Mate, I'm an axe guy, and I love your take on it! I remember your old axe vids, precious memories😁😁 dunno why people would watch an axe vid then cry when you cut down a tree, I think they're forgetting axes are tools and not ornaments. Keep it up Pete
Something that has come to my attention watching this channel over the years is, just how far hard work, common sense & decentcy will take you in this life. I feel like Pete is doing more for 20 to 30 year old guys, than just making internet videos. (At least l hope this is the case)
I've done the same thing with a machete and barbed wire. When I was firefighting we'd use files. Probably a little overkill in the metal removal department, but it works.
Didn't have to cut firewood solely to heat the house like my dad did, but we had a fireplace growing up and kept a fire burning almost every day in the winter. We always sharpened our axes and hatchets with a file. I imagine a "paper cutting" edge on an axe will fold pretty quickly when you start chopping, anyway.
A good file is 100% the way to go! With a little attention and a subtle touch I can get arm shaving edges off a file from a chipped and blunted machete in under 3 mins! It's such a nice and simple way to sharpening that for my larger edged tools like machetes and axes now I will not go for something too hard to be used with a file
G'day Pete, yeah any number of ways to sharpen or indeed re-profile an axe/hatchet. I generally just use a file, (or two), to get the basic convex without dings, then finish with diamonds or a puck, (which really only cleans up the file teeth marks), a few strops no probs. Cheers Duke.
I used to work in a sawmill, you'd be amazed at the amount of metallic junk you find embedded in trees. It's exciting when your head rig saw explodes on contact with a rail spike that the metal detector missed.
My favourite way for heavy impact tools, get a soft backed wet and dry sandpaper holder, with fitting 400 grit paper! Makes a perfect convex and is super easy!
I hit a nail in the trunk of a small pine with one of my custom Bark River axes. It cut right through the nail but dinged the edge similarly. I left some of the deepest ones and they'll come out eventually. Every vintage head I have rehandled has dings.
Thanks for the video. I have used my Tormek T-4 to sharpen this same brand of axe, and was able to fix the blade in just a few minutes. Not only can it take out chips quickly, but putting the edge back on is really easy.
Another good common sense video! I have a pretty basic hatchet that I have sharpened with first a file and then I handheld the removable diamond plates from the Worksharp Field Sharpener. Easy, quick, and back to work!
I use DMT plates on my axes when there is a large damage spot, then i hone them using a spyderco double stuff. Piece of cake! It's really important to keep a razor sharp edge on your axes because it helps your stitches heal faster when you put one into your hand. Ask me how i know.
Cool axe vid, those DMT stones are great I picked up the Extra Coarse and Extra Extra coarse ones as well as the standard ones that come with the kit for reprofiling and doing garden tools. They are great and lightweight enough that they are very portable too. I also picked up the credit card ones and they work great as well. At home I use venev stones for most everything but there are many quality portable sharpeners from Worksharp and DMT as well. Don't have to break the bank to get good sharp edges. Thanks for the great vid and keep making sharp things fun and enjoyable
A mill bastard file is more efficient in removing the chipped edge of an axe. Once you have removed the chips and reestablished the grind angle you can refine the edge with the diamond stones or an axe puck.
The carpenter axes have thin bits and are a bit more susceptible to damage, but a chain will wreck even robust tools. A file will help to get rid of chips like that quickly, or even using something course like Brickys backside.
