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Why is everything blunt?

  • 31-08-2013 1:46pm
    #1
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭


    Axes, hatchets, mauls etc. All extremely blunt in hardware shops and unusable and downright dangerous until they are sharpened. I bought a scythe recently and it wouldn't cut butter, blunt as a butter knife. What is with selling tools that are supposed to be sharp but are really blunt. Is it in case little johnny cuts a finger?

    Just as a contrast - I bought a Wetterlings hatchet online and it was razor sharp when it arrived.


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  • #2
    stoneill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    I bought a axe recently and spent the bones of 2 days getting it sharpened - old school, oil stone and patience.


  • #3
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Jimmy Garlic wrote: »
    What is with selling tools that are supposed to be sharp but are really blunt.

    Price. A lot cheaper to sell a tool machined rather than hand-finished.


  • #4
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    MadsL wrote: »
    Price. A lot cheaper to sell a tool machined rather than hand-finished.

    I am sure there is a mechanical process that will put a good edge on tools in the factory.


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