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Tools and Woodworking

Basket splint gauge, ca. 1900

Basket splint gauge, ca. 1900

Item 23465 info
Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine

Fancy basket makers keep a variety of gauges to divide strips of ash into uniform widths for weavers (horizontal splints) and standards (vertical splints).