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Esoteric Implements of Artisan Craft
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Handle style hinting sharp tenon work in joinery
- 3. Medieval wooden plate carver’s rustic tool
- 5. Rare bone carving tool, pointed like a spearhead
- 6. Intricate cuts demand this narrow blade’s name
- 10. Fine sewing awl, piercing leather or heavy textiles
- 11. Woodworker’s shoulder cut, a lap in frame making
- 13. Tool for setting stitches in bookbinding or leather
- 14. Dense graphite sticks used by draftsmen, not a lead ore
- 18. Scooping chisel carving curved channels in wood
Down
- 2. Metal shaping from behind, creating raised designs
- 4. Shaping wood with a blade held like a drive-shoe
- 7. Decorative motif often traced with stylus or punch
- 8. Feathers aligned precisely, aiding the arrow’s flight
- 9. Flowering-type gouge, ideal for rounded carving
- 12. Medieval vet’s cauterizing rod, not an arachnid
- 15. Printmaker’s roller to spread ink with even pressure
- 16. Engraver’s bite on metal, a cold chisel’s kin
- 17. Sealing joins in ceramics or woodworking with clay slips
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