A froe (or frow), shake axe or paling knife is a tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain. It is an L-shaped tool, used by hammering one edge of its blade into the end of a piece of …

Froes are designed for heavy duty work, the blade is 12" long and made from chunky 60mm x 10mm EN45 spring steel, to withstand the twisting forces exerted on it. Fully hardened and …

Make precise wood splits with the Redneck Convent Log Peeler Debarking Tool. It allows you to be much more accurate when splitting lumber, shakes, shingles, and turning blanks. You can …

Now made of case hardened steel, our wood splitting froe is better than ever. The blade is stronger, giving you more use and great results for kindling, shingles, furniture, baskets and …

A froe is used for the controlled splitting (riving) of green wood. Typical uses are shingle making, splitting saplings for fences, and splitting blanks for furniture making. In earlier days, they were …

A froe is the best way to split out green wood for chairmaking, shinglemaking, fencemaking, and pretty much any operation that calls for splitting. The tool is also known as a rending ax, split …

Froes or shake axe or paling knife is a tool for cleaving wood by splitting it along the grain. Froes are an L-shaped tool, used by hammering one edge of its blade into the end grain of a piece of …

The Gränsfors Froe is used to split wood very finely, for example when making shingles for a roof. The wood to be split is placed under the edge. The user steadies the tool with one hand on the …