Here in the Midwest, it will sell for $40-$60 depending on the market. I mainly sell spoons at craft fairs and not art fairs where it might sell for quite a bit more.
Great splitting demonstration! I’ve been very inefficient with my wood use and I expect your lesson here to increase my useable supply significantly. Thanks!
I've tried using a froe, but it has nothing but disadvantages compared to wedges for the kind of splitting I do. For one, many of the species I work with can be extremely tough to split, making it virtually impossible to start a froe into logs because it is several times wider than a wedge and thus take several times the initial force to start the split in a wide log. Plus, I often work with logs that are up to three feet in diameter, thus much wider than the froe itself. Also, many times I want to split right along the curve of a growth ring boundary and the straight blade of a froe can't do that, but using two or more wedges simultaneously can. To my reckoning, the only situations where a froe would be better is in making shingles/shakes or basket splints.
