Posted By: Bob Smith
Spelling for "bise a gout" - 08/20/01 11:55 AM
I'm sorry about offending any francophiles out there, but that's the best appoximation I can come with. Can anyone help with the actual spelling? And possibly point me toward a source...
If my spelling is so atrocious that no one knows to what I'm referring, its a tool about three feet long with a wide chisel on one end and a mortising chisel on the other. Midway along its length is a handle.
On an unrelated note, which receives the appostrophe: the possessive of "it" or the contraction of "it is"?
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Spelling for "bise a gout" - 08/20/01 12:37 PM
The contraction of "it is" is it's. You could always run your posts or messages through a word processing program and use its spell checker feature to correct your spelling and grammar. Good luck, Jim.
[This message has been edited by J Rogers (edited 08-20-2001).]
Posted By: Scott McClure
Re: Spelling for "bise a gout" - 08/21/01 05:31 AM
Bob, I can't spell it either but you might try Barr Tools in McCall, Idaho. I'm pretty sure he's made at least one that went at a conference auction.
Posted By: Ken Hume
Re: Spelling for "bise a gout" - 08/21/01 09:47 PM
The spelling is bisaigue.
Mine is 4 feet long with a 2 1/2" paring blade on one end and 5/8 mortice chisel on the other.
Ken Hume
Posted By: Will Truax
Re: Spelling for "bise a gout" - 08/22/01 12:51 AM
Bob, how many do you need ? or is your cordura pampered example a DEW tool and not a BD tool ? having been able to wield one (yours) again has definitly moved it to the tip top of my short list, if I find a source will let you know. But until then it's either have one made ( by Barr or elsewhere )or find someone with a the ability to source continental antiques.
Yours and yours will be home soon.
Posted By: Anonymous
Re: Spelling for "bise a gout" - 08/23/01 03:27 PM
Denis Buet, a member of this guild (or was last time I visited him) brought several of these tools back from France with him.
I don't know whether he'd part with one or not.
Denis lives in Eastern WA, 509-382-2005
Good luck, David Lowry