>>503081Companies like Fiskars are only interested in maximum profits. Shit steel is cheap and that's why they use it. People who buy these products think steel is steel and that's it.
Fiskars users never sharpen their axes. Once the blade gets too damaged to be used for anything, the axe is thrown in the garbage and they go and buy a new one. When was the last time you saw a Fiskars axe that had been resharpened? Then again, why would you sharpen an axe that can't hold an edge anyway?
It wouldn't be too expensive to temper the blades and design a thinner blade that could be sharpened with hand tools, but that would be bad business. Do you think they accidentally ended up producing axes that get dull fast and are difficult/impossible to sharpen.
Fiskars axes in the picture are X7 on the left and older Fiskars hatchet on the right. Photos were found from
bladeforums.com, hope they don't mind.
>how do you even sharpen these things? 