Adzes have a carved wooden handle lashed to a metal blade ... A crooked knife (see Figure 6) is a common composite carving tool. A crooked knife has a curved metal blade hafted onto a wooden handle.

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Tool handles were kept short as there was little space to work and also so that heavy headed tools like the adze and side-axe ... on the barrel - and various curved cutting tools were used.