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Offline skipskip

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Primitive wood working tool?
« 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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Offline lptools

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Re: Primitive wood working tool?
« Reply #1 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??
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Re: Primitive wood working tool?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2019, 06:58:30 AM »
It is a bark spud, used to remove bark from a log. 
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Re: Primitive wood working tool?
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2019, 07:14:49 PM »
interesting tool.   reminds me of a flensing knife.
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Re: Primitive wood working tool?
« Reply #4 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.
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