I love how your treat your bigger knife and axes as tools, it gave me the confidence to sharpen my falkniven f1. It doesn't matter how it looks if it's sharp
I am probably too picky with axe sharpening, but I will say that keeping the final angle of the edge to 50-55* inclusive with a less pronounced convex makes for a noticeably more enjoyable experience in use for me-especially with smaller hatchets. Like knives, too chunky and it’s less of a cutter and more of a hammer. Though I agree, if it’s sharp it’s good enough!
i have their foresters axe…. and I absolutely love it! It pairs well with my kershaw camp 18. it came with a neat axe book which looks nice in my knife book collection. It was shaving sharp when I got it and it has such a great feel in hand. i’ve had it for two years so I was going to do my usual treatment of linseed oil and then use beeswax to fill any superficial cracks but the interesting thing is that i’ve never treated a handle that is as nice as this and the wood wasn’t ready to absorb any amount of oil and there wasn’t any superficial cracks at all so I hit it with 1000 grit sandpaper. It’s not a splitting axe it’s made for the specific purpose of cutting down trees and I chose that one because I live in a highly flammable area and most of the year it’s illegal to run a chainsaw and it’s really come in handy. I had made a collar for it just so it wouldn’t damage the handle but it still looks brand new.
I bought a BK-2 a few years back and the edge was pretty close to your chain-attacked axe. I only had a file and my field sharpener but I finally got it back to goodness.
This might have been a great chance to try out the KME axe sharpening jig. I have one and find it very easy and fast to use. Does a nice convex edge. A great compliment to the KME knife sharpening kit.
I think spending the money for a Gransfors Carpenters Axe is a safe way to insure you get a quality one. Hand forged axe heads take more time and skill to make and you do pay more for the branding. Plumb, True Temper and Estwing are ones I am familiar with. Most all make carpenter hammers and masonry hammers and other forged steel tools. Axes and carpenter tools are just as interesting to learn about and use as knives are. Being a gardener, you might want to check out a Japanese Hori Hori Garden Knife and Weeding Digging Tool. I can see you liking one. If you lived in place with more trees, you also would have reason for more interest in axes. Hammers and axes are less used because of chainsaws and nail guns. But; still are good tools to use and understand the reason for them. ✨🐰✨🙂
Honestly, I just use my Worksharp and it does a great job on everything and I can't imagine getting as much stuff done with anything else as I can with it.
For most it's more than good enough, assuming you mean the electric one. Myself, I want my knife edge to last longer since I'm often out and about for long periods of time so they get done by hand. Usually WS field guide in the field On an axe I don't care.
@@Kraakesolv I find the edges to be fine from the Ken Onion, they last long enough to me. I just touch up with a DC4. I use my knives pretty hard when I'm in the mountains so I like the micro convex's durability.
My current favourite method for sharpening larger blades like axes or kitchen knives is to hold the item in my offhand with the edge pointing upwards and the point away or towards me, then use a small stone between thumb and fingers in my main hand. This way I can see when I've got the edge/stone angle just right, and it's fairly easy to swap sides fairly safely compared to my previous methods. I highly recommend the Spyderco 400F1SP ceramic 'slip stone' for keeping a decent razor edge, just the right size.
If it is chipping a lot I'd grind a steeper angle on the one hand, or do some overlay welding with some tough material a TECHNOLIT TS 23 as ground/connection layer and then with HE630 as a hard coating on top and then do the grinding
As someone who’s gone down the rabbit hole of restoring/rehanging vintage axes i can confirm, your old video making fun of axe people is still funny. 👍🏼😆 And because I have a problem, have you ever re-handled your grandpas old axe you had in a video?
Axe fanboys and EDC pocket dump “check out my titanium chapstick” fanboys have the same energy. I had to repair some chips in my hatchet recently and just went right to a metal file. It worked great.
What’s this…common sense on the internet? Fark, that’ll never catch on, Pete! Seriously, great video, thanks. I spend too much on knives so I’m yet to go down the axe rabbit hole. Also, I love my chainsaw. It starts instantly, so anything larger than a pencil will always get the Stihl treatment rather than an axe or hatchet.
Nothing wrong with the worksharp of toy know what you're doing. I don't use it but it's great for people who have families and don't want to freehand all Their knives everyday
Was playing whit axe in forest when little tired fucked up.. Very very slow when I was making axe to rest top of big rock edge not really hit but touch the rock lightly but holy shit big chip fly out from the edge.. So fucking slow so fucking light movement but yeah my bad edge hit that.. That 1 chipped part really made big difference when using it.. Even when it looked big it was surprisingly easy to sharpen back.. My axe slices paper.. For fun.. Little use its fine if much use fuck that..
