The adze's new handle is crafted from strong acacia wood, sanded to perfection and polished with lacquer to bring out its natural beauty. Watch this incredible transformation as an antique tool is ...

Wayne Price is a Tlingit carver from Haines. He’s using an adze, a tool used by his ancestors thousands of years ago. Like most construction projects, the building site of the Walter Soboleff ...

Antique tools are more than just relics of the past ... Used in ship-building during the 18th and 19th centuries, these adzes were hand-forged and designed for shaping wooden hulls.

All three thought the tool looks like an antique dibber, used to make holes in the ground to plant seed and bulbs. Another reader guessed it’s an elbow adze, for woodworking.

Send your guess to Mary Ellen Wright at [email protected], with “Antique Toolbox” in the ... to pack rope caulking between logs; hand adze; tool for scraping off ice or mud, or scraping ...

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Why do you think people would adopt this new style of adze blades? Adzes tools come in many shapes and sizes (see Figure 1-4), which can be used for different activities. For example, a D-shaped adze ...

Mike and Mari Subritzky’s Vintage Tool Shop started as a single glass cabinet at the ... Some of their oldest tools come from France, such as the carpenter’s plane from 1742 or the wooden adze with a ...

Once the adze fulfilled its ritual duties, a hard stone was ground across the tool’s sharp edge to render it dull and useless, further microscopic study suggests. The researchers regard this act ...