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WLA brooklynmuseum Boat Building Scene 2
WLA brooklynmuseum Boat Building Scene 2
Adzes, Marshall and Yap Islands - Pacific collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05732
Adzes, Marshall and Yap Islands - Pacific collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05732
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Japanese adze.

An adze is an ancient type of "edge tool". It dates back to the stone age.

Adzes are used for smoothing or carving wood in hand woodworking. They are similar to an axe, but with the head mounted perpendicular (at right angles) to the handle. The cutting edge was made from chipped flint in the Mesolithic, polished stone in the Neolithic, and metal later on.

A very similar (but blunt) tool used for digging in hard ground is called a mattock.

Images for kids

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    Adze

  • Native Alaskan boat builder

    Native Alaskan boat builder using an adze

  • Adzes from New Guinea

    Contemporary stone adzes from New Guinea

  • Cooperadze

    Cooper's adze

  • 19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe

    19th century knowledge woodworking adze and axe

  • Making paddle with adze, Tobi, Western Caroline Islands, Micronesia

    Micronesian of Tobi, Palau, making a paddle for his wa with an adze

  • Rye Shipyard- the Construction of Motor Fishing Vessels, Rye, Sussex, England, UK, 1944 D22783

    Rye Shipyard- the Construction of Motor Fishing Vessels, Rye, Sussex, England, UK, 1944 D22783

  • SainteMarieAmongTheHuronsAdze

    A craftsman uses an adze to square beams, and to recreate 17th-century colonial life.

See also

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