>>1408104Forest axe suffers from the same lack of shock absorbtion, carve for a couple of hours with and and tell me how your hands feel.
I have used it on beech, fir, sycamore and birch so i have a pretty good idea on how the geometry performs on a range of harder and softer woods. grind is too thick. I have axes that are better at splitting and cutting due to the geometry i described, look up basque axe
You can easily verify an axemans experience by his accuracy and the size of his chips. Ive yet to meet any guy who doesnt go off like a shotgun when some stranger accuses him of bieng a small handed hipster
