Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina nutcracker but the wood has been

but the wood has been hollowed out and whittled

This is a gorgeous art pottery plate with calla lily design produced by San Jose Pottery

Canada pottery

25 tall and just short of 3

Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina nutcracker but the wood has beenI've become completely enamored of old handcrafted tools just for the spectacular, typically wonderfully worn objects that they are, but I'm also trying to learn a bit about what they are and do along the way! This is an old wood I think perhaps beech and forged iron spokeshave, the incredible beauty of which photos do not do justice. Spokeshaves which apparently date to prehistoric times, when they were used to shape arrow shafts occupy a space