spokeshave

IPA: spˈoʊkʃˈeɪv

A hand tool, mainly for woodworking, used to shape and smooth rods and shafts; often used in carving wheel spokes, chair legs, or arrows.

Examples of "spokeshave" in Sentences

A spokeshave is a tool originally developed for this purpose.
Final work can be done by spokeshave, sanding block or lathe.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:26:00 PM PST spokeshave says...
The next steps include application of a spokeshave, rasp and scraper.
You would only need a spokeshave, and simple scratch stock, and couple of hand planes.
He worked with a large spokeshave in a wood so hard that it grated and rang like metal.
Final shaping is done with a spokeshave (3), if available, and a wood rasp (see page 6).
At one point I had the bow by both ends and it probably looked as though I was using a spokeshave on the strings.
Nonnus used his knife for everything from skinning game to large projects for which the locals would have chosen an axe, a billhook, or a spokeshave.
He leaves the steamed components hanging up for a year to dry and season thoroughly, turns the legs on his lathe, hollows out the seats with an adze and a spokeshave, then assembles the chairs.
Litten's carpenter friend Max John Hollingworth, looked up from his spokeshave with perhaps one too many knowing political apercus; and Litten's "weary" catalogue of his father's objections to the new Weimar republic – "To him, it's all atonal music, flat roofs, Bauhaus chairs, the rumba, Otto Dix, negro jazz, Jewish self-assertion" – could have done with the lumps taken out of it.