scraper
Botwood Heritage Park and Museums
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| Nom de l'objet : | scraper |
|---|---|
| Catégorie de l'objet : | Tools and Equipment |
| Sous-catégorie de l'objet : | Construction |
| Groupe de l'objet : | Shipbuilding |
| Matériaux : | metal wood |
| Numéro d'accession : | 97-094 |
| Province d'utilisation : | Newfoundland & Labrador |
| Pays d'utilisation : | Canada |
| Description : | It consists of a long, brown, painted wooden handle attached to tool piece with an iron nail. The tool piece is an equilateral triangle attached perpendicular to the handle. |
| Commentaires : | Caulking was a practice first used on wooden ships. The process of caulking on wooden ships consisted of forcing fibrous materials, such as cotton, soaked in pine tar. Caulking was used to seal cracks in the timbers during construction of the ship. After the fibrous material was secure, it was sealed in with pitch in a process known as 'pitch paying'. This scraper would have been used to remove the excess pitch. |
| Fonctions : | This object was used to scrape excess caulking off ships |
| Longueur : | 44 |
| Largeur : | 11 |
| Unité de mesure linéaire : | cm |
| Établissement : | Botwood Heritage Park and Museums |
| Ville de l'établissement : | Botwood |
| Province de l'établissement : | Newfoundland Labrador |