Sharpening a hawk

swimmerdude1127

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Do you guys sharpen your hawks at similar angles to your knives or do you keep the edge at a shallower angle to prevent chips, rolling, and just have a tougher edge in general?
 
The only thing I aim for is thin enough to cut properly. No need to go any less of an angle, and any higher will make it useless.

What makes it cut properly is something only you can decide. That said I find the edge on most axes way too thick.
 
i take the shoulder off of mine before i use them and keep them at a healthy sized convex
 
Good question, I'm curious to see what everyone does. My sfa is sharp enough to pushcut paper, i havent taken the hawk plunge yet.
 
I'm going to be purchasing my first hatchet, a Gransfor Bruks Wilderness Hatchet, and I was kind of curious as well.

I don't know a lot on the subject, but it seems that hatchets, hawks, and axes are made with a lower rockwell hardness than most knives to make them tougher and more resilient to the blunt force that they endure. How do you think this knowledge, if it is a fact, would impact the edge geometry of one of these tools?
 
I sharpen all knives, hatchets, tomahawks and axes on a Spyderco Triangle Sharpmaker set at 40degrees.

Works for me.
 
jgon said:
I'm going to be purchasing my first hatchet, a Gransfor Bruks Wilderness Hatchet, and I was kind of curious as well.

I don't know a lot on the subject, but it seems that hatchets, hawks, and axes are made with a lower rockwell hardness than most knives to make them tougher and more resilient to the blunt force that they endure. How do you think this knowledge, if it is a fact, would impact the edge geometry of one of these tools?
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the edge is pretty hard and unless it has been used it could be one of the scariest damned things you have ever owned right out of the box.

honestly do we really need hatchet or axe sharp enough to shave the fuzz off a frog?:D
 
Agreed. Sharper is better.

We can discuss edge angles on hawks, but edge refinement should be as fine as possible.


Ookami
 
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