{"id":246,"date":"2015-04-22T19:04:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.baryonyxknife.com\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2025-05-30T02:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T02:12:32","slug":"manufacturing-scythe-snaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Scythe Snaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A fascinating ca. 1911 account of the manufacture of wooden <a href=\"https:\/\/byxco.com\/collections\/snaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scythe snaths<\/a> at the Fenn Manufacturing Co. of Charlotte, MI. &nbsp; Interestingly, the wood used for the grips of their <a href=\"https:\/\/byxco.com\/collections\/scythe-parts-pieces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nibs<\/a> are described as being made from maple, while birch was the most commonly used wood for the task.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage11-749x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SnathMakingArticlePage1\" class=\"wp-image-253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage11-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage11-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage11.jpg 845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage2-739x1024.jpg\" alt=\"SnathMakingArticlePage2\" class=\"wp-image-248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage2-739x1024.jpg 739w, https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage2-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/SnathMakingArticlePage2.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Young, C. (1911). Manufacturing Scythe Snaths. In <i>The Wood-Worker<\/i> (Vol. 30, pp. 30-31). S. H. Smith Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating ca. 1911 account of the manufacture of wooden scythe snaths at the Fenn Manufacturing Co. of Charlotte, MI. &nbsp; Interestingly, the wood used for the grips of their nibs are described as being made from maple, while birch was the most commonly used wood for the task. Young, C. (1911). Manufacturing Scythe Snaths. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/?p=246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manufacturing Scythe Snaths<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,23,24,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manual-mowing","category-scythes","category-period-documents","category-history","category-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byxcoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}