Apparently the poll of an adze serves the same purpose as saw nibs...
- anon
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Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [OldTools] Adze's spikes
GG's
This from a shipwright...
http://pages.sbcglobal.net/djf3rd/page25.html
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Gary
Gary Roberts
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On Jan 3, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Eric Myers wrote:
My uncle was recently informed by a boat wright that the spike is used for
shredding the end grain of a dowel or peg so that it absorbs more water,
causing it to swell and fit more tightly.
Eric
--- Todd Hughes wrote:
> I was at a yard sale once of an old guy that was a wooden boat
> builder and
> had actually built a few Skip Jacks and worked on Chesapeake bay
> log canoes
> and I bought a couple of his spike ship adzes and I asked him about
> those
> spikes. Told him I had always heard they were for drving in nails
> or spikes
> that were in the wood....He got a big laugh about that and admited
> he had
> heard that too but never from anybody that had used them. He told
> me when
> they were building a boat they would drill holes in the wood from
> the
> outside to the depth they wanted the wood to be thick , then they
> would adze
> down till they hit the hole stop and then plug them with a wooden
> dowel they
> carried in thier pocket and knocked in place with the Adze poll
> then keep
> on working. Said with out these holes very hard or impossiable to
> know
> exactly how thick the wood is since they are working inside the
> boat's hull.
> He even told me the reason he thought old Adzes have a bigger poll
> was
> because back then they used bigger dowels because they drilled
> bigger holes,
> latter ones used smaller holes and dowels......Interesting.....he
> alson
> confirmed my suspician that the reason you see so many lip adzes
> with the
> lips ground off was because it makes them easier to sharpen.
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