Anne:
Could the tools be shaped to create
molding? I’ve seen planes with notched blades used for that purpose.
Amanda Dyer
Bell County Museum
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Two Strange
Drawknives
Perhaps somebody on the list could help
me with identifying two strange (to me, anyhow) woodworking tools. Both are basically
like drawknives, in that they have a crosspiece with a handle at each end and
are obviously to be drawn toward the user. However, instead of a straight
blade, one has a crosspiece that curves downward at the center into a V shape.
At the bottom of the V, it turns 90 degrees back toward the user and ends in a
chisel blade, beveled and about 7/8 inch wide. It looks as though it was meant
to put a groove in something, but what? The other looks more like a drawknife,
except that there are only short sections of sharpened blade on either end with
a large inverted U shape extending perpendicularly between them, not sharpened.
The two blades are on a flat plane between the user’s hands, but seen
from above they angle slightly away from the user toward the center and the
sharpened edges are slightly curved. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
If you’re all baffled by my
attempts at description, I could send photos.
Many thanks,
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