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Hate to be this way but many people are just too lazy to learn to sharpen. They would rather pay big money for super steel knives and send them back to the factory to sharpen. Instead of buying one of the many knives that you can touch up as you go
There is a difference between building a house and being able to sharpen an axe or knife. You can build a house and (1) live there all all your life . You buy an new axe or knife unless you put it on a shelf and never use it It will need sharpened (2) regularly . There may come a time when you have to depend on those tools. (3)You need to know how to sharpen . It is a skill every adult should have. I have got to the point that if someone asks me to sharpen a tool I will teach them how but won't do it for them .
By the way I can build a house if necessary too
Sears has a Vaughan and Bushnell for $17. Craftsman.Check out the Vaughan & Bushnell camp axe.
It's not expensive or fancy, but they use an excellent steel.
For splitting kindling while camping you really don't need much.
If you want a little work then rehab a vintage American head.
Yup. It ain't rocket science. We were sharpening axes and hatchets as young teens in the Boy Scouts. The skill is a very basic one easily learned.Maybe I am just from the generation that believes that there are basic things an adult should know how to do
Yes they should for now, if there's still a Sears left near you.Sears has a Vaughan and Bushnell for $17. Craftsman.
Maybe I am just from the generation that believes that there are basic things an adult should know how to do.
Yup. It ain't rocket science. We were sharpening axes and hatchets as young teens in the Boy Scouts. The skill is a very basic one easily learned.
That's complete and utter BS. Has nothing to do with generation. My son can sharpen an ax. Again, it isn't rocket science. Millions upon millions of men have learned the skill.You sound uncertain, but I can already tell you that you're statement is wrong simply because you used "the" instead of "a." Also sounds like you're trying to say your generation is greater, which is highly subjective since that doesn't state what you're better at.
Further, I didn't learn how to sharpen a knife until a couple years ago but I knew plenty about rocket science in my teens, since leghog wanted to bring an unrelated discussion into this one. Of course they're not the same, one is a subject matter comprised of multiple science and one is the application or skill from a set of sciences, if you wanted to get technical about it. More related would be shooting off a rocket, pretty simple to do but not a necessary life skill. Something else I would have performed before sharpening a knife.
Bringing up Boy Scouts supports my point. That's why I brought it up. If a 13 year old can learn to sharpen an ax, an adult certainly can.Bringing in the boys scouts argument reinforces my point, not hinders. If it were important then society would more likely have left it in schools with home ec and shop class. Those were removed so that subjects like rocket science could be taught (physics, math, chemistry). Teachings of that was relegated to smaller groups like boy scouts. Doesn't make the skills useless, just not necessary for humans to thrive.
O.F.F.S.! Please.Leghog, since I assume you were trying to point out the differences in complexities instead of just building a list of things that aren't knife sharpening, I give you these thoughts. Complexity of a task should not determine whether we learn it or not. Significance should. Significance towards what goal or path is a different topic but to use complexity as the measure of whether we all need to learn something is overly simplistic. In business and in life, it is common, and often ideal, to delegate simple and/or repetitive tasks so that we can work on higher priority items with the limited resources we have.
It's only a necessary life skill if you want to buyvand use tools requiring the skill. Most participating here on these BF fora fall into that category.Finally, this discussion has taken enough from this thread and if you would like to continue the discussion I would happily start a thread to continue. I enjoy philosophy and psychology and getting BF's perspective on knife sharpening as a necessary life skill could be interesting, or entertaining at least. I'll tag the both of you in it once I've created it. Maybe it goes no where, maybe it strikes an interesting conversation for a slow weekend.
Council Tools Sport Utility 14" Camp Hatchet. 1 lbs 6 oz head, 14" hickory handle, high centerline, eye ridges, Made in America.
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Fiskars and Cold Steel are both reasonable choices. Decent steel, decent product.