Axe Bros watching that sharpening angle screaming in ocd agony for the next few days, until they polish the bevel on their own to the cleanest glassy mirror this side of rigel 4.
“Just don’t cut your dick off” sums up this video nicely. It must be the Australian equivalent of “there’s more than one way to skin a cat” I presume. Lol
Hi Cedric I enjoy your very very good videos . BUT I must say my heart was in my mouth watching you put the axe blade up while straddling your wrist up and down sharpening with the diamond diamond stone . One slip and you could cut your arm very badly.we all make errors I know im a nobody and don't have much knowledge but I've cut myself mire times than I care to remember Cheers Dave trog
Terrible sharpening tutorial LOL ! Always great down to earth content. Personally I would have used the work sharp and then the extra time making it pretty. You are right though - the axe lads are pretty heavy going :)
Limbing a tree with a carpenter's axe is probably not the best choice. This axe is designed for rough carpentry. Think roughing out mortises and tenons, splitting blanks for a mill/lathe, hand dressing shakes, etc. It's purpose is closer to a plane or chisel than an axe. You often find carpenter's axes with single bevels for finer hand work. The edge chipped and rolled on you because it is too fine, and ground for a different purpose. I see you put an axe grind in it, but it will never be as good for tree work as an axe with a curved bit. Gransfors offers a fantastic forest axe. I would advise you limb your next tree with that one.
Seriously those axes... even big dents just file right out. Don't fret. edit: Holy shit I just started watching and you're using a knife sharpener. Mate... grab your metal file. #2 cut works best. The steel of an axe is only about 55rc. Files work fast and you can easily maintain the shape of the axe wedge. Once you file it past the dents you can sharpen as usual.
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Mate, I'm an axe guy, and I love your take on it! I remember your old axe vids, precious memories😁😁 dunno why people would watch an axe vid then cry when you cut down a tree, I think they're forgetting axes are tools and not ornaments. Keep it up Pete
Something that has come to my attention watching this channel over the years is, just how far hard work, common sense & decentcy will take you in this life. I feel like Pete is doing more for 20 to 30 year old guys, than just making internet videos. (At least l hope this is the case)
Deeeeeeseeeeennnntseeeeeeee
I've done the same thing with a machete and barbed wire. When I was firefighting we'd use files. Probably a little overkill in the metal removal department, but it works.
Didn't have to cut firewood solely to heat the house like my dad did, but we had a fireplace growing up and kept a fire burning almost every day in the winter. We always sharpened our axes and hatchets with a file. I imagine a "paper cutting" edge on an axe will fold pretty quickly when you start chopping, anyway.
@@DouglasRosser Thank you. I burn wood for heat.
A good file is 100% the way to go! With a little attention and a subtle touch I can get arm shaving edges off a file from a chipped and blunted machete in under 3 mins! It's such a nice and simple way to sharpening that for my larger edged tools like machetes and axes now I will not go for something too hard to be used with a file
G'day Pete, yeah any number of ways to sharpen or indeed re-profile an axe/hatchet. I generally just use a file, (or two), to get the basic convex without dings, then finish with diamonds or a puck, (which really only cleans up the file teeth marks), a few strops no probs. Cheers Duke.
I used to work in a sawmill, you'd be amazed at the amount of metallic junk you find embedded in trees. It's exciting when your head rig saw explodes on contact with a rail spike that the metal detector missed.
My favourite way for heavy impact tools, get a soft backed wet and dry sandpaper holder, with fitting 400 grit paper! Makes a perfect convex and is super easy!
“Just don’t cut your dick off.”
