This comes from this Edgemaster company that makes knife sharpeners.
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Meh, I do that with my legs every few days.
Those guys were never Boy Scouts! They don’t even know the proper way to pass around those sharp implements of destruction! Hope they never drop one, otherwise someone could lose a leg!!
In all seriousness, hatchets are not supposed to be so sharp you can shave with them. They’ll stick horribly if they are that sharp.
That kind of an edge doesn’t last long at all.
It doesn’t have to be, no, but it’s still pretty cool lol.
He probably has a boot full of dismembered German tourists.
here is another video from them
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qL6pyjR8PtE
There’s nothing wrong with getting an ax or hatchet as sharp as you can. You use them they don’t stay that way very long.
I’m not impressed except by the homemade blade made out of a band saw blade. That one looks like it can be given an edge and keep it.
The rest are stainless steel and there are metallurgical reasons why that can’t be given a proper edge nor will whatever edge you give them last as long. It has to do with the fact that the edge immediately corrodes to a given depth, in effect dulling the blade almost immediately, and that the metal is more porous.
My wife’s favorite kitchen implement is a Japanese 8″ cleaver made of high strength carbon steel. Mine are a 8″ vegetable cleaver and a 14″ sushi knife.
Our knives are not stainless steel which means we have to wipe them with cloths right away (no letting them stand in a dirty sink full of water neither,) but they are sharp as Hell.
I hone them to a 15º to 17º angle and they keep that edge for months.
Every couple of months I take an hour or so and sharpen them on a honing stone and finish them on a strap and they keep that 15º sharpness.
My wife can cut right through a frozen chicken with a single hack with the meat cleaver.
I can chop all of the vegetables without getting tired.
I love my homemade sushi and sashimi. Maguro (tuna) has no chance of going to waste in my kitchen. 🙂
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