GGs:

   Everybody knows that a froe with a sharp shoulder on the top edge---like this
'deluxe' one has---is no good, right? I bought one like it, that had been
'restored' from being mushroomed by splitting firewood with a sledge hammer, and
the restorer had painstakingly ground and filed a clean square trailing edge on
it. He put a fair amount of work into it, and was pretty proud OF it, and
thankfully it wasn't me who had to tell him he'd wasted most of his time. Still,
it was worth whatever I paid for it, maybe $30?, and a few minutes with a tailed
demon and a few more minutes with a file restored the gently curved butt cheeks
of a levering tool that doesn't waste stock.
  Dogwood for a beater has never been excelled, in my experience, though black
locust seems to be just as good...
           
                               and all the best to all galoots everywhere; gam
in OlyWA/USA

                                             


 

   
 
 
 Michael posted this 'gentleman's froe'---with stand!

Been trying to locate a pic of the Alex Bealer Award from ABANA. That's a
Froe! Engraved, carved, with a stand,

https://www.flickr.com/photos/10735775@N.../51132363939/in/dateposted-public/


(from a 2012 Hammer in-knew it was a cool froe, totally ignorant as to what
it was or why SMH)