[TheForge] Re: Cut-off hardies

[Mike Spencer]

> Do you suggest single or double bevel, and why?

Single bevel almost always.  That allows me to have either an almost
perfectly square cut or a somewhat beveled one on the workpiece.
Sometime the  offcut is the workpiece, sometimes it's the scrap and
sometimes it doesn't matter whether the cut end is squarely cut or
not.  The single bevel gives me more options

> Whichever you suggest what angle is your preference for the cut- off
> edge?

Quite thin.  I have three hardies, one double bevel and rather wide
angle, one thin and one very thin.  Haven't used the first one for
years.  I should replace the very thin one with a better alloy because
I have to dress it with a file (or even the grinder) quite often.  But
it makes fast, very clean cuts.

> Does this change if you're making a half round?

You'd have to have two, one each way, just like wood carver's gouges,
to get the same versatility.  I imagine that's what I'd do.  I don't
have a half-round hardy, only a curved set tool chisel and it's
beveled on the inside of the curve.

Another point of interest: The edge of my very thin hardy is angled
at 45 degreed to the hardy hole.  I like it that way because I don't
have to step all the way around to the heel of the anvil to do that
last shearing blow of a cutoff.

- Mike

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