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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on October 18, 2014, 09:38:24 PM

Title: I'm told this is a shake makers tool, but
Post by: skipskip on October 18, 2014, 09:38:24 PM

I cant find a picture under that name, I bet it's something else.

Shingle tool?

Wm Beatty and son
 cast steel
 Chester

with a pic of a cow over it

(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3928/14948209624_71fb38df2c_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/oLVtW9)AOCT0085 (https://flic.kr/p/oLVtW9) by skipskip (https://www.flickr.com/people/47985875@N00/), on Flickr

more pics here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/15383328970/in/set-72157648710018705/

Title: Re: I'm told this is a shake makers tool, but
Post by: Branson on October 19, 2014, 08:09:48 AM

Shake maker's ax?  I don't see how it would be useful in making shakes (which are usually made with a froe).  The "head" end is a little odd.  It might be a bec d'ane with the adz like end broken off.  But I think it's a version of a hurdle maker's ax, used to rough out the mortises in making hurdles.