It was used to draw material away from the piece to be worked on. A caulking iron used when caulking deck seams. An iron tool used for extracting old oakum from seams. Nog: A wooden treenail or pin used in shipbuilding. Oker: Red chalk used by shipwrights to mark timber. Pitch Ladle: An iron ladle used to pour boiling tar into deck seams to seal and make them watertight. Racing Knife A shipwright's tool to mark or race the shape to be cut, often to mark or score the shape of a mould onto a piece of timber. An iron wedge used to open up seams before caulking. A wooden iron used to close and flatten the seams and stitching of sails. Late 19th century slide rule courtesy of Carle Bross Slide Rule: A shipwright's measuring tool. Wrung Staff: A shipwright's tool used in attaching the hull planking to the frame timbers. It consisted of a sturdy wooden rod, tapered at both ends. Was used together with ring bolts called wrung- or wrain-bolts, to force the planks closer to their shape and the ship's frame.As a noun, a tool similar to an axe, its blade is set at right angles to the shaft and curving inwards towards it, used for cutting or slicing away the surface of wood. As a verb, to adze means to carve or cut (at, out, etc.). In use since ancient times, the adze is for hewing and smoothing of larger workpieces. Normally considered a two-handed tool, but some smaller versions are suitable for use with one hand. (Among numerous images, Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary pictures a stone adze used by the Chalam Indians - who occupy the shores of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state - for hollowing out log canoes.) Over time, numerous variations in shapes and sizes have been created for different applications. The adze consists of a cutting edge fixed at right angles to its handle. Because it is a tool that cuts on the impact of it swing, the cutting bit on its head curves back toward the adze's handle. An axe-like tool, the adze can be used for scooping, cutting, or slicing away the surface of a workpiece, especially where Coves, or other types of concave-shaped contours, including Windsor chair seats, are needed. To help the user control the tool as it is swung, the adze's cutting edge is beveled on the side adjacent to the handle. The carpenter’s adze – sometimes called a foot adze, a house adze or a house carpenters' adze – is used for smoothing a large surface such as the timbers in a building's frame or the boards in a floor. Adzes are used by timber-framers, ship wrights (for wooden boats), carpenters, coopers (wooden-barrel makers), and others who engage in constructing larger projects than chairs. The “pin” – see diagram – is used for driving pegs or nails.
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