todays a good day to have an axe-off

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phantomknives

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The rules are simple, take a 2by, 2x4 2x6 doesnt matter the thickness of it, prop it up thin end to the sky with grain running parallel with the ground and chop, 3 times specificly. .5" is the benchmark from a generic jersey. make sure your entire blade comes into contact with the board and share pictures, i used a legitimus swamper for my test. the jersey i have in the picture is the one used for benchmarking. http://imgur.com/gallery/8OdWZ legitimus got about 6/10" and i already mentioned the jersey's cut. anyway, try this for yourselves, lets have some friendly competition
 
It's relatively easy to find a weak 2 x 4 that'll have a hefty axe with an experienced user break right through it, like a karate chop, during the first swipe. Chopping dead perpendicular to the grain of anything (2 x 4, 2 x 6 or even a tree) proves nothing.
 
so what would you propose, using materials accessible nearly everywhere in the world as not to exclude anyone and easily repeatable with reliable results, a cross cut instead of straight down?
 
I'm not suggesting anything. Watch a couple of Basque competitive automobile shell or log choppers in action and you'll see for yourself. Enthusiastically smacking a 2 x 4 is not a test of anything.
Years back when I was roofing and framing houses in BC the boss sent us out a lift of 1/2 inch Douglas fir plywood. Holy smokes did that set us back. You couldn't drive a nail through the stuff to save your life and yet it looked just like any other 'common' sheathing.
 
300Six said:
I'm not suggesting anything. Watch a couple of Basque competitive automobile shell or log choppers in action and you'll see for yourself. Enthusiastically smacking a 2 x 4 is not a test of anything.
Years back when I was roofing and framing houses in BC the boss sent us out a lift of 1/2 inch Douglas fir plywood. Holy smokes did that set us back. You couldn't drive a nail through the stuff to save your life and yet it looked just like any other 'common' sheathing.
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Fir plywood is for sissy's, try some good ol' yeller pine, now that will send nails a singing!
 
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