Wood
Ash timber
Ash timber → Ash planks → Bellows
Picture to come.
Wood of the ash, a common native tree that grows fast and responds well to coppicing. Its long, straight grain makes it tough and springy, absorbing shocks without breaking, so it was used for tool handles, spear shafts, cart frames and wheel rims. It rots quickly when exposed to damp, so it was not used for main building frames.
Caveats (confidence: high)
Rim use is from later traditional practice; details of medieval use are general knowledge.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
Made by
- Fell timber
Used to make
- Saw ash planks
- Hew a common beam
- Bole-smelt lead
- Hew a rough beam with stone tools
- Rive planks with wedge and hammer
- Make a stone hammer
- Forge an axe
- Forge a pick
- Forge a pit saw
- Forge an iron hammer
- Forge a knife
- Forge a sickle
- Forge shears
- Forge a spear
- Make a wooden spade
- Make a pack saddle
- Make a yoke
- Forge an awl
- Forge a drawknife
- Forge an adze
- Forge a chisel
- Forge a scythe
- Forge a billhook
- Whittle a spindle
- Split ash bow staves
- Shave arrow shafts
- Shave ash spokes
- Cut felloes
- Cut an ash cart frame
- Lash up crude bellows
- Bole-smelt lead from dressed ore
Used to build
- Charcoal clamp
- Sawpit
- Hewing floor
- Forge
- Loom
- Mason's yard
- Bare tanning pit