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jakobe on April 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: New axe design uses lever action to make splitting...

Losening your grip just as the axe hits the wood also works for normal axes. Makes chopping a lot easier on the wrist.

stcredzero on April 18, 2014 [–]

Aren't there materials that become semi-fluid when a shock is applied to them? (The opposite of your non-Newtonian cornstarch fluid.) How about steel handled mauls covered with something like that?

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