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May 07, 2011 Rating Unknown..trying to find info by: Anonymous You have a folding draw knife. Is 12 inches the over all length, or the blade length? The most common blade length is 8 inches. The handles fold in to protect the blade when it is stashed in a tool box. A very common carpenter's tool, and not restricted to any specialized wood working trade.

Oct 09, 2010 Rating It is a folding handle draw knife by: DaveP type "draw knife" into search on ebay and you'll see several for sale. Most don't have folding handles though. They're used for planing wood down quickly, especially spindles for chairs. They were typically used with a "shaving horse", which is a bench that the woodworker sat on, straddling one end and he clamped the workpiece on the other end in a vice sort of thing that was operated by foot pedal pressure. The woodworker would pull his draw knife across the top of the workpiece toward himself. You'll find videos of people using them on YouTube. Roy Underhill uses one frequently on the PBS series, "The Woodwright's Shop".

Apr 27, 2010 Rating Trimming tool for hourses hooves by: Anonymous I seem to remember seeing, as a child, such a tool used to trim a horse's hoof before reshoeing it.

Nov 29, 2008 Rating draw-knife by: Anonymous I wouldn't call it a spoke-shave unless it had a fixed blade like a plane. (I might be wrong on that, but that's what I would do...) I would call it an adjustable handle draw-knife. The adjustable handles and curved blade give more choice to the angle of the draw. My guess is that this kind of draw-knife would have been popular with oak barrel makers who would be working with green wood.

Sep 07, 2008 Rating Old Tool ? by: Bill in Houston Yes, it probably is an old tool, but it doesn't have to be. You can still buy a "spokeshave" in one of today's woodworking specialty shops. It is, as you say, for shaving wood by hand,usually to make it into posts, spindles or columns. Bill, Houston, TX

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