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Homemade Froe. Picture HEAVY!
Topic Started: Jan 18 2012, 08:24 PM (1,750 Views)
Greebe
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So I have been in need of a froe lately for some of the woodworking I have been doing. A member from the BCUSA forum was kind enough to send me a chunk of leaf spring to make one from.

Here is the leaf spring as I got it from Randy.
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First thing I did was take a flap sanding disk on my angle grinder to clean off the rust. I then laid out the profile that I wanted for the end.
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I then cut it with a cut off wheel in the angle grinder.
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I then put the flap sander disk back on the grinder and round over the edges.
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Then I spent a fair bit of time using a grinding wheel on the angle grinder to profile the edge. I was shooting for what I thought might be about 30 degrees as that is the angle Drew Langster suggested in his book, "Green Woodworking".
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If you look closely you will see that I removed the bushing that was in the eye in the previous picture. I did this so that when I install the handle, the eye will spring out a bit allowing it to grip the handle tightly.
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Then just for kicks, I put a bevel gauge on it set to 30 degrees, and whammo I was exactly 30 deg. That was some good eyeball work.
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All that was left to do was to make a quick handle so that I could start using it. At some point I will make a longer one, but for now this will work.
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That is it. Overall it probably took about two hours to do the entire thing. Next I need to make a large mallet for striking it with and away I go.

Thanks for looking, and let me know what you guys think.

Greebe

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