Adze
The cooper’s hand adze is a tool used in barrel making. This tool is shaped like an axe, with a curved blade—the cutting edge—oriented perpendicular to the handle. The other end of the tool—the head—is shaped like a hammer.
The adze is used to plane and curve the inside of the barrel. It can also be used to shape and hollow out any curved shape.
References
Date: Replica of a 16th-century object
Origin: North America
Owner: Canadian Museum of History.
Sources:
Pointe-à-Callière, cité d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal. (n.d.). Herminette [Adze]. ARCHÉOLAB.QUÉBEC. Retrieved from https://www.archeolab.quebec/recherche/objet/208953
Lucotte, J.-R., & Bénard, R. (1772). Tonnelier [Cooper]. In J. L. R. D’Alembert, & D. Diderot (Eds.), L’Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonnée des sciences, des arts et des métiers, Planches, vol. 10, Tonnelier pl. 4. http://enccre.academie-sciences.fr/encyclopedie/planche/v31-x6?p=v31-g117&vp=y&
