Hehehe!  Got you up outta your chair, didn't I?

Heheheh...  

- Bill T.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Seo [mailto:tonyseo@p...]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 12:23 PM
To: Bill Taggart; 'Gary Roberts'; oldtools@r...
Subject: RE: [OldTools] Adze's spikes

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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