Hi thanks for this. It's lovely to see the job being done right, but also being shown to more and more people worldwide. Can you please help me though: I have just got a new scythe from a local supplier. It's very like your style ones. It does not have an edge i.e. when you look at the blade head-on (the way the grass sees it!) you can see like a 2mm flat surface, no edge. The supplier told me to grind it down and rather foolishly I also bought the scythe stone he recommended which is a big coarse thing. After watching all of these videos I don't think I should just 'grind' an edge. Should I peen an edge first, then whet it? Thanks to anyone in advance for Ur advice :)
You could peen it and work harden the steel. This being the best option for both mild steel and high carbon blades. It was most likely hardened and tempered though and at least the edge is high carbon steel. If you do angle grind the edge be careful not to over heat the edge. Otherwise you will ruin the temper on it. So the steel edge should not get to hot to hold. You can also see the temper colors run where you grind. If it turns brown then that is still OK. Purple you can get away with but blue is bad. Trying to peen 2 mil is a bit much so I would grind the backside down to 1 mil and peen from there. Do a spark test on the edge to see if it is mild steel or if the edge has hardenable carbon steel. You can look up spark test charts to see the difference between steels with more carbon in it. Remember those sparklers at new years. The more carbon in the blade the more it sparks like those sparklers when you look at the spark stream coming of the angle grinder. Hope that helped.
Plus forgot to mention that if you see many sparklers it is high carbon steel and then you will have to be careful with the grinder. If it is mild steel you will not have to worry about over heating. Peening is advantageous for both blade types but even more so with mild steel.
After thinking on it for a wile. Do grind it down to half a mil. Otherwise you will have to much material when you peen and it is liable to split on you.
Glad this speaker is left handed. I will place this in a Scythe list. I'm left handed and appreciate seeing this done from a left handed perspective. 👍
I was going to say a dyeing art form here but it might be more accurate to say a dead art form. I haven't seen any one scythe in many years. He made it look so easy.
Hi thanks for this. It's lovely to see the job being done right, but also being shown to more and more people worldwide.
Can you please help me though: I have just got a new scythe from a local supplier. It's very like your style ones. It does not have an edge i.e. when you look at the blade head-on (the way the grass sees it!) you can see like a 2mm flat surface, no edge.
The supplier told me to grind it down and rather foolishly I also bought the scythe stone he recommended which is a big coarse thing.
After watching all of these videos I don't think I should just 'grind' an edge.
Should I peen an edge first, then whet it?
Thanks to anyone in advance for Ur advice :)
You could peen it and work harden the steel. This being the best option for both mild steel and high carbon blades. It was most likely hardened and tempered though and at least the edge is high carbon steel. If you do angle grind the edge be careful not to over heat the edge. Otherwise you will ruin the temper on it. So the steel edge should not get to hot to hold. You can also see the temper colors run where you grind. If it turns brown then that is still OK. Purple you can get away with but blue is bad. Trying to peen 2 mil is a bit much so I would grind the backside down to 1 mil and peen from there. Do a spark test on the edge to see if it is mild steel or if the edge has hardenable carbon steel. You can look up spark test charts to see the difference between steels with more carbon in it. Remember those sparklers at new years. The more carbon in the blade the more it sparks like those sparklers when you look at the spark stream coming of the angle grinder. Hope that helped.
Plus forgot to mention that if you see many sparklers it is high carbon steel and then you will have to be careful with the grinder. If it is mild steel you will not have to worry about over heating. Peening is advantageous for both blade types but even more so with mild steel.
After thinking on it for a wile. Do grind it down to half a mil. Otherwise you will have to much material when you peen and it is liable to split on you.
Glad this speaker is left handed. I will place this in a Scythe list. I'm left handed and appreciate seeing this done from a left handed perspective. 👍
Exactly! When tutorials are made usually there is no thinking about us left handed users :D
Good to see an expert at work.
extremely well done
great to see you with a scythe.
I was going to say a dyeing art form here but it might be more accurate to say a dead art form. I haven't seen any one scythe in many years. He made it look so easy.
From what I have seen , sharpening ANY tool is a dying art form , most people don't have a clue
Good to teach another person's.. Keep it up... Nice
Great now I want a scythe.
Good video scything is an efficient and eco friendly way of clearing long vegetation but not as easy as it seems.
That it is and for sure he makes it look easy :)
What's eco friendly about cutting vegetation?
welp thats not how i do things but this is good enough to start.