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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on August 22, 2019, 11:13:16 PM

Title: Primitive wood working tool?
Post by: skipskip on August 22, 2019, 11:13:16 PM

I need to name this fellow.

23 inches long

shaped like a chisel the long way

shingles?

bark removal ?

or the ever popular "cooper's tool"?

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Title: Re: Primitive wood working tool?
Post by: lptools on August 23, 2019, 04:15:38 AM

At first I thought it was a cane knife or a billhook, but it looks like it doesn't have a cutting edge near the hook. A splitting tool, like a froe??

Title: Re: Primitive wood working tool?
Post by: wvtools on August 23, 2019, 06:58:30 AM

It is a bark spud, used to remove bark from a log. 

Title: Re: Primitive wood working tool?
Post by: p_toad on August 23, 2019, 07:14:49 PM

interesting tool.   reminds me of a flensing knife.

Title: Re: Primitive wood working tool?
Post by: mvwcnews on August 24, 2019, 10:41:04 PM

Quote from: p_toad on August 23, 2019, 07:14:49 PM

interesting tool.   reminds me of a flensing knife.

Been re-reading Moby Dick lately?  Imagine that "green behind the ears" young man  waking up next to a tatooed Samoan in 182x.  Would have been a real eye opener for sure.