Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina curvy the shape: I love everything

the shape: I love everything about these Japanese fish plates

painted in a combination of oil and acrylic by Kansas City artist Susi Lulaki on a shingle salvaged from an old house being torn down in Chase County

so I cleared them out

but I love it even more knowing its origins and that its brown body

other than that I think it has a great silhouette and an interesting surface

Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina curvy the shape: I love everythingI've become completely enamored of old handcrafted tools just for the spectacular, typically wonderfully worn objects that they are, but I'm also trying to learn a bit about what they are and do along the way! This is an old wood I think perhaps beech and forged iron spokeshave, the incredible beauty of which photos do not do justice. Spokeshaves which apparently date to prehistoric times, when they were used to shape arrow shafts occupy a space