With heartwoods, you must shave off the bark and white sapwood with a drawknife to reach the darker, denser wood beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps] Reference

Reduce the stave to your outline with a drawknife, rasp, and file (making sure not to cut into the growth ring atop the back of the bow).    From Wordnik.com.  [Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps] Reference

DRYING AND SHAPING Pare the green stave with a hatchet and a drawknife so that it's slightly larger than the shape of your intended design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps] Reference

A carving horse where the grandfather had been when they came into the yard held a split billet of ash he had been working with a drawknife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Temple of the Winds]

Secure the stave in a vise and shave off the bark and sapwood with a drawknife to expose one unbroken summer growth ring along the back (bark side; photo B).    From Wordnik.com.  [Make a Homemade (and Deadly) Bow in Five Easy Steps] Reference

These are the poems of a man with eyes like a drawknife, hands like a pickpocket's hands, woven of water and logic and hunger, with no strand of love in them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst] Reference

Other items found were a scissors-shaped candle snuffer used to trim wick, parts of a flintlock pistol, flatware, a coat button, an ornamental andiron, and a drawknife that may be part of a set of cooper's tools listed in a 1732 inventory of the Madisons 'property.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boyhood Home] Reference

Then he works a hatchet around the roughed pine wood and carves it with a drawknife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Mechanix] Reference

The curve of the legs can be cut with a bracket saw or a drawknife, care being taken to get the edges square and smooth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2] Reference

It seemed a big jump from this to making something with legs, and yet by the end of the programme they were all three capable of using a drawknife (a sort of safety-free spokeshave) without disembowelling themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

1703: ONLY THE PRINCIPAL TOOLS used in carpentry are listed by Moxon: the axe (A), adz (B), socket chisel (C), ripping chisel (D), drawknife (E), hookpin (F), bevel (G), plumb line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woodworking Tools 1600-1900] Reference