Spokeshaves

A spokeshave is a tool used to shape and smooth wooden rods and shafts, often for use as wheel spokes, chair legs or arrows. It can also be utilized to carve canoe paddles. Image File history File links Bugthoevl. ... Image File history File links Bugthoevl. ... This article is about a tool used as a piece of equipment. ... The force bearing on the axle has an eccentricity e with the point of contact to the rolling surface and exerts a moment about the contact point A wheel is a circular device capable of rotating on its axis, facilitating movement or transportation or performing labour in machines. ... Typical Western wooden chair A chair is a piece of furniture for sitting, consisting of a seat, a back, and sometimes arm rests, commonly for use by one person. ... Japanese arrow (ya) and head // Weapon An arrow is a pointed projectile that is shot with a bow. ...

Spokeshaves can be made from flat bottom, concave or convex soles, depending on the type of job to be performed. Spokeshaves can include one or more sharpened notches along which the wooden shaft is pulled in order to shave it down to the proper diameter. Historically, spokeshave blades were made of metal, whilst the body and handles were wood. By the twentieth century all metal versions were the most common.

Prehistoric spokeshaves were made of stone. In archeology, the term spokeshave is used to describe a tool, usually a uniface, that has at least one retouched lunate notch in one edge. In a sense, the term is a descriptive "catch-all" category, since it is difficult to determine if this was actually the way in which such a tool was used; the categorization is based entirely on the appearance of the tool. Ancient stone tools A stone tool is, in the most general sense, any tool made of stone. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... In archeology, a uniface is a specific type of stone tool that has been flaked on one surface only. ... Lunate is a term meaning crescent or moon-shaped. ...