I bought a Vaughn carpenter's axe 22oz and cut the hammer off the back, cut the nail puller out so I could get my hand behind the edge and sharpened it. It works just fine. They go for around $40 right now but I paid around $20 for mine. Don't know how to upload a photo of it here.

This same hatchet in my country (Brazil) costs more than 10% of a worker's salary, in your country you have access to much better products for much less

The biggest thing keeping me from going all in on carving besides time is cost. If I could keep the price below $100 that would be something to look into. Thank you for sharing this ✌

I use a $30.00 fiskers axe. It works quite well as-is, for a dirt cheap axe actually. Very sharp and decent enough bevel. Much larger bevel than that Stihl. When I become more skilled at spoon carving I will consider a better axe.

I got a very similar 600g Prandi German style hatchet and the edge was about the same. I don’t understand why they put those dull micro bevels on them! Even for just random chopping, the edge is terrible. I did it the hard way with a file and hones though. You have the right idea 😊

This is what I have done when I started carving spoons a few years back, I put a new edge on a store-bought axe, but I did it by hand with a file, took me a couple of days to get it to right and shaving sharp 😅 but it is an axe I use to this day 😊 great video 👍🏻

Great video Andy.

That thing wouldn't cut hot butter in the month of June...

Chuck it in the scrap metal bin...

thanks for a really nice and interesting video. You are a skilled communicator 😉

thank you for the good review

Thank you, Mr. Spoons;

Hi Andy,

Great video, I've always been curious how these axes would go for carving. Super cool t-shirt too, where did you get it from?

Interesting video. I like the contraption you use for getting the right angle on the blade. Where you got that?

Really nice demo! I'd enjoy seeing how you would improve on the edge of a fiskars hatchet (as you've recommended), they start out decent out of the box but I'm sure could be better

You would be fun to work with.