This makes me miss hanging out with my old man in his shop, watching him take tools and random things he'd find and turn them into either another useful tool or some kind of piece of art. My uncle gave him a piece of purple heart wood that he found and my dad made it into a small boat paddle to go with my mom's ship art. It had a tiny worm hole in it and he left it in it, and it was used as the hanging piece so she didn't have to mount a hanger to it. She still has it, though he's gone now, but watching channels like this really make my heart go back to a happy place of my childhood.

@pmacc3557

3 ай бұрын

The man is making us jealous. Fair play to him. Can't beat the ol' boys😊

I got caught up watching the process and ended up learning what a "froe" is. This video was a two-for- one!

@playerone9705

3 жыл бұрын

Happy humon noise

@online12plus

3 жыл бұрын

it was a two froe one

0:29 my man knows how to make straight lines without a ruler

Perfect! I need a large froe and was about to buy one then saw the price! This is exactly what I need. This is also a perfect KZread video in my book; no annoying background music, just the sound of the work. The maker has obviously made a lot of things in his life given the fluency of this; it's very enjoyable to watch. Liked, subscribed and saved for future reference. 👍 🇬🇧

@pmacc3557

3 ай бұрын

Good stuff. Did you make one? What metal did you get for the blade?

The end where the wood was chopped so perfectly, was gorgeous.

by the effects of quarantine videos like this have become very interesting

Hey i gotta tell you when you took the blade out of that saw and re-attached it inside the loop of that leaf spring that might have been some of the smartest shit ive ever seen

@TheHarleyhillbilly

4 жыл бұрын

Cole Wyman that was a smart move.

@brian9731

4 жыл бұрын

I'm a service engineer for security systems (CCTV, alarms etc). Sometimes, what I do is mechanical or electrical and other times it's sitting at a computer dealing with software. Add to that, it's on customer premises, not on a fully equipped workshop and often (though not right now with Covid-19) it's with what I can carry on public transport in Central London. It makes me very resourceful!

@chadmoyer1453

3 жыл бұрын

Lol.

@davidmiller134

3 жыл бұрын

Then we're thinking why didn't I do that

You know what’s better than voiceover commentary? Text commentary that says “let me play you the song of my people” as an angle grinder goes about making chipped fire. I like it. 👍🏼

I love the little notions he adds every so often, they make the experience just that more enjoyable.

@TheSmallWorkshop

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Some people think they are cringy.

@acrazydurian

2 ай бұрын

@@TheSmallWorkshop and those people are WRONG

As a purist, this kills me. As a realist, I Love it! As a woodworker that Steel hammer on a steel tool made me cringe. But overall GREAT JOB! (I need a froe, hence my finding your video)

@kool-aidcherryc6523

4 жыл бұрын

I loved it to

@rossbrumby1957

4 жыл бұрын

Splitting kindling I wouldn't call woodworking.

@nickbacon8292

4 жыл бұрын

It looked to me like a rubber mallet

@jeffreybarnes1478

3 жыл бұрын

The steel hammer on steel tool bothered me also. Try a wood mallet. Great job on the video though.

@michaelmccoy1794

3 жыл бұрын

Here in the pacific northwest froes are used to split cedar into blocks for milling into shakes and shingles. We don't use a wooden mallet (laughing my guts out). We use a mallet with a heavy cylinder of lead for a head.

It’s unreal how this man turns scrap metal and things into amazing pieces of craftsmanship.

@TheSmallWorkshop

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@badbrain8279

4 жыл бұрын

I had one of these once. "Mother Earth News" showed how to make one. After trying this again with a storebought one many years later I decided it was too much trouble. You have to get straight grained wood with almost no knots which is very hard to do these days. I've always wondered how pine would do. There is nearly none available here.

@kool-aidcherryc6523

4 жыл бұрын

Idk and know one knows he dose magic

@kool-aidcherryc6523

4 жыл бұрын

Also The Small Workshop why don’t you talk like you have to do this first then this why do you not talk

@skinfish8929

4 жыл бұрын

@@badbrain8279 it works with pine wood , I did some , in the past . I made a froe like this , somme yrs ago , with Triumph Spitfire leaf spring , ( it was too thick ) then I tried a gransfor bruks one( I made a video on KZread , of epicea shingles making ) , and then found a very old one , forged here ( SW of France ) that was rusted but very good to use .

