Name this wood cutting tool

the-accumulator

the-accumulator

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Three minutes and forty-three seconds into the YouTube video entitled "The Bowl Gathering 2019" there is a woman trimming a chunk of wood with a tool that is basically a very large, stout knife with the top hinged to a stump. I have seen similar devices for chopping vegetables but not for wood. Is anyone familiar with this tool? What's it called? T-A
 
I haven't watched the video but I know what you're talking about. I don't know what they're called.
 
And I have not seen the video. We used to call what you described a Block Knife. I have also heard it called a Stock Knife and a Bench Knife. For a look and more information see "Dictionary of Woodworking Tools" by R.A. Salaman, page 250. I bet you can see one being used, as they were, in videos of wooden clog makers and their tools. I have had one I bought at a E.A.I.A. tool auction 35 yrs ago. It is a antique, from Europe, and very useful.
 
When you want to get your hands on one of these, (paalmes/stock knife and so on and so on...) for using be aware that there are left hand and right hand versions with various more or less specialized cutting configurations. Number one use, I'm convinced of it, is for making wooden shoes and clogs, (also look up Jeremy Atkinson, clog maker of England), but I came across a shingle maker in France once using one for his work too at a stump though typically they are anchored to a simple bench with a heavy staple.
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Here you can see my klompenmaker, Mr Getkate, demonstrating the expert use in his back yard that makes him Dutch national champion 3 years in a row now.
https://www.tubantia.nl/wierden/het...de-beste-klompenmaker-van-nederland~a8b415f4/
 
the-accumulator said:
With just this one word, thanks to neo71665. I have been able to view several YouTube videos showing this tool in use. In all my travels. I've never seen a paroir for sale. Now I have something new to look for when I go out "junking"! Thank you all for you help. T-A
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No real thanks needed, I'm just a woodworking and machinist geek that happened to watch something on a streaming service in the last few weeks. I just remembered enough of the spelling I got lucky on a google search. Another week I would have been clueless.
 
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