Using, modifying, testing cheaper axes to find out what you want to be using and how to use it, makes more sense than relying on KZitem videos Forums and Axe manufacturers to tell you. Once you test that stuff out, you may find that you don't need to spend a lot of money on an axe.
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Expensive axes like Wetterlings and Gransfors Bruks are probably not the best thing for beginners to learn on. I've owned one Gransfors, but I sold it, because it was very crooked and I wanted the money for other projects. I'm not convinced they are worth the cost or that the fact that they are shaped on presses, or "struck several times" is of any tangible benefit to real life users. I'm not saying that it's not, just that I'm not convinced. The world is full of inexpensive axes that are high quality and perfectly serviceable with less than an hour of filing and a new handle. Even a budget line new axe might be perfectly serviceable, though handle quality, alignment and quality consistency may very well be an issue, especially if they are ordered sight unseen.
Common arguments might be that they are stronger and hold an edge longer, which I don't think are important enough for novices, if they are true at all, especially if you look at using a vintage head. Hand forged axes don't possess any giant advantage that will translate into more work done per amount of effort expended. If you imagine they will, you will be disappointed.
Perhaps the most important point, which I may have skimmed over too much in this video, is that beginners don't know what they should want or prefer for themselves, and an axe company, no matter how old, is not likely the best to tell them that. The process of testing, modifying, weighing and feeling out what axe length, weight and design you might want is better carried out on cheap axes. You can go on forums, but there is no guarantee that the people there have the experience to validate their opinions. modifying and learning on expensive axes that will be devalued by damage and modification and expensive to re-handle with the manufacturers handle, makes little sense and most of the advantages are probably imagined. People are afraid to modify them because they are expensive and it is imagined that such a fine axe would be good to go out of the box.
Ask yourself hard why you really want one before pulling the trigger. Homesteading and self reliance are not about working and saving money to buy the best fanciest tools that you plan to use one day. It's about working with what is available to you and being creative, resourceful, intelligent, thrifty and spending your time building skills and making due over making money, endlessly researching and buying stuff. Skills like restoring, handling, modifying and above all, using axes is what will serve you well, not that intriguing axe surrounded by mystery that you might think will do more work for you than the rusty head that you picked up at the flea market. If you want skills, you have to put skills before gear. If not, then, then I have no relevant argument against your axe fetish. Peace out.
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