Granfors axe experience?

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Cliff Stamp

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Anyone used one of these? How thin are they ground? How do they cut? How durable are the edges? How often do they need work?

-Cliff
 
I've handled them at Lee Valley Tools but they threw me out for excessive drooling (same thing happens at the Harley Davidson shop). Nice tools, really, really nice. You wouldn't want to throw one of these into the bed of the pickup.
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cliff Stamp:
Anyone used one of these? How thin are they ground? How do they cut? How durable are the edges?</font>
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I've got one of the smaller ones and like it.
The blade is 2.0 mm thick 4-4.5 mm from the edge, full convex grind and very sharp as delivered.
Works well as long as it's only wood you hit. Perfectly usable as a replacement for a knife as you can shave small pieces of wood with it and the like. Haven't tried it on any really hard wood.



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I have two...the hunters model, and the carpenters carving axe.
The hunters axe is my most prized out of six axes, it is a joy to use. Blade is ground very thin ,for an axe, I used it to field dress a couple of moose and dinged the edge.When redoing the edge I sharpen at a more reasonable angle, 30 deg , have yet to use it but bet that will be the ticket
 
Ray Mears uses them. He has enough experience to know; thats enough for me. I'll be having one in 2001. www.raymears.com

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Chipping on bone and such was one of my concerns as well as was chopping on knotty and/or frozen wood. Does anyone know what steel they are forged from?

Budman, roughly how much damage did you see? Are we talking about just visible denting / chipping, or damage that is easily visible at say arms length.

-Cliff
 
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cliff Stamp:
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Just that it's high carbon and differentially tempered.

 
Cliff...Just a small dent, it eaisily filed out. I hit one of the femors and it was hell for stout. My sharpening kit has a small 6 in file for dents from rock, bone and what have you. Blades start to look " serrated " after a few trips, I'm not too careful, it's a tool and gets used hard...
 
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