Timber splits
Jared splitting different timber
This is the axe that came out of years of prototypes, different steels, different geometries. Chopped, split, refined and rebuilt until it earned the number 1 spot in my collection — the best splitting axe I own.
It was designed for one job: open the timber and get out. The geometry doesn’t bury. It pops the round, sheds the fibres and comes free instead of wedging itself into a fight you then have to finish with a second tool.
That was the whole brief. Not a wall piece. Not a compromise between pretty and useful. A splitter that doesn’t get stuck — and happened to come out beautiful because the lines that work also happen to be the lines you notice.
The edge has been hardened to above HRC 55. The handle is 900 mm, long enough to generate real force and honest enough that you forget it’s there until the wood opens. The head looks like something considered. It acts like something proven.
I still have the versions that jammed, rolled, or looked right and worked wrong. This is the one that split clean, came loose and never gave me a reason to reach for another.
Only a limited run of these Delta EQ1s will be made.
Disclaimer: We designed the Delta EQ1 not to get stuck, and in use that’s how it behaves far more often than any other splitter we’ve tried. We can’t guarantee it 100% of the time — a genuinely shitty, stringy or knot-bound bit of timber can still hang an axe. Compared with everything we’ve used, this one still comes free more cleanly and more often.
Jared splitting different timber
Strength and edge retention
Side-by-side with other brands
