Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: lebaron on February 02, 2013, 09:53:27 AM
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What is this used for. There is no name on tool. Has a sharp edge.
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That is an adze.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adze
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Many thanks.
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It's an adz, but an odd one. The hammer head makes me think of a cooper's adz, but the deep curve of the blade looks like a bowl adz instead. Yet bowl adzes are curved like gouges. What it would be excellent at doing is hollowing out canoes. I had to do that once, and forged a carpenter's adz into a curve like yours.
It's definitely a special use adz of some sort,
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Cooper's trussing adze....
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Cooper's trussing adze....
I think you are right i saw amish use them to fit the beams when building a barn bob w.
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the amish usually use a foot adz on barn beams.that adz is used in barrel making,thus a coopers adz.
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My first thought on seeing this adze was cooper's trussing adze. But the acute angle of the blade bothered me. I had never seen one quite like this. Outils Anciens ( http://outils-anciens.xooit.fr/t4514-Vieux-Marche-Bruxelles-Septembre-2012.htm?start=90 ) gives another view. Attached are
photos of three examples of a "cooper's rounding adze" and the relevant passage from Salaman.
This is a cooper's rounding adze rather than a trussing adze.
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The adze is a wonderful tool. I have a number of them, from the cooper's trussing, two sculptor's adzes, several foot adzes, a couple of shipwright's adzes, and even a gutter adze (shaped like a giant gouge, for carving out wooden gutters). Once spent 14 days with a foot adze, 7 hr per day, working beams for a new building that had to duplicate the 1930s beams in the main house.
Before the invention of the plane, the adze was the tool used for smoothing wood. There's a drawing of a Greek carpenter (from an ancient Greek ceramic) that shows him using a rather light adze to smooth a piece of wood. There is a thong attached to the adze that is tied to his shoulder to contain the arc of the swing so that each stroke is consistent.
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the amish usually use a foot adz on barn beams.that adz is used in barrel making,thus a coopers adz.
the foot adz shaped the beam the littlt adz is used to fit the beams to a tight fit bob w.