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Re: Puncheon Floors -- again
From:
Mary Krugman <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
BP - "CAUTION: Learning Lurkers Hanging"
Date:
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 10:22:29 EST
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In a message dated 11/11/1999 9:53:16 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> The carpenter makes puncheons by riving boards about two inches
>  thick and six to ten inches wide from a log, using a froe and a mallet.
>  Smoothing is done with a foot adze, working cross-grain after the floor is
>  installed.  A cruder type of puncheon is made by splitting sapling logs in
> half,
>  leaving the bark intact.

Is this the "punching" that relates to "puncheon"? Is the splitting (don't
know what a "froe" is....) the act that relates it to the other root words?

-- Needs to watch traditional woodcraft in action

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