MWTCA April 2018 'What's It' Project

[Jay]

Now im digging deeper and i feel tis is a custom made (to specs) checkering chisel or saw for gunsmithing and carving. Similar to this....

[Dadio]

Leather working tools:

 

https://www.rubylane.com/search?q=Vintage+leather+working+tools

[p_toad]

You'll notice from the picture that our object is apparently NOT sharpened on the hook back section.   My guess is that it started out much like this one;

 

and that the curve (belly) was sharpened away over time (much like many old very heavily used and sharpened knives).   I thought about cutting away the curved part of this one but don't have the ideal image software so that it showed straight from one point to the other...you'll see that it's virtually identical to our guest.

[HandyDan]

On 4/3/2018 at 12:20 PM, John Morris said:

The most compelling answer yet, now we have to go the extra mile, contact a seasoned chip carver, and get their opinion, or several chip carvers to get a general consensus, and/or a website of collectible chip carving tools etc etc. Verifiable references win the grand prize!

 

I Have been trying to find more info on it and have a few emails out on it.  I do have this reply from a carving forum.  Would it be enough?

 

Forum Reply:  I have one from the now defunct AMT company. It has been surprisingly useful.

 

More pictures of similar tools.

 

 

 

Edited April 4, 2018 by HandyDan

[Jay]

I believe this is a variation of a leather embossing iron. Primarily used for saddle makers

[Stick486]

On 4/3/2018 at 7:22 AM, Stick486 said:

large animal tendon harvesting knife...

 

still stand by this from my second job I had in a rendering plant..... 57 years ago..

but now would like to add harpoon tip/head on a handle... re-purposed that is...

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/316800155013450159/

http://whalecraft.net/Single_Flue.html#anchor17097

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=harpoon+heads&t=ffsb&iax=images&ia=images&iai=http%3A%2F%2Fphotos1.blogger.com%2Fblogger%2F2125%2F1898%2F1600%2Fsketchbk.55.jpg

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=harpoon+heads+%2B+tips&t=ffsb&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images

 

 

 

  

 

 

[Dadio]

 

Here is some:

https://craftntools.com/vergez-blanchard/knifes-and-cutters/hawkbill-knife-with-two-sharp-edges

 

And then these:

 

Herb

Edited April 10, 2018 by Dadio

[steven newman]

Over-thinking this a bit?

 

Nowadays, you use a razorblade holder to trim the edges of veneers where they overlap at a corner.....that is all this tool does.   Just run it along an edge, to trim the excess veneer off.    Was made before them Plastic holder thingys came out.   Sharp ends allowed you to reach right into a corner, or..follow a curved edge.  Simple...

[Jay]

We should just ask ahhhnallld. He knows everything.

[PostalTom]

Is this close?

 

Listed here:  http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/253461008468?vectorid=229466&item=253461008468&rmvSB=true

 

 

[John Morris]

On 4/10/2018 at 1:06 PM, Jay said:

We should just ask ahhhnallld. He knows everything.

I just saw this, very funny Justin!!!!

[HandyDan]

I put out five emails to carvers and chip carvers.  Only got one reply which is the one I already listed.

On 4/4/2018 at 5:15 PM, HandyDan said:

Forum Reply:  I have one from the now defunct AMT company. It has been surprisingly useful.

I asked if he could send me a picture and he did.  I had listed the suspect from this thread and the newer ones I found and it turns out to be this.  So his is evidently newer.

 

[HandyDan]

I also thought it may be a trimming tool for wallpaper hangers but could find no evidence of that either.  Here is as close as I came in that venue.

 

Edited April 29, 2018 by HandyDan

[p_toad]

Did I miss it?   Did someone actually guess that the old "thing" was?  

 

Don't keep us in suspenders. 

[John Morris]

No successful answer was given. The research and verification is lacking.

We will go to a draw for an MWTCA Membership.

[Dadio]

I go with Sticks' suggestion, a small whaling harpoon for catching fish in an aquarium.

 

Herb

[John Morris]

We have a 1 year MWTCA Membership winner!

An acceptable answer was not provided this month. So to a random draw we went as we awarded the 1 year MWTCA Membership.

 

The winner

We'd like to announce @DRAGON1 as our random draw winner for the month of April, 2018 "What's It". Dragon's name was drawn from our official TPW ball cap of the contributors who participated in "MWTCA's What's It" for the month of April!

Congrats Mike!

 

Contact

Mike, please PM me with your shipping address, phone number, and spouse (or significant other) name and we'll get an MWTCA membership out to you asap, along with all the benefits of being a member of this great organization.

Thank you all for your participation!

[Dadio]

Congratulations Mike, You will be be in good company.

Herb

[p_toad]

Dragon's name was drawn

 

Congrats!   Very interesting on the newsletter side and their directory just came out.   I certainly didn't realize they had been around so long. 

[Stick486]

Congratulations Mike...