Words to live by! 😂
I hit a nail in the trunk of a small pine with one of my custom Bark River axes. It cut right through the nail but dinged the edge similarly. I left some of the deepest ones and they'll come out eventually. Every vintage head I have rehandled has dings.
Thanks for the video. I have used my Tormek T-4 to sharpen this same brand of axe, and was able to fix the blade in just a few minutes. Not only can it take out chips quickly, but putting the edge back on is really easy.
Another good common sense video! I have a pretty basic hatchet that I have sharpened with first a file and then I handheld the removable diamond plates from the Worksharp Field Sharpener. Easy, quick, and back to work!
I use DMT plates on my axes when there is a large damage spot, then i hone them using a spyderco double stuff. Piece of cake! It's really important to keep a razor sharp edge on your axes because it helps your stitches heal faster when you put one into your hand. Ask me how i know.
How do you know ?
a smart way to go without wearing away too much for no good reason. enjoyable as always!
Cool axe vid, those DMT stones are great I picked up the Extra Coarse and Extra Extra coarse ones as well as the standard ones that come with the kit for reprofiling and doing garden tools. They are great and lightweight enough that they are very portable too. I also picked up the credit card ones and they work great as well. At home I use venev stones for most everything but there are many quality portable sharpeners from Worksharp and DMT as well. Don't have to break the bank to get good sharp edges. Thanks for the great vid and keep making sharp things fun and enjoyable
A mill bastard file is more efficient in removing the chipped edge of an axe. Once you have removed the chips and reestablished the grind angle you can refine the edge with the diamond stones or an axe puck.
I have come full circle in sharpening my axes as well, and now I sharpen in the same functional manner…and I am a much happier person as a result!
The Worksharp would have sorted that in 2 mins, and we could have watched chickens for the rest of the time...
Hi Pete. These things happen when you use your sharp tools. Appreciate you showing your method of dealing with it as many are less experienced.
I have a nice GFB Swedish Carving Axe.They are excellent tools. I am glad you got this fixed.
The carpenter axes have thin bits and are a bit more susceptible to damage, but a chain will wreck even robust tools. A file will help to get rid of chips like that quickly, or even using something course like Brickys backside.
I love how your treat your bigger knife and axes as tools, it gave me the confidence to sharpen my falkniven f1. It doesn't matter how it looks if it's sharp
I am probably too picky with axe sharpening, but I will say that keeping the final angle of the edge to 50-55* inclusive with a less pronounced convex makes for a noticeably more enjoyable experience in use for me-especially with smaller hatchets. Like knives, too chunky and it’s less of a cutter and more of a hammer. Though I agree, if it’s sharp it’s good enough!
Pete, if you’re referring to your Axe Police video from a few years back, that video is still fucking hilarious lol
i have their foresters axe…. and I absolutely love it! It pairs well with my kershaw camp 18. it came with a neat axe book which looks nice in my knife book collection. It was shaving sharp when I got it and it has such a great feel in hand. i’ve had it for two years so I was going to do my usual treatment of linseed oil and then use beeswax to fill any superficial cracks but the interesting thing is that i’ve never treated a handle that is as nice as this and the wood wasn’t ready to absorb any amount of oil and there wasn’t any superficial cracks at all so I hit it with 1000 grit sandpaper. It’s not a splitting axe it’s made for the specific purpose of cutting down trees and I chose that one because I live in a highly flammable area and most of the year it’s illegal to run a chainsaw and it’s really come in handy. I had made a collar for it just so it wouldn’t damage the handle but it still looks brand new.
Good job Pete. I love the DMT Diafold.
I bought a BK-2 a few years back and the edge was pretty close to your chain-attacked axe. I only had a file and my field sharpener but I finally got it back to goodness.
Best video tutorial ever. Real world.
Enjoyed the internet axe memories! So ends my contribution to the algorithm food on this excellent video!
I love your videos. You do what you like and you stay true to who you are. I love your garden, too. Cheers.
