A good friend of mine(now in his 90"s), showed me that technique of splitting about 30 years ago. Works great if your timing is correct. I prefer to operate a handle on the splitter!
ya, but how cool is it to be able to slice a wooden match in half? I guess I am fair to middling, don't know if I can do that BUT I AM GONNA PRACTICE NOW hehehehe I can hit the same crack pretty regularly, splitting the match though...give me an excuse to go find a box of them things, do they even make strike anywhere wooden matches any more? Haven't seen them on the shelves any place for like years now.
I'd race that guy if he was still around...he'd proly beat me but I'd give him a good run. And those guys on that hydraulic splitter.....what I said fifteen minutes after using a fiskars "you can't load a hydraulic this fast"
I'd put the fiskars SS up against his home made axe for that matter, but his is still WAY COOL for a home made unit.
Those have to be like collector axes now, I wonder how many he made? I'd like to try one.
He is sorta doing what that leveraxe is designed to do, or the "wrist snap" technique.