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My mother in laws house has plaster over sheet rock,lath is the little wood strips behind the screen in old walls.this spell correct is out of control
You know, I'm not exactly sure what a lathing hatchet is used for. I always assumed it was for getting wood down to a manageable size, but I'm probably way off on this
I've heard the steel they used was top notch, so it should be an excellent tool if you can find a good use for it.
The main use of lathing hatchet went out with lath and plaster wall finishing,i.e. turned to pre-fab'd sheet-rock.
Lath(that itself was sawn),needed to be cut to size,sometimes trimmed,and nailed into place.
I the corners/by the ceiling the room was tight,thus the flush top edge on most,to nail close into the corner...
Seen it, and now know exactly what that is.Lath,about 1 1/2" wide,was nailed to the inside of the wall-studs in a close grid(a couple of inches apart),and served as a matrix for a thick layering of assorted finishing materials,most-plaster-based,occasionally further thickened with horsehair,and ending in a fine finish substrate that could then be painted.
It was a fine and complex trade,the end product(potentially)of an Utmost quality unequalled today,but Extremely laborious,and pretty toxic as far as the breathing of the particulates went...
In my building career i only got to demolish and to remove it,as i was a full generation too late for the actual technique,but even the demolition process was nasty...
"In tobacco we used lath to hang for drying in the sheds... unfortunately the pace and demand of that work, and my lack of interest at that time in anything other than girls and beer, I didnt take notice of many of the tools that we're already generations old and used to do the job I needed to do. Unfortunately."
That last "unfortunately" sounds like an after-thought...somehow i don't sense that real contriteness...
You're absolutely right...
Yep,many times here tools come up that we all may strain at recognising...More and more are now falling by the wayside,as the trade that they relate to does,for better or worse...
But for the most part we're probably lucky for not having done many of these things for a living,and we know it!
I've heard the steel they used was top notch, so it should be an excellent tool if you can find a good use for it.
As far as I know any time a tradesman's type hatchet has a hammer shaped poll especially a milled one, it will be hardened.I was thinking I may be able to use it as one of the few woodworking tools I have to help shape a handle when I have a go at making my own.
I believe this pole to be hardened, it has two corners that appear to be chipped.
I am old enough, and had a lot of experience with lath and plaster in renovating historic buildings. In my experience the earliest lath was hand split wood and nailed to the balloon framed studs or studs between timber frame, no metal, and a 3 coat plaster process applied directly over the wood lath; next was lath used as a base for expanded metal mesh that the plaster was applied to; and more recent is metal nailed directly to the studs and then a 3 coat plaster. The lath hatchet was used extensively in the first two techniques, It was used (maybe still is by some old school plasters) in the last style to even up studs to apply the metal lath. It has been a few years, but the last modern plaster work I saw was a sheet rock type backer board (made just for plaster) with just one finish coat applied to the backer board.
i took an art credit a while ago and they went over european architecture. i think the ancestor to lath? lathing? lathes? anyway, they called it waddle and daub.In my experience the earliest lath was hand split wood and nailed to the balloon framed studs or studs between timber frame, no metal, and a 3 coat plaster process applied directly over the wood lath.
I've renovated a few lath and plaster houses dating from the early 1900s. I'm imagining that one or two carpentry apprentices had full time jobs onsite doing nothing but carrying/sorting out wood strips, cutting and trimming them and banging them on (via mountains of fine nails!) across the studs and joists. The amount of time and effort that went into building old houses must have been impressive. A good prank for teaching/learning the properties of wood would have been via slipping in a bundle of hemlock or Doug fir lath and watching the pieces split or the nails fold over. The young lads would have quickly learned how to recognize that stuff!I am old enough, and had a lot of experience with lath and plaster in renovating historic buildings. In my experience the earliest lath was hand split wood and nailed to the balloon framed studs or studs between timber frame, no metal, and a 3 coat plaster process applied directly over the wood lath; next was lath used as a base for expanded metal mesh that the plaster was applied to; and more recent is metal nailed directly to the studs and then a 3 coat plaster. The lath hatchet was used extensively in the first two techniques, It was used (maybe still is by some old school plasters) in the last style to even up studs to apply the metal lath. It has been a few years, but the last modern plaster work I saw was a sheet rock type backer board (made just for plaster) with just one finish coat applied to the backer board.
Hmm, I hope they don't need a few years to re-spawn.JB - Are they starting to run out of axe heads cause you've got em all???
Well at least you got some nice slipjoints, hopefully they're not old JAPAN cheapies.One axe head! This is $160 at the flea brought home today..
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