're cutting a log with an axe, you want it to be as sharp as you can possibly get it. A razor-sharp axe cuts into the log -- it hits where you point it and it stays there. A dull axe will bounce all over the place. You are far less likely to hurt yourself with a razor-sharp axe than you are with a dull one.

The same is true of knives, too. I have a few knives that are worn only "for show" with historical costumes. I keep these so dull that you can saw on your arm with them and not break the skin. But my rule for knives is that they should either be shaving-sharp or completely rounded and dull. Anything in between is likely to cause someone to get hurt.

I have a handmade axe made by an axemeister in Sweden, it was sharp enough to slice a hanging piece of paper when it arrived - though I never tried it on my arm hairs. I'm told it can take a shaving edge, maybe I'll get it on the 4K/8K one day if I get bored. :D

http://www.gransfors.com/htm_eng/index.html

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Originally Posted by Sunsi

Frightening watching these things being wielded - especially the round where they have to stand on top of a log, and chop through it - meaning they are swinging the axe between their feet!!!!!

Si

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And yet some shave commando! More Dangerous?:hmmm:
Tony H.

If I were to shave my commandos, I think I'd used something other than an axe, but then I suppose it's like the old saw, "whatever edge cuts.":hmmm:

Bruce

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Originally Posted by portal5

More Dangerous?
Tony H.

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Yes, you rang?

LOL, J.