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October 1972
12 years ago By admin
Volume23Issue6
- 1. Ice axe.
- 2. Post axe, used for cutting mortises in beams.
- 3. Lard squeezer.
- 4. Armrest, often used during long church meetings.
- 5. Feather-bed patter, used for smoothing out feather mattresses and quilts.
- 6. Wheel race, used for measuring the circumference of a wheel before fitting it with its metal rim.
- 7. Candlemaker. Wicks were tied to it and dipped into hot wax.
- 8. Leather, or beaming, knife, used for dressing hides.
- 9. Hay saw.
- 10. Screw, used for loosening sugar in a sugar barrel.
- 11. Wheelwright’s reamer, used for boring hub holes.
- 12. Froe, used for splitting wood into shingles.
- 13. Round shave, or scorper, used to smooth the inside of a barrel and also to make bowls of wood.
- 14. Hook pins, or drift hooks, used to peg beams together temporarily when laying a framework on the ground, before raising a house.