Peening and Sharpening a SICKLE or SCYTHE Blade
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 พ.ค. 2022
- WHAT IS PEENING?... In this video, you will learn how to Sharpen and Peen a Sickle or Scythe...
A European, tensioned scythe or sickle blade is sharpened by first hammering the cutting edge thin on a scythe anvil and then honing the edge with a whetstone. If you could see a cross-section of the minuscule cutting edge of a sharp scythe blade, you would see that it forms a very sharp, slightly curved, chisel-shaped point. As you mow with it, that sharp point gradually gets rounded off. You restore the sharpness of the point every 5 minutes, or so, in the field, by honing the rounded-off edge with a wet whetstone. Eventually though, after a certain number of hours of mowing, the point of the edge gets worn back to where the metal is so thick, that the whetstone can no longer effectively reform the sharp, penetrating angle of that original cutting edge. It can only hone at a steeper or blunter angle. At this time, the edge must be thinned back out with a hammer and anvil, until it is tapered out and thin enough for the whetstone to be effective again. The process of hammering the metal edge thin is called peening.
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Entertaining and very helpful instruction! I’ll use this process to sharpen my my Grandfather’s rusty old sickle that I just found in the garage!
Glad it was of help xxx
4:28 Came to learn peening.. Stayed for the life lessons :)
Many thanks from Australia
Hiya, thanks for the kind words xxx
Thankyou! I got a hand sickle on the clearance section of this mix of an antique and thrift store! I know how to care for it now :D
Wonderful!
Morning Marcus,
Ca va toi ?
I was taught how to do this when I first moved here, by my 80 year old neighbor who was cutting his verge with a scythe.
He could cut his side just as fast as I could with a strimmer
But his was a much neater finish.
But,,,, he only used the ball pein of the hammer and a special anvil on a spike.
Hiya, I've been shown all sorts of ways but now just use the way as in the video... I have cut the grass with one on my fields and wasn't as bad to do as I thought
My old woodwork teacher told us we need to use a piece of leather to tale a tiny slip ice of metal off after sharpening. You don’t need to do this with a scythe then?
This made me wonder if Death sharpens his own scythe or does he have someone else do it for him.
That is a strange but curious quandry
In Terry Pratchett's Discworld Death has a manservant called Albert. I think he takes care of the details of the household.
Do you have to go hit hard while peening the sickle
No, just a steady impact
In the old days it was the favorite weapon of defense of the humble peasant, surprisingly effective on the end of a pole to take down pesty armored knights...
My ancestor Robert Kett found it useful along with pitch forks to take Norwich
@@WallyboisWoodworking I remember you talking about your "rebel" ancestor... I have some of "those" people in my bloodlines also, must be the root cause of my own position in some affairs...
The Humble Sickle or Sythe an instrument so ancient that the name of it is transferable to all other languages in the celtic / germanic regions.
A tool that made farming weats / grasses /peat /straw so much more efficient and faster.
An unsung Hero that needs more recognition. As for Just look at the amount of thought that goes in to the Sickle and Scythe . Its been around for thousends of years . It could be ranked with the discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel.
Its the tool that made mass food production posible .
That is a lovely way to look at it... These old tools and skills are still used but combustion engines have spoiled things a bit
@@WallyboisWoodworking Its a wonderfull piece of technology .