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For splitting wood, this tool is much better than a typical axe. The weight of it is more advantageous, and it is less likely to become stuck in the wood thanks to its width. The wedge section of a maul head must be slightly convex to avoid jamming and it cannot have the elongated "hollow ground" concave-section that a cutting axe may use.
The panabas is a chopping bladed weapon or tool from the Philippines, variously described as both a sword and a battle axe. [1] [2] [3] It has a distinctive long straight haft and a curving blade of various designs. It can range in size from 2 to 4 feet (61 to 122 cm) and can be held with one or both hands, delivering a deep, meat cleaver-like cut.
A double-beveled broad axe can be used for chopping or notching as well as hewing. When used for hewing, notches are chopped in the side of the log down to a marked line, a process called scoring. The pieces of wood between these notches are removed with an axe, a process called joggling, [ 3 ] and then the remaining wood is hewn to the line.
The handle of the axe also acts as a lever allowing the user to increase the force at the cutting edge—not using the full length of the handle is known as choking the axe. For fine chopping using a side axe this sometimes is a positive effect, but for felling with a double bitted axe it reduces efficiency.
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These axes also have straight handles, as the curved handles typical of felling and chopping axes would get in the way of the smaller, more precise cuts that carpenters would tend to make. These features allow carpenter's axes to be capable of detailed work such as cutting a plank's end to a desired angled with a planed surface and even ...
The edge itself does not need to be sharp: cleaving relies more on wedge action than chopping (cutting) with an edge. The section of the axe should be triangular though, with flat sides, rather than the deeply hollow-sided forged and welded axes, or the modern convex-sided "apple pip" axe grind. [4] Nor should the edge be ground at a bevel.
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