Making a Simple Wood Splitting Tool (Froe)

Only three things were used to make this wood splitting tool, called a froe: A leaf spring from the junkyard, a cheap shovel handle from the hardware store and an angle grinder. This project is as simple as simple gets! It's hard to find a froe in my part of the world, we don't even have a word for this tool, so I decided to make one myself and looked for a suitable leaf spring at my local scrap yard. It's around 1/4 inch thick and a bit over 2 inches wide. I cut it at around 12 inches long, before the spring got too bent, which gave me a cutting edge of around 9 inches, which should be plenty enough for my needs. Shaping went quite easy and the end result looks pretty much like a froe, but the sharpening part was really time consuming and my entire workshop is now covered in angle grinder dust. But overall it's an easy project that can be done in an hour or so with just some basic tools.