Any woodworkers have any preferences on wood adzes? Any qualities to look for past materials and edge geometry? When is the point of diminishing returns in price?

>>2603987 (OP)

>adze

It's spelled "axe" or "ax"

it's adze numbnuts

Look at the picture and tell me those are axes

> let me axe u a qestion, do those look like?

Thoes are hoes.

Your mother's a hoe

Those words are spelled that way, yes, but those aren't the correct words.

>clueless tard going "the more you know" on others

look at pic related

see that tall peak on the left?

yeah that's you on top

Yo mamma ain't in da pitcher, homesack.

I see a twink wearing gay shoes with shiny toes, and I suppose he has an adze if that's what you say it is. I'm not Amish so I wouldn't know.

>don't be an adzehole

That has got to be one of the dumbest graphs ever posted on this site, and that says a lot. You have no idea what the Dunning Kruger effect is.

I think it’s supposed to be a spoof of the Gartner “hype cycle” graph for products the review/rate

Then why are you on a /diy/ board when you're unable to identify such basic tools? Go be a pedo somewhere else.

Well go on, we're all listening

>>2603987 (OP)

Blog post incoming. Like a lot of other carving/hand tools for woodworking, this probably is in the buy-once cry-once category. I have a Hans Karlsson 50mm adze and it's been great. The sweep is wonderful, the edge retention is great, and there are a lot of guides on how to sharpen them. I use David Fisher's guide and it's worked great. 

I initially bought some $80 or something adze from woodcraft years ago and regretted it...was just incredibly frustrating. Ended up just being a waste of money. Unfortunately there are some "middle ground" adzes but I'm not sure how great they are...they seem to come up from hobby-forges but you never really can get a good review of them, or every tool they make is different and not in a good way. 

You can always check e-bay and see if any Jason Lonon, Hans Karlsson or Gransfors Bruk adzes come up. I've heard wonderful things about all of those. Hope this helps.

I realize I should say why the cheaper one was frustrating: the sweep and geometry of the head was not great, especially when making a shallow bowl. the HK adze allows me to do more work with the adze before having to switch to gouges, saving time. Also the truly curved head on the HK, and I think on Svante Djarv (who HK taught, I believe) adzes is really nice for carving bowls. You really don't want an adze that has any flat space on the edge unless you're making a big dough bowl or a canoe or something.
