I have recently acquired the Husqvarna Carpenters axe. I was looking for an all purpose medium sized axe to go camping and to use around the house.

My use case is predominantly splitting small logs (store bought for a small fireplace), use around the campfire, cutting of small branches and trees and then I might mess around with carving at some point. I don't plan to do anything too finessed like making spoons etc.

I researched the best way to upgrade my axe, and getting it sharp came up as the main upgrade.

I found this video of the "rag method" which seems easy enough to do:

https://youtu.be/tWIxWjrhpv0?si=cICH6mmfBX7Cx86S

My concern is that this may reprofile my axe into a more specialist form, making it better at carving and worse at splitting. My goal is to try and keep it as much of an all purpose axe as possible. (Yes, I know better to have two for each use case, but it is what it is).

Am I overthinking this? Should I just go ahead and make it sharp as per the video? Or am I better off keeping it as factory standard for my use case.

Thanks in advance!