Shavings Collection

House carpenter planing a board on a bench. His workshop contains carpentry tools such as saws, hammer, chisel, as well as finished products such as a door, rafters, ladder, etc

CARPENTER / 1870
A carpenter planes a piece of wood creating lots of wood shavings

Native Carpenters - India - using rules, planes and chisels. Date: circa 1903

Carpenter at work. circa 1800

Cartoon - The True Kings Bench - a carpenter. early 19th century

Gypsy Basket Makers
Gypsy Bohemian basket makers, with baskets made of wood shavings (or rushes?) in a variety of shapes and sizes

A lathe operator at work
A metalworker checks the settings on a large industrial lathe. A lathe is a machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling

Cheery Families - Mr Clamp the Carpenter. 1890s

Wood Turning, Tunisia
A carpenter turns wood supported using his feet

Science / Rumford / Munich
Count Rumford inspects the cannon production at the military arsenal in Munich. Rumford was interested in the new processes of metallic milling

The Carpenter 1827
A carpenter planing the edge of a board; a Turkey stone for sharpening his tools is in his work box and a newly made door and roof rafters behind him

A Chiltern Carpenter
A Chiltern woodworker shaves a piece of wood, probably a chair or table leg

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