The “pin” – see diagram – is used for driving pegs or nails. Adzes are used by timber-framers, ship wrights (for wooden boats), carpenters, coopers (wooden-barrel makers), and others who engage in constructing larger projects than chairs. The carpenter’s adze – sometimes called a foot adze, a house adze or a house carpenters' adze – is used for smoothing a large surface such as the timbers in a building's frame or the boards in a floor. To help the user control the tool as it is swung, the adze's cutting edge is beveled on the side adjacent to the handle. An axe-like tool, the adze can be used for scooping, cutting, or slicing away the surface of a workpiece, especially where Coves, or other types of concave-shaped contours, including Windsor chair seats, are needed. Because it is a tool that cuts on the impact of it swing, the cutting bit on its head curves back toward the adze's handle. The adze consists of a cutting edge fixed at right angles to its handle. (Among numerous images, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary pictures a stone adze used by the Chalam Indians - who occupy the shores of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state - for hollowing out log canoes.) Over time, numerous variations in shapes and sizes have been created for different applications. Normally considered a two-handed tool, but some smaller versions are suitable for use with one hand. In use since ancient times, the adze is for hewing and smoothing of larger workpieces. As a verb, to adze means to carve or cut (at, out, etc.). Was used together with ring bolts called wrung- or wrain-bolts, to force the planks closer to their shape and the ship's frame.As a noun, a tool similar to an axe, its blade is set at right angles to the shaft and curving inwards towards it, used for cutting or slicing away the surface of wood. It consisted of a sturdy wooden rod, tapered at both ends. Wrung Staff: A shipwright's tool used in attaching the hull planking to the frame timbers. Late 19th century slide rule courtesy of Carle Bross Slide Rule: A shipwright's measuring tool. A wooden iron used to close and flatten the seams and stitching of sails. An iron wedge used to open up seams before caulking. Racing Knife A shipwright's tool to mark or race the shape to be cut, often to mark or score the shape of a mould onto a piece of timber. Pitch Ladle: An iron ladle used to pour boiling tar into deck seams to seal and make them watertight. Oker: Red chalk used by shipwrights to mark timber. Nog: A wooden treenail or pin used in shipbuilding. An iron tool used for extracting old oakum from seams. A caulking iron used when caulking deck seams. It was used to draw material away from the piece to be worked on. An iron or wooden mallet (heavy hammer) used to strike a variety of irons, to open and close seams or to fill seams with oakum.ĭrawing Knife: A shipbuilding tool with a long and slender sharp-edged blade and two handles, one on each end. A heavy iron mallet used to drive wedges ( irons) into the seams of wooden ships to open them before caulking.Ĭaulking Mallet: A shipbuilding tool.
A typical size would be a 1.4" (3.5cm) thick blade, a blade height of 4.1" (10.5cm) and a blade length of 7.4" (19cm).īeetle: A shipbuilding tool. De edge of the blade was either straight or curved, most were curved The angle of the blade also varied depending whether hard or softer wood was to be cut, a thinner blade was required for the hardest woods. The shape of the blade depended on the function of the axe. It was different from an axe in that it had a long slender curved blade set at a right angle to the handle.Īuger: A shipwright's tool for drilling holes in timbers.Īxe: A shipwright's tool, the shipwright's axe came in a variety of shapes. A Display Image label will display the image.Īdze: A shipwright's tool, similar to an axe, used for shaping and dressing wood.
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