>>2174039>Am I really missing out with not owning a scissor-ground?If you work with wood, you absolutely are. Hewing logs with a symmetrical grind is impossible. You can use a saw and adze, but that's much more work, and sawing a smooth, even surface across a whole log is impossible with any packable saw I'm aware of.
For carving, a regular hatchet and knife also work, but a scissorgrind is much more precise.
A scissorground, bearded hatchet can also replace a drawknife (by holding onto beard and point) and a plane (by pressing down on the eye and holding the handle with the other hand).
>The Scissorground is twice the price as the other three axes I listedThe Gransfors Broad Axe and the two carving hatchets (which I guess you're talking about) are crap though. As with all other gransfors I'm aware of, they clearly don't understand how to use their tools. For their broad "axe", they basically took a hewing axe and reduced the size, and for their carving hatchets, they just took a splitting hatchet and put a scissorgrind on them.
A good scissorground hatchet for general use has:
>a narrow beard and point you can comfortably grip on>an almost straight edge, so getting the angle slighty wrong on a strike won't leave much of a dent>a short handle curved towards the ground side, so you don't hit your hand on the workpiece. You can do without this if you're not working on wide pieces.Here's a picture of how it should look (That hatchet has beard and point on the wider side, but still usable):
https://www.ricardo.ch/de/a/antikes-zimmermann-beil-axt-1125690778/Sadly, there's almost no manufacturers making them nowadays, and of those that do, most are larp-brands like gransfors. So if you want one, look at flea markets and garage sales. There, you can usually get them for cheap, as most people assume that the bent handle is a defect and needs to be replaced.
