spokeshave
Sign in to saveA spokeshave is a hand tool used to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making cart wheel spokes, chair legs, paddles, bows, and arrows. The tool consists of a blade fixed into the body of the tool, which has a handle for each hand. Historically, a spokeshave was made with a wooden body and metal cutting blade. With industrialization metal bodies displaced wood in mass-produced tools. Being a small tool, a spokeshave is not suited to working large surfaces.
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Within Vinony's link graph, spokeshave is referenced by 407 other articles, and connects out to plane, wheelwright and International Standard Book Number.
It sits within the topics Planes and Woodworking hand tools.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Tool.image
- Spokeshaves standard and rounded.jpg
- Tool.caption
- Metal-handled spokeshaves, one with a flat sole and one with a rounded sole
- Tool.image2
- Bookbinders_spokeshave.jpg
- Tool.caption2
- Wooden spokeshave
- Tool.classification
- Woodworking hand tool
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- plane
- Has part
- handle
- Image
- Bookbinders spokeshave.jpg
- Has use
- woodworking
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- Commons category
- Spokeshaves
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History
- Types
- Uses
- See also
- Further reading
- References
A spokeshave is a hand tool used to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making cart wheel spokes, chair legs, paddles, bows, and arrows. The tool consists of a blade fixed into the body of the tool, which has a handle for each hand. Historically, a spokeshave was made with a wooden body and metal cutting blade. With industrialization metal bodies displaced wood in mass-produced tools. Being a small tool, a spokeshave is not suited to working large surfaces.
== History == thumb|left|Spokeshave components
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