I just had a problem where I was automatically kicked me out because of a
technical problem. 

Please send me the link so I can resubcribe.

Thanks, Donna Cartelli

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Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Two Strange Drawknives

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
Conservator
Los Angeles, CA
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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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