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Excellent chisel edge. Looks sharp as hell!
Very nice, and also hilarious!L & I J White carpenter's adze. Really nice, beefy piece. Lots of thickkkkk steal. It's pretty dang hard, too. It took an Inox file to cut the steel. Ruined a big oberg for hard steel henceforth. I went with 25° hopefully as a happy medium, I had to take out a pretty substantial convex.
Files, stones, a dollop of 1500 at the end before the final edge.
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Well done man that is beautiful! Takes a damn long time to get something that flat and that polished. Fmont's "this is how you sharpen an adze" post!L & I J White carpenter's adze. Really nice, beefy piece. Lots of thickkkkk steal. It's pretty dang hard, too. It took an Inox file to cut the steel. Ruined a big oberg for hard steel henceforth. I went with 25° hopefully as a happy medium, I had to take out a pretty substantial convex.
Files, stones, a dollop of 1500 at the end before the final edge.
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Oh yeah, it's an edge, it shaves easy. It just needed to be set up, it'll be fun to try it out
I am not a carpenter adze user but FWIW on a recent visit to an archeological site of an 18th century French fort (https://bladeforums.com/threads/the-members-discussion-thread.1644464/page-14#post-19180572) I got to talking to one of the archeologists who studied and practiced log building techniques of the period. It was pretty easy to get him talking about the tools and during our chat he mentioned something I hadn't heard before that because adzes had rectangular eyes their handles could be rotated 180 degrees to give steeper or shallower angles for the blade entering the wood.
Here is a comparison I did with an adze to illustrate the two positions:
Just thought this was interesting and might add to the discussion.
Bob
L & I J White carpenter's adze. Really nice, beefy piece. Lots of thickkkkk steal. It's pretty dang hard, too. It took an Inox file to cut the steel. Ruined a big oberg for hard steel henceforth. I went with 25° hopefully as a happy medium, I had to take out a pretty substantial convex.
Files, stones, a dollop of 1500 at the end before the final edge.
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I'm not quite sure how I missed that detail in that highly polished finish! Lol. I couldn't understand what was so hilarious about your post! I thought Meek1 had misunderstood something you said or something! Haha.Very nice, and also hilarious!
I wasn't going to give him up. And I was ok with people thinking I was nuts to protect his secret.I'm not quite sure how I missed that detail in that highly polished finish! Lol. I couldn't understand what was so hilarious about your post! I thought Meek1 had misunderstood something you said or something! Haha.
Now when I finally see the joke, there you are sticking your tongue out at me! Guess I deserve it! I'm still chuckling...
Explained that way it sounds to me like an old timer having fun pulling one over on somebody.Frankly, I have not sharpened anything this morning ... yet, but that may be in the offing. I have been perusing a historical book from my extensive library that has a copyright of 1936 although the edition I am reading from is the twentieth printing dated December of 1964. It shows tattered corners, yellowing pages and a good spine all of which reflect on the importance that I placed on McCormick's work in writing this treatise on the early days of logging in North America. It has exposed to me again to a unique method of axe sharpening that I had completely forgotten about until last night as I re-read this old book from my younger days. I am wondering how many of you have utilized this method of keeping a nice edge on your working axes when on the job and your usual sharpening tools are nowhere nearby?
Now quoting from the book: "The Seven Axemen used great double-bitted axes that an ordinary man could not lift. When the axes became dull they would start a round, flat rock rolling down the hillside and run beside it holding the blades of their axes against the rock until they were sharp again".
As seventy years of age approaches in the not so distant future and the Drs. telling me I need two new knees and cataracts removed, the thought of running blindly beside a rolling rock down a hillside with my trusty axe in my arthritic hands in the dim light of a forested acreage has me seeing a visit to an Emergency Room if I give this method a try or in a worst case scenario missing my seventieth birthday and any hopes of having more of them. Could any of you younger fellows that are in your physical "prime" and still possessing all your faculties give this a try and report back on how well it works before I risk life and limb on something that may prove futile for an old man in dotage?
Explained that way it sounds to me like an old timer having fun pulling one over on somebody.
Now if you had a perfectly round flat rock and you got downhill in front of it and slowly walked backwards I can see it working in the best of circumstances.
I can kinda picture one of our ANCIENT ancestors trying it? Rolling it down a perfectly flat track made in a groove on a tree trunk maybe? Otherwise I can't see how it could work! It's hard enough to hold your angle on an old sandstone wheel with a wobble. Let alone a rolling rock bouncing and slicing this way and that!!
Sounds like a story told to a young man his first day on the job. I can see the old hands hugging their guts and laughing to beat hell watching a young'n chasing a damn rock downhill. Haha. Akin to us sending the newbie for the "skyhook"or the "board stretcher".