Photo courtesy National Park Service.
Tools Unearthed At Jamestown Which Were Used by Coopers, Carpenters, And Furniture Makers
Shown are gouges, augers, chisels, bits and hammers; an adze, hewing-axe, punch, race-knife, scriber, and wedge. All were hand wrought during the seventeenth century.
The Box-Maker and Vehicles
The Box-Maker, and the Turner.
The Box-Maker 1, smootheth hewen-Boards 2, with a Plain 3, upon a Work-board 4, he maketh them very smooth with a little plain 5, he boareth them thorow with an Augre 6, carveth them with a Knife 7, fasteneth them together with Glew, and Cramp-Irons 8, and maketh Tables 9, Boards 10, Chests 11, &c. The Turner 12, sitting over the treddle 13, turneth with a throw 14, upon a Turners-bench 15, Bowls 16, Tops 17, Puppets 18, and such like Turners work.
Courtesy Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C.
The Box Maker And Turner