The Shaper
May 19, 2020
3 minutes
Better than sex. That’s what someone said to me on trying out a spokeshave for the first time. Now I don’t know about you, I do like a good spokeshaving, but for me it’s not that good. However the point here, is that spokeshaves are both practical and a pleasure to use.
A spokeshave is virtually a chisel held in a small metal guide with handles. As the name suggests they derive from 16th century wheelwrights using them for forming wheel spokes. In archaeology though, a
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