During a time in which Greens teach more uproariously than Christians it is fitting that famous Scriptural citations track down new green articulations. In Ghana, grassroots specialists have rethought Isaiah's vision of transforming swords into plowshares by transforming broken down band-saw sharp edges into cultivating cutlasses. Band-saws are utilized in Ghana's various sawmills to transform its powerful woodland trees into wooden boards, however making cutlasses from the old cutting edges is assisting little ranchers with taking care of themselves and their town networks. Albeit this movement does nothing straightforwardly to save the timberlands it reuses valuable imported material and safeguard it for use in a greener setting.

Band-saw edges are made of extraordinarily formed carbon steel that joins the properties of hardness with adaptability and shock opposition. The metal can give a sharp and strong forefront with the capacity to run bowed around steel rollers in a nonstop circle band sawing machine. As indicated by veterans of the sawmilling business, all that these edges can't endure is meeting a huge stone that has been conveyed up by the tree as it developed and become installed profound inside its colossal trunk. Obviously, steel of this quality is great for ranchers' cutlasses utilized for weed control and clearing scour.

In casual modern regions, or kokompes, as Suame Magazine in Kumasi, a cutlass creator's studio is recognized by a heap of old band-saw cutting edges lying close by. The change cycle is truly difficult work. The material is hard to such an extent that it tends to be cut exclusively by a sledge and etch. The sharp front line of the etch can endure a couple of blows before it needs re-honing and this is affected with the guide of an electric crushing machine, normally mounted on an old wooden seat. By this laborious cycle the layout of the cutlass sharp edge rises up out of the level steel sheet of the old band-saw cutting edge.

The state of the cutlass edge incorporates the diagram of the handle. Two openings are punched to permit a wooden handle to be held set up by bolts. The two wooden pieces of the handle are typically made by a craftsman and provided prepared molded to be fixed by the cutlass producer. With a wooden half-handle put on each side of the steel cutting edge, openings are penetrated through the wood and the three-section sandwich is held immovably together by two steel bolts. The cutlass is done by honing the state of the art on a similar crushing machine utilized for re-honing the etch. At the point when very much created, as a large number of them are, the privately made cutlasses are of tantamount appearance and viability as imported models.

The devout clerics of the green development might want to see the total protection of the tropical woodlands. This would involve the suspension of logging, the conclusion of sawmills and the inevitable downfall of the neighborhood grassroots cutlass industry. Ghana's ranchers would become subject to imports, or nearby creation in light of imported material, for their cutlasses as a whole. Almost certainly, set against the bigger green yearning, this penance would be effectively made.