Hydraulic splitter wedge sharpness?

How sharpe should the wedge on a splitter be?
I keep mine at a good edge but not sharpe like an ax or hatchet.

Reasoning is , when I come to limbs in the wood, I want to cut them more than push them into the wood deforming the splits

IMO
A sharp wedge will help a lot with stringy wood. It’ll cut instead of push

All bets are off when splitting “gum”

Just sharpened the hatchet(near knife sharp)
Touched up the splitter wedge
Used a flat bastard

 

Pouring rain here , 42°
Tinkering in the shop
Aired up the tires, checked the oil
Sharpened the pickaroon too

 

I sharpen my splitter wedge once in a while with a file

 

I hit my wedge in the spring and fall

 

Splitter hasn't seen much use lately, but I put a decent edge on the wedge a couple years ago. I like it.

 

Is that a Fiskars hatchet? How do you sharpen it?

I use a file to take out the burs, then the Fiskars sharpening tool, but it takes forever to get a sharp edge.

 

Yes, Fiskars
I used a bastard file
Worked fine
Not shaving sharp, but would slice a tomato & cut wood

 

Bastard file? I'm not fimilare with that? Details please.

 

It’s a file whose mother and father aren’t married.


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Lol.

I've never heard of one either.

Now, I split a lot of elm, and it's stringy. I never bother with sharpening the splitter wedge. It seems to work just fine. IDK, maybe I should try the dull wedge first in some elm, then sharpen it and try it on the same elm and make a decision?

 

And we're back to my apprenticeship.

"The cut of the file refers to how fine its teeth are. They are defined as (from roughest to smoothest): rough, middle, bastard, second cut, smooth, and dead smooth. A single-cut file has one set of parallel teeth while a cross-cut or double-cut file has a second set of cuts forming diamond shaped cutting surfaces"

 

I had some stringy birch that the wedge cut thru, some is wood tough
Figure if it’s cutting (not splitting) sharper helps

Files:

 

Yea
You have pretty good splitting wood .
Bet it’s rare to have to run the wedge
all the way down,
then use a hatchet to finish it off
I think some birch has some gum genes

 

Yeah I've had my splitter for 10 years and never touched the wedge.

If it wasn't raining I'd go out and take a pic but I don't think it looks too bad.

 

I remember keeping the splitting wedge nice and sharp on a small electric splitter I used inside, years ago. It helped...

 

Need to sharpen my wedge, found a couple of nails /spikes in a couple of rounds recently.

 

I don't have a hydraulic splitter but the one on my split second is pretty sharp.