[stan_rogers]

You're hanging out with the wrong crowd if you haven't heard spokeshave (it's not generally hyphenated anymore). It's still a commonly-used woodworking tool - just another in the family of planes, really - as is its "roughing" kin, the drawknife. When I were a lad, my father once remarked that a spokeshave seemed to be a bit of a modern contraption for Roy Underhill to be using on a particular project; I had to remind him that wooden spokes were just a little bit out of date and that the class of tools probably had a more meaningful name once upon a time.

[neogodless]

I have also not seen "spoke-shave" in modern English texts. I'm not sure how that relates to the crowds I run with. I'm an amateur wood-worker but I prefer building to finishing so I don't do much planing. Likely my neighbor and a close friend knows what that tool is, but it never came up in conversation.

So that is to say that your comment is informative, but it could do without the "wrong crowd" comment. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you meant it in jest!

[dbcurtis]

We will forgive you if you can turn a hook on a scraper :)