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		kaib on April 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New axe design uses lever action to make splitting... Can you elaborate on this? Having split a lot of wood it's not clear this design is affected by handedness.

vanderZwan on April 18, 2014 [–]

My immediate and apparently wrong assumption was that since it is asymmetrical, the improvement of the design was somehow tied to an optimisation for handedness, which in practice is always for right-handedness.

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