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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 18 2012, 08:24 PM (1,750 Views) | |
| Greebe | Jan 18 2012, 08:24 PM Post #1 |
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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. ![]() 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. ![]() I then cut it with a cut off wheel in the angle grinder. ![]() I then put the flap sander disk back on the grinder and round over the edges. ![]() 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". ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. ![]() 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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