Cleaving is a Foley artist's bread and butter. The cleaver carries two events in quick succession — the blade striking and the material parting — and getting the second half right is what separates a real kitchen scene from a cartoon chop. Bone splits with a sharp crack and a wet undertone; tough meat resists for a moment before giving; a wooden cutting board adds the percussive thunk that anchors the strike in space. Each variation tells the audience what's being cut without showing the board.
This set has 13 cleaving sound clips covering those layers — clean cleaver chops on wood, bone-split impacts with the dry crack on top, meat hits at varied densities, and the blade pull-out that follows. Free to grab as MP3, no attribution needed, and the files are dry enough to room-match in any scene. Useful in horror foley, butcher-shop ambience, cooking videos that lean into the violence of prep work, and game audio for melee weapons where the second-half tail sells the impact.