Fiskars Hatchet Question.

[Halfneck]

I am looking at getting a Fiskars hatchet after all the stuff I have heard on them. The only complaint they seem to have is that they need to be re-profiled. I've never re-profiled an axe before, so could someone give me some advice please?

 

[JimM]

My suggestion is to use it awhile before worrying about re-profiling it. I've been sharpening mine using the factory angle. For my purposes (and for the price), it works fine as is. YMMV.
Jim

 

[shecky]

They don't need to be reprofiled. Knife nuts are all about grinding and sharpening and polishing and optimizing whether needed or not. Keep that in mind when reading stuff on the forum. Unfortunately, it simply takes experience to know which advice to follow, and which can be discarded.

 

[Fonly]

They don't need to be reprofiled. Knife nuts are all about grinding and sharpening and polishing and optimizing whether needed or not. Keep that in mind when reading stuff on the forum. Unfortunately, it simply takes experience to know which advice to follow, and which can be discarded.

Thats how I feel. And yes, I reprofiled mine but it DID NOT NEED IT. It was a fine working axe, I just wanted a more personalized axe, which worked the exact way I wanted it to.

 

[k-spar]

Hi guys, I realize they don't NEED to be reprofiled, but if one were to do it, how would you?
Just lengthen the bevel/make it a smaller angle?

 

[johnny reb]

When I was a Kid(18), I worked for a man who ran a wood business. He tought me how to sharpen an axe. It has to be a convex edge. Just round it out with a file, keeping it even. I used my Fiskars hatchet as it came, on some oak. It completely ruined the edge within a few minutes. After taking a file and rounding out the edges, giving it a good " apple seed" edge, as my boss used to call it. It`s stronger and doesn`t chip as easy.