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Esoteric Implements of Vintage Craftsmanship is a hard crossword puzzle with 18 clues covering . Play it online for free below, or create your own crossword with our free crossword maker.
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Esoteric Implements of Vintage Craftsmanship
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Shaving curves from wooden spokes, not hair
- 2. Pulled blade for shaving wood, opposite of pushing
- 3. Simple splitter that multiplies force by shape
- 5. Honing a wooden limb with this crank-powered cutting contender
- 7. Splitter of timber, wielding leverage rather than sharpness
- 9. Tunneler of soil, predecessor to mechanized agriculture
- 12. Ancient divider tool, architect’s precision companion
- 14. Gatherer of leaves and coals, sometimes teeth but no bite
- 16. SQUARE Tool for testing right angles, trust but verify shapes
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- 4. Ancient woodshaping cousin of the axe, but with a perpendicular blade
- 6. Sealer’s old chisel, beating cotton into ship seams
- 8. Thin slicing tool used in fish preparation, but in antique context also fine woodworking
- 10. A carpenter’s axe designed for hewing logs flat
- 11. Refiner of surfaces, removing layers with fine abrasion
- 13. Spiral drill predating modern bits
- 15. Grinder’s stone tool, mixing pigments or powders with circular strokes
- 17. Craftsman’s measurer, marking precise depths and thicknesses
- 18. Harnessing pole for draft animals, an old woodworking metaphor
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