My dad’s adze is more for carving. It’s still heavy and rugged, but my grandfather’s adze is a big, hefty tool, like the kind you’d imagine Vikings used. It knocks out big chunks of wood ...
It’s a curved drawknife, and I think they used it for carving benches or the grooves in chairs. He got it from his father, so I think it’s from the early 1800s, if not the early 1900s,” Billy Sr. said ...