#SHIPWRIGHTS ADZE FREE#

It just about begs you to pick it up and try it out. It's a truly beautiful and dynamic-looking edge-tool. The handle sturdy, and the form light, agile& elegant.

And would appear to help shear off the chip at the edges of the cut away from the adjacent wood, so it wouldn't split off material, neatening up the cut& making more of a flat scoop than cleaving off a flake like an axe. Usually one finds adzes that are straight. The expert carpenters wielding such a tool were highly specialized, their trade required enormous skill& dedication, lots of trained, muscular hard& patient work. This would be one of the rarer forms, and appears to be a good, useable example, dating from the days when ships were built of wood and required lots of careful hewing, trimming, chipping and fitting of the massive hardwood ribs of the ship's skeleton. This listing is for what we believe is known as the Shipwright's Adze. Displaying three different types of this important tool, which we believe are known as: The Straight Adze. STEEL& WOOD For your collecting pleasure we feature a group of three antique adzes. Contact us with any questions.ĪNTIQUE SHIPWRIGHT'S ADZE FORGED IRON. Any other form of payment except for wooden nickels. Or, in Van Nuys(San Fernando Valley) Can be delivered for a nominal charge within California.

#SHIPWRIGHTS ADZE FREE#

Free pickup is available at our office in Santa Monica. Antique condition with natural shrinkage. Some minor hinges and some ring pulls are fractured. Interior of lid has book-matched figured mahogany veneer with birds-eye maple border. This mahogany lined toolbox/ tool chest is from the mid 1800's. Remarkable Find! XoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooY XoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooZ- Here is an unbelievable antique relic: a real treasure chest for storage of tools. XoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooX blank cell at left end of row- U-Con$ign Online presents. This is an unusual old caulking hammer so if you have any questions please ask& I will do my best to answer them. Shipping is $12.35 in the continental US, USPS Priority Mail Fixed Rate Medium size box& to Canada would be $41 USPS Priority or $28 USPS First Class. Like the other 2 caulking hammers that I have listed this is from the estate of an old shipwright in the Port Townsend/ Port Hadlock area of the Olympic Northwest. I can find no maker's name on this mallet. Handle is loose enough that I can pull it& ship that way. Handle has a rectangular head that measures 1&1/4' by 1' is 11&1/8' long from bottom of mallet head to end. Handle is probably not original, looks like old oak& has 5 or 6 pin holes in it that may have been from powder post beetles. more than any I have seen& are roughly an inch wide.

Both faces were very feathered& I just barely faced them with a sharp saw. One'end' of the mallet head measures 4&1/4' long, the other end measures 4&1/2' both ends being slotted. Center piece is roughly 5' long& rounded top& bottom, 2&3/4' wide on the rounded top& bottom, a little over 1' tall across the flat sides with two brass pinions side to side. It has a very unusual head that is hard to describe. Entire mallet weighs 2&1/2# ironwood head is 13&3/4' long& 1&3/4' diameter inside the steel rings. I think it could be made usable but I feel that it should probably be in a collection& not used. This is probably one of the oldest caulking mallets that I have personally ever seen.

Shipwrights adze