January 27, 201313 yr I am new to this. Today I made my first tool and forge weld. Took an old farrier rasp, cut off the tang, drew out a tail and forge welded the eye to make this little froe. It seems to have held I torqued the handle pretty good testing it. Would be better if I had some more thickness but I was able to get a wedge profile. Something besides tongs and hooks at least my wife said.
January 27, 201313 yr Yeah! That is a good looking "Basketmaker's Froe" (we pros prefer NOT to call em light duty or wimpy). I like to have one like that in my carpentry kit for making shimming wedges and spacers. They work well for lots of uses. You got a pretty one! Now you need a heavy duty full sized one as a companion piece... I know! I know! You will be devastated to learn that you aren't done forging yet!!! But there it is... a pretty froe like that will be abused on heavier work than it is intended for... unless there is a heavy duty model also available... so back to the forge you go! :)
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