A couple newish wood choppers

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It's more than a dad joke. I like to make things from inappropriate materials to learn about the form and the material. It shows me how things fail. It helps me understand why things are shaped the way they, or were, if looking at a historical tool shape. Also much more fun than making the same old!

It is interesting to see cutting in which the tool and workpiece are of such similar material (advanced lignin-cellulose composite).

The axe seemed to do better than a mallet anyway. It stuck readily enough in the wet-looking end grain of the log.

- How did it behave cutting green softwood?
- Did you do anything to harden the cutting edge?
- What was the apex angle?
- What variety of wood did you use for the bit? (A predictable question, I know.)
- Did the edge blunt by squashing, fraying, abrasion, sogginess? Something else?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/10/2023 07:44PM by alkali.