Fort Boonesborough Woodworker
The woodworker at a frontier fort used a variety of tools and carpentry and carving techniques to make many of the tools and pieces of furniture settlers needed for survival. Carpentry tools included axes, saws, shave horses, chisels, drawknives, and froes. The woodworker could make chairs, beds, cabinets, chests, plows, tool handles, gunstocks, and more.
In these photos, the woodworker uses a drawknife to plane a wooden leg for a stool. He is holding the piece of wood in a foot-operated vise called a shave horse.
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