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| 10 | Race knife (timber scribe) | 100400T18 | photo | photo | MHC-F |
| Cast steel and wood, 6 1/2" long, unsigned. |
| This is a typical lumbermans' tool for marking and identifying the trees cut by loggers before they would be floated down to the sawmills. It |
| has a leather pouch for storage. |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution | Logging Tools |
| 11 | Mast shave | 51100T2 | photo | photo | MHC-F |
| Malleable iron, forged steel and wood, 24" long, 14" blade, 4 1/2" handles, signed "L & I J WHITE" "BUFFALO, NY" "1837" inside an oval |
| and also stamped "14". |
| White made adzes, chisels, and drawknives, 1837f.; a most prolific maker of coopers' jiggers, drawknives, and other edge tools (Nelson |
| 1999). Many an L. White tool has been recycled to Maine woodworkers in the last 30 years by the Liberty Tool Co. |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution | Shipwrights', Sailmakers', and Mariners' |
| | Tools |
| 12 | Early ships' caulking tools (set) | TCX1001 | photo | photo | MHC-K |
| Puddled or German steel and wood, signed "E. A. DEXTER". |
| The set includes 13 caulking irons, a caulking mallet inventoried separately (second mallet has been stolen,) a carrying case and folding |
| stool. It was last used to repair the U.S.S. Constitution. The maker is not listed in DATM (Nelson 1999). The demise of the cod fishery due to |
| the withdrawal of government subsidies, the spread of railroads after the Civil War, and the depletion of forest resources all played a role in |
| the decline of shipbuilding in the ports south and east of Liberty and Montville (Thomaston, Warren, Boothbay, Waldoboro, and Wiscasset.) In |
| the boomtown years of Liberty and Montville, a number of ships' caulkers lived in this area and would have used tools similar to these as |
| itinerant caulkers visiting area shipyards as needed. |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution | Shipwrights', Sailmakers', and Mariners' |
| | Tools |
| 13 | Leveling plane (sun plane) | 100400T6 | photo | MHC-K |
| Wood, cast steel blades, 14" long, 3" wide, 2" wide blade, signed with an obscure signature on the blade, probably WHITE 1837. |
| This is a typical coopers' tool used for barrel-making, it is also called a topping plane. Sun planes are curved in shape. A sun plane is used |
| for leveling the ends of staves after they have been beveled with a coopers' adz. The narrow ledge created by the sun plane serves to hold first |
| the chiv and later the croze to cut the groves on the inside of the staves to hold the cask heads. |
| Historic Maritime III (1800-1840): Boomtown Years & the Dawn of the Industrial Revolution | Coopers' Tools |
| 14 | Froe | 100400T11 | photo | MH |
| Forged iron or steel and wood, 17 1/4" long, unsigned. |
| This is an extra heavy duty specimen for cutting shakes. |
| Historic Maritime II (1720-1800): The Second Colonial Dominion & the Early Republic | Woodworking: Edge Tools |
| 15 | Clapboard slick | 21201T3 | bio | photo | MH |
| Forged iron and steel, 29 3/4" long including a 7" handle, 2 3/16" wide blade, signed "_UGHAN & PARDO_ UNION WARRANTEED". |
| This is made by Vaughan & Pardoe of Union, Maine. Working dates for this company are 1844-1868. It is a gift to The Davistown Museum |
| from Rick Floyd of Newport, ME. |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution | Woodworking: Edge Tools Made in Maine |
| 16 | Traveler | TBE3000 | photo | MH |
| Forged iron, 13" long, 5 1/4" diameter wheel, unsigned. |
| Historic Maritime II (1720-1800): The Second Colonial Dominion & the Early Republic | Measuring Tools |
| 17 | Peen adz | 72801T4 | photo | MH |
| Forged iron, cast steel, wood, 10 1/2" long, 4 1/4" wide blade, 31 1/4" handle, signed "Boston Arnold". |
| No Arnold of Boston is listed in DATM (Nelson 1999). Who was this manufacturer of edge tools? |
| Historic Maritime IV (1840-1865): The Early Industrial Revolution | Woodworking: Edge Tools - American |
| | Made Cast Steel |
| 18 | Peel | 101400T7 | photo | TT-wall |
| Forged iron, 30 1/4" long, 6 1/2" peel, unsigned. |
| It is used for removing bread from an oven. |
| Historic Maritime II (1720-1800): The Second Colonial Dominion & the Early Republic | Domestic Utensils |
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