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Well, it's not that the file didn't bite. It did. But is was really not very convincing.
What didn't help is that I set out to maintain the angle of the bevels.

This axe was really like a big...

I just checked, and the record was 8ish minutes, not seconds.
And I was already thinking of challenging that record, but sadly guinness discintinued it on account of being 'too dangerous'. Bunch of...

Well, I shaved with it this morning.
The shave went OK, but I'd be lying if I said it was
a) comfortable
b) smooth

The lack of comfort is caused by the fact that the bloody thing has to be held...

Well Duh I know that it is pointless to put a razors edge on a log splitter.
But that didn't make it any less fun, and tomorrow I am going to shave with it, just for kicks. :D It mows down arm hairs...

Any tool which touches the hone on more than one point makes it impossible to wear the stone evenly.
My friend's log splitter is like a giant quarter hollow with the spine and bevels touching the...

But the quick dishing also means that the bevels becom severely rounded.
Going to the next step (starting with a flat hone) means you have to hone away an awful lot of metal before the new hone...

Some time ago a friend of mine asked me to repair his log splitting axe. He had lent it to his FIL, who thought that splitting logs can be done on cobbles :eek::rant:

Anyway since it is shaped...