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Need Someone Who Can Identify This Antique Tool
May 21, 2013 17:15:12 #
OK I found this old hand tool in a box of old knives I bought from and Estate Sale.
This belonged to the family's grandfather who hand made hunting knives for a hobby. The family could not tell me what this tool was used for.
It is 9" long. and has two brackets on each end. Any idea's.
This belonged to the family's grandfather who hand made hunting knives for a hobby. The family could not tell me what this tool was used for.
It is 9" long. and has two brackets on each end. Any idea's.
May 21, 2013 17:18:41 #
Could it be a tool used to tighten skate laces. Used to hav a tool like it but all metal. Just a thought.
J
J
May 21, 2013 17:36:27 #
Lorima wrote:
OK I found this old hand tool in a box of old knives I bought from and Estate Sale.
This belonged to the family's grandfather who hand made hunting knives for a hobby. The family could not tell me what this tool was used for.
It is 9" long. and has two brackets on each end. Any idea's.
This belonged to the family's grandfather who hand made hunting knives for a hobby. The family could not tell me what this tool was used for.
It is 9" long. and has two brackets on each end. Any idea's.
It looks like an old barbeque grill, wire brush handle. I have seen something like it before where the wire brush is replacable and the handle is the keeper. :?: :| :?
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May 21, 2013 18:45:52 #
May 21, 2013 19:30:48 #
DBpics wrote:
It looks like an old barbeque grill, wire brush handle. I have seen something like it before where the wire brush is replacable and the handle is the keeper. :?: :| :?
My husband's guess was it might be a handle for a file. You would be able to attach a different file depending on what you were doing.
May 21, 2013 20:23:24 #
Fleckjohn65 wrote:
Could it be a tool used to tighten skate laces. Used to hav a tool like it but all metal. Just a thought.
J
J
thanks it has the patent date of 1904 on. I guess they had skates back then.
May 21, 2013 20:25:35 #
DBpics wrote:
It looks like an old barbeque grill, wire brush handle. I have seen something like it before where the wire brush is replacable and the handle is the keeper. :?: :| :?
Thanks it does have a patent date of 1904 on it. Would they have used a wire brush back then?
May 21, 2013 20:26:52 #
May 21, 2013 20:30:40 #
Country's Mama wrote:
My husband's guess was it might be a handle for a file. You would be able to attach a different file depending on what you were doing.
Thanks, I bet that's what it is. It has a patent date of 1904. Thanks again Lori
May 21, 2013 20:47:37 #
May 21, 2013 21:31:24 #
Lorima wrote:
Thanks, I bet that's what it is. It has a patent date of 1904. Thanks again Lori
It will be interesting to see if any one knows for sure.
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May 21, 2013 22:11:17 #
Lorima wrote:
OK I found this old hand tool in a box of old knives I bought from and Estate Sale.
This belonged to the family's grandfather who hand made hunting knives for a hobby. The family could not tell me what this tool was used for.
It is 9" long. and has two brackets on each end. Any idea's.
This belonged to the family's grandfather who hand made hunting knives for a hobby. The family could not tell me what this tool was used for.
It is 9" long. and has two brackets on each end. Any idea's.
I think Country's Mama's husband came close; but, not quite on the money. Like the family's grandfather, I too have been involved in knife making and collecting. I have not seen one of these in a very long time, and if it has specific name I don't recall. You would put sharpening stones into this handle (tighten them down), and use this to hone and sharpen knife blades. . .generally on larger fixed blade knives. All done by hand and by eye, at angles known only to the ancient ones. . . :mrgreen:
May 21, 2013 22:33:40 #
Bangee5 wrote:
It's a what'cha ma call it.
Naaaah....wrong color. It's a dillyfidget.
May 21, 2013 22:49:47 #
May 22, 2013 00:34:30 #
I believe it is for burnishing metal like knifes and woodworking tools the sharp edge would be pressed down and slid/rubbed on the more pointed part and and it will simply smooth out the steel and make it flat and smooth when you do this on both sides of a knife it will produce a wire edge next you strop the knife on leather and break off the wire edge. thats my guess
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