Thank you for putting this video up, I personally appreciate old school ways of doing things and craftsmanship. These are skills that will be lost forever unless people put them out there for others to learn! Thanks again!
As a city guy, I throughly enjoyed and learned much from this video, Thank you for sharing this. The craftsmanship in this video is priceless, I wish there were more of this content available to learn from. I can only try to imagine how beautiful and awesome the mature forest work was about one hundred years ago.
The series "An axe to grind" is contradictory regarding the use of metal wedges placed perpendicular to the grain of the wood. In part 1 of the series, the narrator said to never use metal wedges on the top side of the axe head (perpendicular to the wood grain and to the wooden wedge) because it would break the grain of the wood within the head of the axe. In this second part, the man does recommend the use of such metal wedges. Well, which is it? Though while I offer this small criticism, "An axe to grind" is probably one of my all time favorite video series on youtube. It is unbelievable how much terrible advice and ignorance is spread by self proclaimed "axe experts" on youtube regarding the use and maintenance of an axe. These forest service guys are probably the last major group of people in the US who truly retain the knowledge for how to properly use and maintain an axe so that it is a safe, long lasting and efficient tool. Being able to hear their honest advice is almost priceless. In addition to this, I love the quaint, homely feeling this series gives off. It feels like I am casually talking to a nice, slow going old timer who knows his stuff. Thank you for this video.
I am no expert, but I think the guy was trying to say that he wants to shape the axe bevel so that the axe edge meets the wood at an angle, so that the axe will better bite into the wood. A flat bevel will almost always have the first contact between the axe and the wood be at a single point, thus having the greatest possible initial force per area, and thus the greatest "bite". The better the axe bites into the wood, the less likely the axe edge will bounce off the wood and bite into your leg instead.
Thank you for putting this video up, I personally appreciate old school ways of doing things and craftsmanship. These are skills that will be lost forever unless people put them out there for others to learn! Thanks again!
As a city guy, I throughly enjoyed and learned much from this video, Thank you for sharing this. The craftsmanship in this video is priceless, I wish there were more of this content available to learn from. I can only try to imagine how beautiful and awesome the mature forest work was about one hundred years ago.
The series "An axe to grind" is contradictory regarding the use of metal wedges placed perpendicular to the grain of the wood. In part 1 of the series, the narrator said to never use metal wedges on the top side of the axe head (perpendicular to the wood grain and to the wooden wedge) because it would break the grain of the wood within the head of the axe. In this second part, the man does recommend the use of such metal wedges. Well, which is it?
Though while I offer this small criticism, "An axe to grind" is probably one of my all time favorite video series on youtube. It is unbelievable how much terrible advice and ignorance is spread by self proclaimed "axe experts" on youtube regarding the use and maintenance of an axe. These forest service guys are probably the last major group of people in the US who truly retain the knowledge for how to properly use and maintain an axe so that it is a safe, long lasting and efficient tool. Being able to hear their honest advice is almost priceless.
In addition to this, I love the quaint, homely feeling this series gives off. It feels like I am casually talking to a nice, slow going old timer who knows his stuff.
Thank you for this video.
Yeah i agree with u about the differing grady wedge opinions the different gentlemen have. I love these older series too.
Nice Hytest Tassie!!! (15:00)
I dont know why youd get rid of the curve in the edge.
I mean literally the curve in the bit allows more force in the same are
Area*
I am no expert, but I think the guy was trying to say that he wants to shape the axe bevel so that the axe edge meets the wood at an angle, so that the axe will better bite into the wood. A flat bevel will almost always have the first contact between the axe and the wood be at a single point, thus having the greatest possible initial force per area, and thus the greatest "bite". The better the axe bites into the wood, the less likely the axe edge will bounce off the wood and bite into your leg instead.
23:50 Aww, a dog.
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