Froe

[Cegga]

Hi!!
Much time over
So I did some froe to I don´t know what they are for so i made them after a pics I get so I hope they will work
I usual don´t make tools that I don´t know will work but this one I have know idea if I made the rigth way
Cegga

 

[Asa Samuel]

Look good to me, I've always wanted a froe

 

[Wayland]

Might be an optical illusion but isn't the edge supposed to be on the other side?

The sharp edge should be towards the top of the image.

 

[TallMikeM]

Might be an optical illusion but isn't the edge supposed to be on the other side?

The sharp edge should be towards the top of the image.

yeah, that's what I was thinking.

And I'm another one who's always wanted/needed a froe. I saw one in an "antiques shop" once for about £15. For some utterly inexplicable reason I didn't buy it. I must've been mad.

 

[Asa Samuel]

Might be an optical illusion but isn't the edge supposed to be on the other side?

The sharp edge should be towards the top of the image.

Looks to me like the edge is on the top where it's supposed to be?

 

[Cegga]

The edge are on the topside
Cegga

 

[Asa Samuel]

The edge are on the topside
Cegga

Thought so. How long is the blade and the handle?

Asa.

 

[Cegga]

Thought so. How long is the blade and the handle?

Asa.

From the neck it´s 450 mm and the handle are 480 mm
Cegga

 

[Wayland]

The edge are on the topside
Cegga

I couldn't quite make it out.

Looks like a good tool then, very nice.

 

[Asa Samuel]

From the neck it´s 450 mm and the handle are 480 mm
Cegga

Ok, thanks Let us know how you get on using them.

 

[British Red]

They look great - have tried them out yet?

I've been learning on one that Eric very kindly gave me a year or two back. They are simple in theory but to really guide the split and worky round wobbles and knots takes lots of practice - far more than I have had yet!

Great tools though - very much a "use by feel" thing (or so I have found so far)

Red

 

[Cegga]

Ok, thanks Let us know how you get on using them.

I will send them to a man in UK that order them and he will give them a hard work out and then I will get them evaluated
Cegga

 

[mr dazzler]

They look like you formed the eye by bending it and forge welding it shut? That is a better way then "welding a bit of tube onto a bit of bar". It is much stronger. I own a very old froe which works very well. It has a formed eye, and its blade was forged to a full vee shape (like a wedge, seen from the end), rather than a flat blade with a steep grind like you have here. The "kniv-blad" profile makes it easier to open the wood sometimes if it is reluctant, it starts the split gradually.

 

[mr dazzler]

I've been learning on one that Eric very kindly gave me a year or two back. They are simple in theory but to really guide the split and worky round wobbles and knots takes lots of practice - far more than I have had yet!

Have you built a cleaving brake? It makes riving about 55 times easier....

 

[Cegga]

They look like you formed the eye by bending it and forge welding it shut? That is a better way then "welding a bit of tube onto a bit of bar". It is much stronger. I own a very old froe which works very well. It has a formed eye, and its blade was forged to a full vee shape (like a wedge, seen from the end), rather than a flat blade with a steep grind like you have here. The "kniv-blad" profile makes it easier to open the wood sometimes if it is reluctant, it starts the split gradually.

Hi!
This one are forge all in one piece I use a square material same as I use in a
sledgehammeraxe I make a hole in one start and forge the blade after the hole
So the froe are in one piece no welding
Cegga

 

[mr dazzler]

Better still!