can someone explain to me if I got the point of bevels (in e.g. axes) right?pic.twitter.com/5VlMAymMfH
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finally, force required on the knife or axe or whatever scales with the width of the blade - the amount of displacement. So thin is good. ...but a thin tippy-tippy edge will fold over or crumble or crack more easily. So a bevel gives you a thin blade but a stronger tip
and finally, this can be iterated YOUR BEVEL CAN HAVE A BEVEL (this is called a secondary bevel)
I’ve seen an explanation of a double-bit axe being sharpened this way on one side, the other way on the other
yes, some folks sharpen axes asymetrically so that the axe tilts during impact, thus creating a levering motion which can help to pop out the chip but now we're into a discussion of different types of felling/ crosscut axes, vs limbing axes vs mauls ...
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