This channel is not only interesting but oddly satisfying. Usually can make me fall asleep if it’s late enough. No homo just chill

YOU. ARE. AMAZING! 😍 I love watching you work. What you create is awesome, and the fact it is done in a small shop with common tools makes it that much better. Keep up the great work, sir! 👍🏼

BRAVO!!! I watched this one several times, and it just keeps gettin' better! Thanks for the video!

I love your tape measure marker

it's so cool what you do with old rusted stuff ! i've always wanted to find old things and turn them into something useful, like a long gone rusted car. i wish i had this patience and talent..

I liked how he placed all of the items on his workbench, then started grinding..., with his hearing protection left sitting on the bench. File that under: Things we did when we were younger, but that now we regret. ;)

@johnbutterworth608

4 жыл бұрын

That was the spare set for trainees.

what a smart project ... I liked it and I think I'll make one for myself

That is waaaay cool. I never would have thought of a leaf spring. The froe I bought decades ago was a ring of pipe welded to a blade and I made my own handle. It got lost in one of my moves so now I'm gonna make my own. I'm thinking I would weld the loop closed so the leverage won't twist it open. I have a whole dead ash tree and I can't wait to split it up into baseball bats and shaker rockers. Thanks for the video!

here we go, 2 a.m and this pop up. time to watch.

Great job, nice work.

Ok, now take the rest of that leaf spring and make an awesome DRAW KNIFE with it.

@horseblinderson4747

3 жыл бұрын

Cloggers peg knife, elbow and tang adzes. Leaf springs are decent steel.

Excellent video; better job on a very useful splitting tool that will last generations!!! Absolutely superb!!! God bless!!! Chuck Knight from Buffalo, Texas. 🤠

Very nice build! I love watching you fabricate a very helpful tool

It’s exactly what I was thinking it would be from! I had been looking for a leaf spring ever since I saw your picture. It’s weird how occasionally I will see shattered fragments of leaf springs on the side of the road, but never when I specifically look for them. Sometimes trucks or trailers get overloaded or hit a pot hole and the leaf springs get ruptured from the mounts and I see them just laying there. But now that I want to find one, I will never see another one again. I saw someone else make one from the hinge from a barn door.

@TheSmallWorkshop

4 жыл бұрын

I think spring steel is better than barn door hinge steel. You should find cheap leaf springs at car scrap yards.

@dustinv8540

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSmallWorkshop thanks for sharing this build. May I ask the size of the spring? Or which common vehicle to get it from? Is the diameter recommended to be a size specific?

@rossbrumby1957

4 жыл бұрын

Not all leaf spring end loops are ideally shaped like that one, many don't have the blade section central to the circle. This won't affect the operation of the froe, but for symmetry and looks I'd find one like used here.

Great tutorial and agree it is way better without the usual random muzak found on others ! :-). For a more robust tool that stays on the handle when really levering take the Froe to your local garage and have them drop a weld down the hole-blade junction. Did that for mine many years ago and it has been super solid.

To catch your grinder sparks (learnt this from Veradona in the Czech Republic), get a thin sheet of steel, bend at a right angle so it will stand up by itself, attach a few strong magnets to the back. When you're done, lie the shield down, remove the magnets, use the shield as a funnel to tip the dust into a container for disposal. Brilliantly simple

One more video, before I go to bed (4am) Here I am wayching a blacksmith make a froe.

Brilliant! The simplicity was great

I really enjoyed that. I'm still using something similar that my Father made in the Sixties, but with the metal tubular handle welded on in line with the blade.

Brilliant work 👏👏💯

If you make a pair of them, do you then have a two & fro? 😜😂😂👍🇦🇺

Excellent project and video! Thanks for sharing.

Pretty beautiful job, dude! Really fantastic!!! 😃

Hey that's great! Brilliantly simple device.

On a scale of 1 to 10, that was an ELEVEN. Nice work. (May I order one please???)

This is great. I've been thinking about buying a froe but I would much rather work with one I made myself.

Dang, I gotta go find a spring!!! To easy.

This is an excellent idea, I think I’ll find a leaf spring and try to make a froe and a draw knife from it.

Pacat ca faci clipuri atat de rar, esti bun si meriti mai mult

@DanielH

4 жыл бұрын

Puțin si bun

@TheSmallWorkshop

4 жыл бұрын

Multumesc, mai greu cu timpul...

@DanielWorkshop

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheSmallWorkshop ca la toti. Timpu-i problema.

Love it, and it saves you a lot of money!!

Bravo, esti artist cu ustensilele !

@TheSmallWorkshop

4 жыл бұрын

Multumesc!

I like seeing how creative people are able to repurpose stuff that would end up in a junkyard or worse a landfill.

