Thread: To Scythe or not to scythe...

Originally Posted by Utopian

I've never seen that part before. The analogy is flawed in that an axe stroke cuts straight into a tree and it does not correspond with the cutting angle of a scything stroke.

the article is describing the straight-down stroke there to contrast with the forthcoming description of the scything stroke. I think it's a little confusing. Since we don't use the wiki-talk pages, I suppose a rewrite could be discussed here

I'm in the scything camp. There are some strokes I need to make that just would not be possible without it. I don't think I have ever tried had the goal of using scything to reduce my shave to one pass. I will give that some experimentation. But I can tell you if you have the dexterity to comfortably and safely pull it off, scything is a great tool to have in your bag of tricks - JMHO also.

Originally Posted by hoglahoo

the article is describing the straight-down stroke there to contrast with the forthcoming description of the scything stroke. I think it's a little confusing. Since we don't use the wiki-talk pages, I suppose a rewrite could be discussed here

Sorry, I mis-read (mis-thought) that and didn't notice that is was a contrast not a comparison.