The Blacksmith’s Split Cross is an essential item to have in your inventory. Not only is it easy to make, but it is also a crowd pleaser at demonstrations because it takes a short time to craft the piece from the blank. This piece can be made with basic hand saws, an angle grinder with cutoff wheels, chisels and hot-cuts, or a fancy band-saw. I use my go-to: the angle grinder.

I made my first Split Cross in my soup can forge years ago. It is still hanging in my house today.