Excellent work👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing.

Great Job I love the idea I will be working on my......Thanks!!!

A very handy outcome

Thanks for sharing that, well done

Fine job indeed and the result is working well!! Love those vids keep up the good work!

What can you use an angle grinder for? Yes.

@valentinheredia5558

3 жыл бұрын

Cut-off-wheel

Leaf spring is the best solution to make a froe, very good job! 👍Idid one with a lown mower blade, it's ok too.

Ahh the humble angle grinder, so versatile.

Amazing craft , good job!!

Brill - thanks for sharing!

Thanks for your ingenuity.

Great idea. It would be good to have about three of these with three different size blades for the shop. One shorter, one longer, and one the same size.

Very nice clip. Nice filming, lighting and very clear. And you did a good job on the project itself.

Love the Galileo reference

Thanks, it’s gonna make splitting kindling easier and less messy.

a couple of suggestions, if you have the ability to oil quench the froe to harden the blade and temper it, just to ensure it is hardened properly. Also never hit the spine of the froe with a metal hammer, use a wooden baton

@yonig88199

6 ай бұрын

What is this "oil quench" thing?

Necessity is the mother of inventions

Good beer choice! Hai noroc! 🍻

Great job!

Nice work and great idea.

well done sir

That was really awesome to watch! Bad ass

Beautiful!

@TheSmallWorkshop

26 күн бұрын

Thank you!

That is really neat.

That was very satisfying to watch :)

Nice tool, never seen before

That's badass bro.

Good job!

Nice to the point and functional

Good meticulous work!

One of the simplest ways of making a froe I've seen yet

I looked all over for a good looking froe and a way to make one. I built my almost exactly like yours. I used a friends hydraulic press to straighten the leaf spring. I am curious to see how the eye hold up. I know that you welded it eventually but I saw another video were the guy said that keeping it opened helped the handle to be pinched and not fall out as easily. Lot of comments on here are from people who do not know about froes. Some good comments to but... You did a great job.

@TheSmallWorkshop

Жыл бұрын

I welded the eye because when it was opened it got loose really fast. After welding I had zero problems with it, so I recomend welding. And thanks!

My favorite part of the video is when you show good safety etiquette by unplugging the angle grinder to change the disk.

@TheSmallWorkshop

4 жыл бұрын

I had one start on me out of the blue once, because it's button failed... Weird design, the switch was always on and a lever was keeping it off, when the leaver failed the button went to it's natural state of ON and it started jumping on the floor... Scary stuff! (It was not a Makita)

@Hawkeye4077md

4 жыл бұрын

I like how the earmuffs are just sitting there on the bench. Great video. Awesome idea though.

@stovepipe9er

4 жыл бұрын

Good to see all the safety Sally’s are here.

@yeagerxp

4 жыл бұрын

@@stovepipe9er The safety Sallys are correct we should not knock them, I am 59 years old and am going to the family "I didn't hear what you said, please repeat" WTF I never used hear protection

@Wuffman

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed that and was glad to see it as well. Demonstrating good safety practice deserves a pat on the back.

Excellent video!!!

Awesome video. This will be a great help for me in finishing my froe. BUT...no metal mallet. Use a wooden one!

Him: gets hit by sparks on all places possible. Also him who had the infinity gantlet under his skin the whole time: “ tis but a mere scratch”

Very clever 👏 👌 😀

I want one and live in NYC and don't even need a wood chopping tool 🤗

Well done!

Very cool idea.

Wouah great tool, never seen that before Great work too 😺

Good job man

Ok, so I ended up watching this as I'm about to replace an ash handle on a small axe. Wow, what a brilliant tool. I have to chop some kindling this afternoon so now I've seen this I won’t be satisfied until I've made one. Of course we're on lock down here in the uk so no chance of getting to a breakers yard for a leaf spring for a while. Have subscribed so I'll have to be content with watching someone else make stuff for now. Stay safe and keep up the great work. 👍🏻

@stich1960

4 жыл бұрын

Just grab one off a neighbor's car, sure they won't mind.

Gallileo made wood splitters? I'd no idea. Great vid mate.

My grandpa used to make garden shoes out of leaf springs! I have one he made that is close to 100 years old

Great job

nice froe bro.

Thank you

gracias genio idolo! ahora a crear el mio!

MAGNIFICIENT 👍!!!

A USEFULL tool good job

Hi 👋 good idea 👍good job 👍

Now that’s cool!

Super like your video

Nice job

fabulous!

Roy Underhill would be proud