This might have been a great chance to try out the KME axe sharpening jig. I have one and find it very easy and fast to use. Does a nice convex edge. A great compliment to the KME knife sharpening kit.
The DMT black/blue diafolds are good for taking care of chips and dings.
I think spending the money for a Gransfors Carpenters Axe is a safe way to insure you get a quality one. Hand forged axe heads take more time and skill to make and you do pay more for the branding. Plumb, True Temper and Estwing are ones I am familiar with. Most all make carpenter hammers and masonry hammers and other forged steel tools. Axes and carpenter tools are just as interesting to learn about and use as knives are. Being a gardener, you might want to check out a Japanese Hori Hori Garden Knife and Weeding Digging Tool. I can see you liking one. If you lived in place with more trees, you also would have reason for more interest in axes. Hammers and axes are less used because of chainsaws and nail guns. But; still are good tools to use and understand the reason for them. ✨🐰✨🙂
Bricky says "Excessive justification shows weakness".
Honestly, I just use my Worksharp and it does a great job on everything and I can't imagine getting as much stuff done with anything else as I can with it.
For most it's more than good enough, assuming you mean the electric one. Myself, I want my knife edge to last longer since I'm often out and about for long periods of time so they get done by hand. Usually WS field guide in the field
On an axe I don't care.
@@Kraakesolv I find the edges to be fine from the Ken Onion, they last long enough to me. I just touch up with a DC4. I use my knives pretty hard when I'm in the mountains so I like the micro convex's durability.
When it come to axe sharpening
I say puck it
So easy to use
There again the DMT double sided paddle works very well
My current favourite method for sharpening larger blades like axes or kitchen knives is to hold the item in my offhand with the edge pointing upwards and the point away or towards me, then use a small stone between thumb and fingers in my main hand. This way I can see when I've got the edge/stone angle just right, and it's fairly easy to swap sides fairly safely compared to my previous methods. I highly recommend the Spyderco 400F1SP ceramic 'slip stone' for keeping a decent razor edge, just the right size.
Great video, still probably my favorite knife youtuber
The Axe video parody is still hysterical. I watched wrangle star, then old bushcraft dudes, then watched again. It was funnier the second time around.
Why do I think Uncle Randy would have just grabed up Bricky and had that axe hair shaving sharp faster than you could say Bob's your uncle.
If it is chipping a lot I'd grind a steeper angle on the one hand, or do some overlay welding with some tough material a TECHNOLIT TS 23 as ground/connection layer and then with HE630 as a hard coating on top and then do the grinding
Great vid as always Pete. A simple functional edge for a functional tool.👌👍
I watched this video anyway. Even though I don’t have an axe to grind.
I wish I had seen this yesterday before that naked gardening I did.
As someone who’s gone down the rabbit hole of restoring/rehanging vintage axes i can confirm, your old video making fun of axe people is still funny. 👍🏼😆
And because I have a problem, have you ever re-handled your grandpas old axe you had in a video?
The music is just awesome even if it don't match the video at all)))
Thanks man!
Axe fanboys and EDC pocket dump “check out my titanium chapstick” fanboys have the same energy.
I had to repair some chips in my hatchet recently and just went right to a metal file. It worked great.
Titanium Chapstick may be the best thing I've read all week. 😁👍
On jobsites we use a handheld 3"X21" belt sander with a worn 150 grit or so. Same with our our 1" rough out carpentry chisels.
This is true for literally all tool fan boys of all kinds. Kind of d funny you tried to shade though.
I have 2 axes a carpenters axe and a Tuatahi Racing Axe. Just the best.
What’s this…common sense on the internet? Fark, that’ll never catch on, Pete! Seriously, great video, thanks. I spend too much on knives so I’m yet to go down the axe rabbit hole. Also, I love my chainsaw. It starts instantly, so anything larger than a pencil will always get the Stihl treatment rather than an axe or hatchet.
