Tom

Good find, but since there is no image from the side, we don’t know if the tools
had a bent socket or not.  The ship gouges are smallish too, with 6-1/2 inch
blades as compared to 8 on the millwrights gouges.  Interesting to see (page 7)
that they measure the blades without the socket or tang to let you know how much
you can sharpen, so does this means that the blades in 1909 were not laminated?

Ed Minch




On Feb 25, 2015, at 11:18 PM, Thomas Conroy via OldTools  wrote:

> Relevant slicks and gouges appear on pp. 37-46.