Adze
The adze is a Outil of work of the Bois. It is a kind of Hache to the edge perpendicular to the handle, which is used for roughing of the carved works, with the raising of the face higher of the beam S posed on the ground, the shaping of bent forms and digging. In order to have a better ergonomics, the handle can be curved.
This tool was very much used by the Charpentier S of marine wood and carpenter of mature standing timber (frames of the houses). If a beginner only uses it to trim, an experienced carpenter can go until the completion. Some use it even like a plane of completion.
There are many models, of varied size and forms. The wet coopers have curved adzes, with very short handles, to dig the Douves barrel X.
The essette is a kind of adze with less broad blade and short handle (30 cm).
History
The origin of this tool is very old. He would have been invented in Mésopotamie.Contrary to the manufacturers of antiquity, the Viking S did not know the adze. They worked the boards of their drakkars to the axe.
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