Wood Products & Traditional Crafts (5)
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wpe9E.jpg (19151 bytes) A traditional shaving horse (left). This is a design which has been used for centuries, if not millennia. It would often be used to produce items in woodland clearings.
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wpe9E.jpg (19179 bytes) A traditional pole lathe (left), a machine for turning wood. It is operated by a wooden treadle. The design is possibly 3000 years old.
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wpe9D.jpg (14087 bytes) The lathe revolves while the operator guides a sharp metal tool such as a chisel along the object and in so doing creates the desired finished shape.

Note that these tools for shaping and working wood, are themselves made of wood.

 

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Dartington
Devon
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