Drawknife

Object Name:

Drawknife

Object ID:

1979.070.118

Description:

Drawknife. Wood, wrought iron, and steel. Horizontal clearance between shaft ends: 15.6". Cutting blade width: 9". Depth front to back: 0.84" of cutting blade. Thickness of blade at center: 0.2". Arch of blade: 1.8". Cutting blade edge, straight with upward curve to it. Bottom surface of blade relatively flat. Top surface, tapered from front to back to create cutting edge. Front edge of blade slightly rounded. In some areas on bottom surface, line seen of area where wrought iron and steel welded together. In upright position, blade curves upwards. At either end, where blade attached to shaft, shaft curves upward. Shaft almost square in cross section with chamfered edges. It turns 90 degrees at ends to form long, tapered tang. Tang exposed on end where handle missing. Present handle is long, cylindrical, tapers to shallow area then expands slightly to rounded corner, which then leads to slightly tapered short section. At back of handle, it tapers quickly to nicely rounded end. Back of handle appears to be made from three different types of wood. From large part of handle is a narrow dark band. Then smaller light band. Next to that, another dark band where end of handle turns over. In center of that is another piece of wood in it with hole where tang comes out and is bent over.

Material:

Wood
Metal
Iron
Steel

Dimensions:

H-2.3 W-16.8 L-6.3 inches Weight-15.1 oz

Credit Line:

Gift of George F. Sawyer