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“Mocotaugan” Carving Knives
Oct 24, 2012
Woodworker: Jonathan Thornton
Inspired by the tool-making traditions of northeastern Native Americans and the people of the South Pacific, Thornton makes these crooked knife tools, called “mocotaugan,” and uses them for carving. The handles, finished with wipe-on polyurethane, are (from left) pear, apple, degame, and lilac. To make the fiddlehead-fern knife (left in photo), Thornton employed an Iroquois technique, casting a pewter inlay to hold the blade in the handle.
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