I did that with my PM2 the other day through a box. Hidden staple 🤬 and of course I was in a hurry and pushing hard lol
I'm lazy, I use a coarse Bahco file to fix my tool edges.
@Cedric & Ada Gear and Outdoors What would be ypur approach to best sharpening of a hewing hatchet or axe?
Great vid, Pete!
back to boomerang carving sharp!
That was MY look of concern and doubt...
What make are those gloves, Pete?
Nice video bud! I enjoy your content dude.
The horror😅 Gaaahhhh… Despicable chain! Great video👍👍
Awesomeness
Nothing wrong with the worksharp of toy know what you're doing. I don't use it but it's great for people who have families and don't want to freehand all Their knives everyday
Was playing whit axe in forest when little tired fucked up.. Very very slow when I was making axe to rest top of big rock edge not really hit but touch the rock lightly but holy shit big chip fly out from the edge.. So fucking slow so fucking light movement but yeah my bad edge hit that.. That 1 chipped part really made big difference when using it.. Even when it looked big it was surprisingly easy to sharpen back.. My axe slices paper.. For fun.. Little use its fine if much use fuck that..
Use a file for this... Not expensive diamond stones. Love your channel btw..
GB makes a proper axe sharpening file, and for what they're charging they can keep it.
Bloody flat grind axes 🪓
Jereeeeen martah
Axe Bros watching that sharpening angle screaming in ocd agony for the next few days, until they polish the bevel on their own to the cleanest glassy mirror this side of rigel 4.
Doing it wrong.
That's not even bad lol. 10 minutes with a file
“Just don’t cut your dick off” sums up this video nicely. It must be the Australian equivalent of “there’s more than one way to skin a cat” I presume. Lol
Hi Cedric I enjoy your very very good videos . BUT I must say my heart was in my mouth watching you put the axe blade up while straddling your wrist up and down sharpening with the diamond diamond stone . One slip and you could cut your arm very badly.we all make errors I know im a nobody and don't have much knowledge but I've cut myself mire times than I care to remember
Cheers
Dave trog
A sign you live in Austrlaia...
Old metal shit just "amongst..... The tree".
😂
It will keeeel? 🤣
Axe people 🤣
i suspect a carpenters axe is for carpentry not forestry or it would be called a foresters axe. LOL
No try.
Only do.
The way you are sharpening at 7:06 is ridiculously dangerous. One slip and your hand or wrist can slip onto the edge
Terrible sharpening tutorial LOL ! Always great down to earth content. Personally I would have used the work sharp and then the extra time making it pretty. You are right though - the axe lads are pretty heavy going :)
You're doing it wrong.
Limbing a tree with a carpenter's axe is probably not the best choice. This axe is designed for rough carpentry. Think roughing out mortises and tenons, splitting blanks for a mill/lathe, hand dressing shakes, etc. It's purpose is closer to a plane or chisel than an axe. You often find carpenter's axes with single bevels for finer hand work.
The edge chipped and rolled on you because it is too fine, and ground for a different purpose. I see you put an axe grind in it, but it will never be as good for tree work as an axe with a curved bit. Gransfors offers a fantastic forest axe. I would advise you limb your next tree with that one.
Man nobody appreciates the "v" grind anymore
Seriously those axes... even big dents just file right out. Don't fret.
edit: Holy shit I just started watching and you're using a knife sharpener.
Mate... grab your metal file. #2 cut works best.
The steel of an axe is only about 55rc.
Files work fast and you can easily maintain the shape of the axe wedge.
Once you file it past the dents you can sharpen as usual.
Stop, Stop! What the hell are ye doin'? Have they seen ya? HAVE THEY SEEN YA?
Great reference. 😉
Psshhhhh, this man doesn't even sharpen his axe with a 64k grit Naguraïtofuzu. Unsubscribed.
That's not an Axe, it's a hatchet. Just sayin.
Sounds like a BS story.