[snip]

Really? Do you have an example of something in a recent article or
publication where a tool, other than a chisel, was mentioned as needing
to
be sharp?

Yes. Bench planes. Card scrapers. Files. Handsaws.
Shovels...

Where in the world did you read something that said to dig the hole with a
"sharp shovel"? That's truly amazing!


Hatchets. ESPECIALLY hatchets. They're not sharp enough
to bite, they glance, sometimes into pieces of meat belonging
to say, you. Jerry Garcia lost one finger this way. Tony
Iommi from Black Sabbath lost two.

Doesn't leave much else besides hammers.