Easy, man. This isn’t one of those criticisms that claim you’re unscientific because you don’t test knives inside a supercollider. If you listen to some of those arguments over on BladeForums, you’d have to conclude that Galileo was an unscientific hack. I mean, rolling balls of different materials down troughs? What can anybody learn about gravity with such a primitive test? Where are his detailed statistical analysis? Where is his control group using different balls and different lumber for the troughs? Obviously the man was a scientific poseur!

Believe it or not, I was trying to help you and anybody else who doesn’t understand how to chop efficiently. You don’t have to trust me. Link to An Axe to Grind. Look up the chapter called Bucking. Grab an axe or your FBM. Try his method. Try your method. Come to your own conclusions.