Don’t try this at home! The keyboard warriors will tell you to never hot cut on your anvil face- but if your cutter is softer than the face of your anvil, the anvil isn’t damaged by over cutting, and you can easily regrind the cutting edge. That said, with practice, you can cut ALMOST through a piece, and get so close sometimes that the piece pops apart as it did here. Then, just shear off over the edge of the anvil to finish the cut. We’ve been making tons of these splits for the timber straps