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It's that time of year again around here -- the blackberry creepers are growing so quickly that you can just about watch them move and the ivy's making a serious effort to reclaim the driveway. The hasiya had been hanging up and gathering dust since last fall; I broke it out, touched up the edge, and put it to work.
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The hasiya (and my hand), after the work detail and with the blood cleaned up (those thorns will get ya, let me tell you):
The hasiya after the hot water and green scrubby treatment:
Yep, the etch is still visible after nearly a year in service...I told you this wasn't the usual steel. Note the ding, right in the middle of the hardened zone. Remember last year when I wacked that pipe sticking out of the ground? Yeah, I got it again this year. That thing's got a magnet in it or something. The result is a small ripple that I might be able to iron out with a chakmak; if not, it'll grind out during the next sharpening.
All in all, twenty minutes of work bought me another week or two of rest. What with the current dry spell and all I don't think that I'll be cutting as much brush this summer as last time, but you never know.
Initially I had my doubts about the round symmetrical handle but I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. It makes it very simple to change grips on the fly and allows the edge to cut from pretty much any angle effectively -- useful when one is trying to trim around concrete. (Or that damned pipe. I hate that pipe.)
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
Before:
After:
The hasiya (and my hand), after the work detail and with the blood cleaned up (those thorns will get ya, let me tell you):
The hasiya after the hot water and green scrubby treatment:
Yep, the etch is still visible after nearly a year in service...I told you this wasn't the usual steel. Note the ding, right in the middle of the hardened zone. Remember last year when I wacked that pipe sticking out of the ground? Yeah, I got it again this year. That thing's got a magnet in it or something. The result is a small ripple that I might be able to iron out with a chakmak; if not, it'll grind out during the next sharpening.
All in all, twenty minutes of work bought me another week or two of rest. What with the current dry spell and all I don't think that I'll be cutting as much brush this summer as last time, but you never know.
Initially I had my doubts about the round symmetrical handle but I'm finally starting to get the hang of it. It makes it very simple to change grips on the fly and allows the edge to cut from pretty much any angle effectively -- useful when one is trying to trim around concrete. (Or that damned pipe. I hate that pipe.)
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