Adze
Shapes a beam's face with a sweeping inside cut.
The adze is the oldest tool in the shop — an axe turned sideways, for hewing a log into a beam or hollowing a seat. Every hewn timber you've ever admired was made with one.
The set
edge perpendicular to the handle swing a scooping inside cut, close to the feet hewing scores the round log into a square beam hollowing a curved adze for bowls and seats
The look
Adzed faces carry their own signature — a field of shallow scallops no machine can fake. It's the texture that says "made by hand."