adze

Axes created a more symmetrical, oval fracture than the adze, for example.

“I have only a saw, hammer, chisel, and adze, but we are managing alright,” he reported in his diary.

It’s as if she’s been carved like an archetypal totem, but with matte and glossy house paint, charcoal and oil paint on canvas rather than with a chisel or an adze from stone or wood.

At one site he uncovered ample evidence of prehistoric carpentry — woodworking tools and a massive pine plank, roughly 11,300 years old, that he believes had been smoothed with an adze.

Holm showed Jackson, using his own adze that he had made from yew wood, with a thin handle that flexed.