Fast forward to beginning of last year, 2020, I decided to haft the harbor freight hatchet with a wooden handle to satisfy a bushclass elective. I had already thinned the cheeks down once. And I decided to take them down even more with a set of flap wheels and angle grinder before hafting it. The steel on mine is soft. More @Wikipedia
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