>>2302524In any case axes do get minor chips from grit in the bark and become damaged in ways that you can spend a long time trying to stone out when a few passes of a file can have the same result. Unless you are talking about racing axes then there is no reason to go crazy with the steels and hardness. My racing axe can all still be filed albeit with harder effort than a council tool. still softer than the gransfors and hults premium that passed through my hands
