The method of using the spokeshave is shown in Fig. 120. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:26:00 PM PST spokeshave says. From Wordnik.com. [A Question on Traveling Mattes] Reference
Allowance should be made for this and the surplus removed with a spokeshave. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
You would only need a spokeshave, and simple scratch stock, and couple of hand planes. From Wordnik.com. [The Cult] Reference
He worked with a large spokeshave in a wood so hard that it grated and rang like metal. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
At one point I had the bow by both ends and it probably looked as though I was using a spokeshave on the strings. From Wordnik.com. [drones] Reference
With a plane or spokeshave round these up until they taper from 1 in. diameter at bottom to little less than 0.5 in. at top. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Do not be afraid, but boldly pare this down level with the surrounding horn, for which purpose nothing is so good as a spokeshave. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Nonnus used his knife for everything from skinning game to large projects for which the locals would have chosen an axe, a billhook, or a spokeshave. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
Then, after the outline is drawn, the trough may be gouged, the outline cut with turning-saw, chisel, and spokeshave, and the edges molded with the gouge or chisel. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
When nearing this it will be as well to give up the use of the spokeshave, and use some instrument in a scraping manner; the side of a chisel (not the cutting edge) or a knife is best for this purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
After breakfast Magarth told him what he could not do without, and laid in a bundle an ax, a saw, a spokeshave, an auger, a hammer, nails, and would have added a grindstone had there been any way of carrying it. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825] Reference
The most important tool in carving a paddle is not a spokeshave (or equivalent) but a pencil. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
Eight pounds 'weight of shavings make an excellent bed, and I find I can cut them with a common spokeshave, in 3 1/2 hours, out of a log of deal. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
It is practicable to make an efficient spokeshave, by tying a large clasp-knife on a common stick which has been cut into a proper shape to receive it. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries] Reference
It du seem to me only like a vew months ago that I took spokeshave and chisel in hand to make thicky bwoat, and here you be, a'most a man in years, and quite. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer] 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
I looked around, but nothing was visible but some willow chips, and a half-formed cricket bat which Dicksee was making, by the help of a spokeshave he had borrowed at the wheelwright's, and which promised to be as clumsy a stump defender as ever was held in two hands. From Wordnik.com. [Burr Junior] Reference
He envied them the simple creative pleasure which they found in watching the boat grow under their hands in the empty loft which they had adopted as a workshop — more still he envied Brown the accuracy of eye he displayed, working with a spokeshave shaping the sculls without any of the apparatus of templates and models and stretched strings which Hornblower would have found necessary. From Wordnik.com. [Flying Colours]
My kids won’t even know what a spokeshave is, and won’t care. From Wordnik.com. [More Doom from the Doom- Master] Reference
I shall smooth it down with my knife if I can't borrow a spokeshave. ". From Wordnik.com. [Quicksilver The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel] Reference
I know, from people who have, that 'there's an old bloke with a spokeshave working away on a piece of ash, and it's based in some Nissen huts, and you just walk in, it's amazing, really, imagine that happening at a Toyota factory, and they push the cars around to work on them, it's so funny when you see it but it works, it's so traditional, and that John Harvey-Jones went there and they just told him to bugger off and they were right you know, they're completely British and they still make a profit, I'd love a Morgan, I wish I'd put my name down for one when I was younger, the waiting list is 250 years.'. From Wordnik.com. [BBC TopGear: Cars and Autos News] Reference
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