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shaped with a chisel, I needed a custom one for doing some DIY silicone for a bath so that the tool can get behind the taps, made from american white oak.
Some collection of completed orders. It is not often possible to put together so many of our creations that has been made in a while. This morning before saying "Goodbye" to our work we had a chance to document this happen.
These gouges and chisels came to me forty years ago, after my grandfather passed away. They belonged to his father, and very likely to his grandfather in the first place. They were made by Wm. Marples & Sons of Sheffield, a company begun around 1830, and for several generations thereafter one of the largest and most highly respected edge-tool makers in the world.
I have blogged some interesting details, showing how my own natural interest and aptitude for woodcarving may be innate, coming from ancestors who were in the coach-building trade in Lancashire a century and a half ago.
Here is the link to my blog: andrewsnotes.blogspot.ca/
Detail of log outbuilding. That's a normal-size door.You can see how large the logs were that the settlers had to hew and fit (notice corner detail ). Hard, time-consuming labor without power tools.