drawknives

Two-handled wood shavers

Drawknives are woodworking tools with a blade between two handles, pulled toward the user to shave wood.

The plural of drawknife, they're used for rough shaping—stripping bark, chamfering edges, or carving chair legs and tool handles.

Also spelled draw knives.

woodworking

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Tool for curving wood

beveling · two-handled · pulling · greenwood · chairmaking · cooperage · timber framing · rounding · shaping · workbench

crafts

canoe building

Crafting narrow paddled vessels

walking sticks · wooden spoons · primitive skills · bushcraft · artisan · handmade · traditional craft

anatomy

handles

Grasping parts or manages

spine · heel · toe · grind · honing · sharpening · whetstone · stropping · high carbon steel · temper

Opposites
tool motion direction

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Two-handled wood shavers

chisels · gouges

cutting mechanism

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Rough abrasive tools

mallets · adzes

tool power source

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Planes for straightening edges

routers · angle grinders

Family

drawknife, drawshave

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G