At 12:00 PM 1/3/2008, Bill Taggart wrote:
>Apparently the poll of an adze serves the same purpose as saw nibs...

Oh please....

The spiked poll adzes are listed in just about every catalog going 
back to Joseph Smiths Key as ship's carpenter adzes.

That being said, at the very basic building a ship or a larger boat 
frame is the same techniques as timberframing a barn.  Joints to be 
made, beams and ribs to be hewn, etc.  Yes, ship building requires 
more knowledge of what makes a boat float, but the core techniques 
for getting the wood done are the same.

THAT being said, I see plenty of these adzes around with the spikes 
either mushroomed, bent, worn or broken off, to know that they were 
used.  Seating nails,. seating pegs,  what every it was, they were used.

What ever they were using them for, they were using them hard.

Saw nibs my arse!!!!!

Tony

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