For the crooked knives, palm up, fist grip, thumb up the side and cut towards yourself with a pull stroke.
Based on experience, you really need to wear a bib-front chest protector.
If and when you get hit in the chest by a crooked knife, it does more than just cut your shirt.
I have an apron of flight bag canvas, no knife of mine has ever got thorugh it so far.
In part, that explains why I like the single edges on the farrier's knives = you can change hands, turn them over and push on the spine of the blade.
For the adzes, the first thing to do is to figure out where the blade goes if you miss a strike.
Your bones are all you have to stop them.
Lots of times, I work "beside myself" so a miss never hits me.
Or, I work over a wood stump as a blade stop for trimming work.
Listen to your heart. Don't cut faster than your heart rate.
Seems slow but you can go all day. Flail away and you won't last 20 minutes.
No carving axe. Can't imagine ever needing one. I know about them but no idea how or why they are used.
I use a 48 oz froe and a 48 oz log mallet to split what I need from bigger log pieces.
Those tools give me 1/16" accuracy, if it matters. Cedar salmon BBQ planks, those sorts of things.
Then I use those odd planer knives to smooth off all the splinters.
I have some hatchets ands axes that I use for field work ( salvaging wood from logging debris piles.)
But I use them in the shop for splitting wedges!
Based on experience, you really need to wear a bib-front chest protector.
If and when you get hit in the chest by a crooked knife, it does more than just cut your shirt.
I have an apron of flight bag canvas, no knife of mine has ever got thorugh it so far.
In part, that explains why I like the single edges on the farrier's knives = you can change hands, turn them over and push on the spine of the blade.
For the adzes, the first thing to do is to figure out where the blade goes if you miss a strike.
Your bones are all you have to stop them.
Lots of times, I work "beside myself" so a miss never hits me.
Or, I work over a wood stump as a blade stop for trimming work.
Listen to your heart. Don't cut faster than your heart rate.
Seems slow but you can go all day. Flail away and you won't last 20 minutes.
No carving axe. Can't imagine ever needing one. I know about them but no idea how or why they are used.
I use a 48 oz froe and a 48 oz log mallet to split what I need from bigger log pieces.
Those tools give me 1/16" accuracy, if it matters. Cedar salmon BBQ planks, those sorts of things.
Then I use those odd planer knives to smooth off all the splinters.
I have some hatchets ands axes that I use for field work ( salvaging wood from logging debris piles.)
But I use them in the shop for splitting wedges!
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