Garrett Wade One-Handed Adze For Carving And Smoothing. Carbon Steel Head And Ash Handle
175,00 USD
Description
The Adze has been around almost forever. Shipwrights, carpenters, and railroaders all had their own version of it. Archaeologists have found stone-relief sculptures of Egyptian boat-makers using the tool, and indigenous tribes of the Pacific Northwest used the Adze for both the practical (canoes) and the ceremonial/artistic (masks and totem poles). Adzes continue to be useful in artisanal woodworking tasks such as beam-making as well as sculpture. Our Hand Adze has a shaped carbon steel head sec