Adamantine - X?

[Andor]

So supposing you had a lump of adamantine to make something out of, and no particular need for a weapon, since you're not a suicidal adventurer. What tool benefits most from being eternally sharp and ignoring hardness, and why?

An adamantine hammer, frex, is fairly stupid. You gain no benefit except your hammer is extra shiny.

But an adamantine shovel could dig effortlessly all day long though any sort of soil, and would chop right through those annoying roots and stones.

So what are you asking Santa for, craftsmen and laborers of the world?

 

[Voadam]

Axe.

Chisel.

Knife.

 

[Voadam]

Plane.

Scalpel.

Saw?

A wire between two dowels like as used to cut clay when made with normal wire.

 

[Papewaio of The Org]

The same benefits as going from wood to stone to bronze to iron to steel... admantine would just be the next on the list

 

[ValhallaGH]

An adamantine hammer, frex, is fairly stupid. You gain no benefit except your hammer is extra shiny.

Unless I break big rocks for a living. Then a hammer that smashes granite the way my boots smash bugs is a god-send.
Note that I'm talking about a sledge, not a warhammer.

Knife,
hatchet,
saw,
scissors,
cutter (like a paper cutter, only for everything),
Bolt Cutter / tin snips,
shovel,
mining pick,
sewing needle,
boot toes: protect your feet and let you kick butt in bar brawls.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

A drill (our group carries an adamantine drill).

My rogue had his thieves' tools made out of adamantine after a while, just in case.

Brad

 

[waterdhavian]

I would have to go with a crowbar, hatchet, or pickaxe. The crowbar would never dull or bend, the hatchet would be able to chop most anything and the pickaxe would make quick work of any rock/mineral short of adamantine ore.

 

[Alzrius]

If I were a miller, since some part of milling grain involves pulverizing them, perhaps the adamantine would best be used that way (as the pulverizer)? It'd make a much finer, richer grain, by which I could easily undercut my competition.

 

[Wolv0rine]

A plough, an axe, a scythe, a saw, a needle.

Off the top of my head. The plough tops the list for a common everyman though.

 

[Numion]

Shopping channel knife set. Really cuts through anything and stays sharp.