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This collection of woodcraft tools is dedicated to the unnamed African Americans who built these houses.

– Who built the houses?
– "Mad Ax"
– Full-dovetailed cornering
– Adz with proper handle
– Tight fitting timbers
– Pit saw
– Saw
– Full-dovetailed corners
– Wedge
– Froe
– Glut
– Shingle making
– Hewing
– Drawknife
– Scoring a log
– Strap and pintle hinges
– Broadax
– Pintle
– Hewing
– Hinge on Ms. Catherine’s door
– Adz

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Copyright Amelia Wallace Vernon. All rights reserved, 1998. Revised, 2007.