Cleave

[Kepis]

This afternoons project, small wooden cleave for cleaving willow and bramble shoots for basket weaving, been wanting to make myself one for ages so today was the day.

This one is only a practice piece in Hazel, now i have worked a few things out i'll make a better one out of a nice bit of Beech

20180327_152524 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

20180327_152518 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

 

[baggins]

Nice one. Would love to see how it works. Do you just push it into the end of what you want to cleave?

 

[Kepis]

Nice one. Would love to see how it works. Do you just push it into the end of what you want to cleave?

Exactly that, if it works right it should give split the rod giving four nice pieces of material to work with

 

[crosslandkelly]

Nice job.

 

[Dave Budd]

nicely done. A useful tool and interesting little carving project

four blades is an unusual number, any reason for your choice there? French cleaves normally have two and English ones 3 blades. I haven't made one for a while (they are a bit fiddly to get them working just right, as you have no doubt found!) but I normally use box wood, though I'm sure beech will work well too

 

[Kepis]

four blades is an unusual number, any reason for your choice there?

yep, i cant count and i think ive gone blind too, marked it all out and started cutting then realised i had a gap, so i filled it with a fourth blade, too much speed and not enough haste springs to mind , was so intent in getting it done that i wasnt thinking

 

[Toddy]

Mark, you have pm.

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