Hi Anne,
Many many years ago, far, far away I was a museum blacksmith at Colonial Williamsburg and have a deep academic interest in early American tools.
Send me some digital photos and I'll try to help.
Cheers!
Dave
David Harvey
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Los Angeles, CA
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From: Anne Lane <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:44:27
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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,
Anne
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