Spokeshave, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:

1950.1534.1

Community:

New York, Mount Lebanon

Description

A sort of shave with a beech body, a cast steel iron, iron thumbscrews and wingnuts, and leather washers. At the left end of the throat, there is a dovetail shaped slot, perhaps to house some sort of fence or guide, no longer extant.

New York Mount Lebanon Church Family

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