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1. In what motion picture, based on a children's book by Ian Fleming (creator of James Bond), does British comedian Benny Hill appear with a toymaker's wood shaving horse?
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2. A partially hewn timber is referred to as being: half-shaped, half hacked, or half-adzed?
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3. A cooper is a woodworker who makes chicken houses, Windsor chairs, or firkins and kilderkins?
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4. True or false? The pilgrims almost froze to death in their log cabins during their first winter at Plymouth in 1620.
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5. What is the favored wood for the heads of golf clubs?
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6. What wood were most old wooden planes made from? Ash, cherry or beech?
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7. The blade in a common woodworking jack plane usually seated at an angle of 25, 35 or 45 degrees?
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8. Name some other kinds of wright other than the Woodwright.
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9. Roy Underhill has already worn out how many bodies? Is it 2, 3 or 6?
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