. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. S + eel canoe owls The "canoe awl" of the fur trade was a steel awl with a blade triangular or square in cross-section, and was sometimes made of an old triangular file of small size. Its blade was locked into a hardwood handle, and it was a modern version of the old bone awl of the bark canoe builders, hence its name. The plane was also used by modern Indians, but not in white man's fashion, in which the wood is held in a vise and smoothed by sliding the tool for- ward over the work. The Indian usually fixed the plane upside down
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. S + eel canoe owls The "canoe awl" of the fur trade was a steel awl with a blade triangular or square in cross-section, and was sometimes made of an old triangular file of small size. Its blade was locked into a hardwood handle, and it was a modern version of the old bone awl of the bark canoe builders, hence its name. The plane was also used by modern Indians, but not in white man's fashion, in which the wood is held in a vise and smoothed by sliding the tool for- ward over the work. The Indian usually fixed the plane upside down on a bench or timber and slid the work over the sole, much as would be done with a. Crooked kni ^i:i:d power-driven joiner. However, the plane was not very popular among any of the canoe-building Indians. The boring tool most favored by the Indians was the common steel gimlet; if a larger boring tool was de- sired, an auger of the required diameter was bought and fitted with a removable cross-handle rather than a brace. One steel tool having much popularity among ca- noe-building Indians was the pioneer's splitting tool known as the "; This was a heavy steel blade, fifteen to twenty inches long, about two inches wide, and nearly a quarter inch thick along its back. One end of the blade ended in a tight loop into which a heavy hardwood handle, about a foot long, was set at right angles to the back edge of the blade, so that, when held in the hand, the blade was cutting edge down, with the handle upright. The froe was driven into the end of a balk of timber to be split by blows 21. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc. ]; for sale by the Supt.
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