Back in the 1970s a friend loaned my big brother an ice bar. It was simply a round bar with the end honed to a three sided chisel point.
It worked so much better then anything we had from the local stores that big brother decided to build his own.
He had no round stock to work with so he substituted the closest thing available, and abandoned steel fence post, the T shaped kind.
Making the three sided point was easy. All he had to do was grind each side of the Tee to a 60 degree angle and sharpen each side.
Then he cut a old baseball bat to fit, for a handle. The result far exceeded everyone expectation. It worked better then the bar it was supposed to emulate and far far better then any store bought bar we knew of.
These many years later we still use the same system for our ice bars, only now we cut the handles on a wood lathe, from birch we cut on the farm.
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