>>35846>Explain to me how a wooden handle absorbs shock better than a hollowed Fiskars handle.Simple. Hollow handle transmits vibrations, kind of like a how slamming a pipe on a hard object rattles your bones, though obviously on a lesser scale.
With a wood handle, vibrations get dissipated before they reach your arms.
>Explain why you even fucking brought up something as stupid as shape when we both know that this is something that both wood and plastic can address. The Gerber/Fiskars are all straight handled.
What do you mean by "ground better"?
Fiskars are flat ground with an obtuse flat edge.
Good axes are slightly hollow, to convex.
The grind on the fiskars is too thick from the factory and the obtuse bevel of the edge cause is it to jump out of cuts.
An axe should be ground on a way that there are no sharp transitions between edge and grind, and the grind itself should be thin enough to bite deep.
>Do you have any facts to back that up?If you can't understand the above, then you don't have enough experience to speak on the subject.
If you don't know what makes a good axe, how can you say wood handled ones aren't better?
You are clearly already biased, but have no way to back up your position.
The bottom line is if the average joe buys a walmart chisel and an expensive one he wouldn't know the difference.
But an experienced woodworker can. You are that average joe.
Here's a Fiskars grind. See how flat and wedge shaped the head is, and how thick the edge is?
