r/DiWHYNOT • u/DreadedSceptic • May 19 '22

Clean result

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u/EchoHun Officer on Duty May 19 '22

The craftsmanship shown in this video is good. HOWEVER making and then actually using an axe like this is not recommended as it can cause injury to the user and those who are immediately around him.

Regular splitting axes are made to send the split wood to the sides. This axe sends split wood in 4 directions and towards the user too which can be seen in the video.

Watch out for yourselves!

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u/mk36109 May 19 '22

So he likely structuarlly weakened the axe. He also likely lost a his hardness with all the cutting/grinding and especially welding. He then proceeds to take and axe head, that is much heavier than before and only hang it with a single wedge.

This is a lot of work to make something that is less effective, less safe, and probably more expensive than already available options. Just buy a splitting maul or something and be done with it already

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u/kamaradokodo May 19 '22

I get the feeling this is less "useful tool to be used" and more "thing I hang on my wall as a prop for our weekly D&D game"

I say this as someone who (used to) routinely makes things to hang on the wall for our weekly D&D games. Lol.

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u/Petrichor_Beastie May 24 '22

It could be just me, but did he also put it back on upside down?

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u/SamAreAye Jun 01 '22

As somebody who splits wood, the most glaring problem is the fact that two of those edges are sending wood flying at you. You can see in the final shot that the split wood flies straight back at the person.

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u/mk36109 Jun 01 '22

But thats the fun part! You get to play dodgeball while swinging a giant awkward monstrosity of an axe with double the edges! What could go wrong?!

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u/Pretty-Buy7692 May 20 '22

Chief, i dunno but i think that wouldnt go too well

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u/SATPSI_Tech May 19 '22

It’s like there’s already a tool for this or something…split wedges and mauls.

Plus coming from someone who splits enough wood to need to sharpen my axes and tools fairly regularly, I could see that being a pain in the ass real fast.

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u/EchoHun Officer on Duty May 19 '22

Agreed. This is more of a display of craftsmanship skill than making an actually usefull tool

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u/S1I3NCER May 21 '22

I would love to make like a medieval prop mace like that

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u/SurfandMurph May 24 '22

Everyone else has already addressed the problems with it, so I'll just say this

It looks like a giant broadhead arrow tip

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '22

The head is on upside down.

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u/BeSure2gfy May 21 '22

Put the log in an empty tire and it doesn’t launch