What is the difference between a wooden spokeshave and a metal spokeshave?
Wooden spokeshaves, or more correctly termed low angle spokeshaves, appeared on the tool time-line ahead of cast metal spokeshaves by at least a century and possibly several. Metal spokeshaves appeared in the mid-1800s following the advent of the cast metal bench plane. Both may appear the same outwardly because of the centrally located blade flanked by handles, but the real difference is operational and in how their blades are set up.
