Making a (better) Froe

Well, my old froe carked it. I made it from a piece of mild steel that I cut out of a sheet, so I didn't really expect it to last forever. But that meant I needed a new one. I picked up a lawnmower blade from the dump a little while ago, and I decided to bend it into shape and sharpen a blade on it and see how it went. I wasn't really in a rush, so I decided to do it with hand tools (and fire).

When you forge a bevel for a blade, you're supposed to bend the end down toward the blade edge. Unfortunately, I didn't quite re-curve it enough, and I ended up with a slightly high centered cutting edge, which I then had to grind and file flat again. After I did that, I had a go at a log. It was even a knotty log, but the froe was successful!

I was thinking about posting this in the metalworking badge bit for making a froe, but I don't actually have the image of the starting piece of metal, unfortunately.