the making of a golok...

[Lee]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

Neither of them could hold a hammer correctly --- the results were predictable.

A close friend of 80 years, now retired, who worked for decades as a finish carpenter, has observed to me that up through his professional 'generation,' all of the tools in a Roman or Viking tool hoard would be clearly recognizable and understood to himself and colleagues, but, as you just observed, many have become 'alien' to modern young carpenters.