[Regia-NA] Whetstones
Douglas Sunlin
list-regia-na@lig.net
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:49:17 -0700
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<DIV></DIV>>I believe that anyone who needed to sharpen a tool edge needed a whetstone of some sort, otherwise they just couldn't have done the work. Even in the thirties in Austria, each man with a scythe had to have a whetstone to help cut the hay.
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<P>For a scythe, a workman often had a strickle, which is a short wooden dowel with longitudinal grooves. These were filled with grease and fine sand. The strickle was used to keep the scythe blade keen. </P></div><br clear=all><hr>Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. <a href='http://g.msn.com/1HM1ENUS/c157??PI=44364'>Click Here</a><br></html>