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256114 scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> 2015‑09‑05 actual mystery tool
Well yard sale today! One of my favorite pickers came to town
with a load of junk.
   I creamed it early :)
I found this tool among other things I needed oh-so-badly. heeheh.

    Wish the Millrat was here to make fun of me.
Its probably something from one of the kinds of mills he worked in,
  instead of the kind I know.  All mills is not the same mills.

    Its elegantly forged, the inlaid hard steel cutting bits at each end 
are very apparent. It is deeply stamped but with a crude stamp. It 
really looks like City Tool Works, Cal to me
   The Cal is very clear. The rest well....... not so much

  Anyone have ideas? guesses? Could be for wood, could be for barnacles 
or grinding stones for all I know. Never saw the pattern.

http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysterytoo
l1.jpg">http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysterytool
1.jpg

  yours Scott

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256115 Peter Marquis-Kyle <peter@m...> 2015‑09‑05 Re: actual mystery tool
A millstone dressing hammer?

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On 5/09/2015 11:55 AM, scott grandstaff wrote:
>   Well yard sale today! One of my favorite pickers came to town
> with a load of junk.
>    I creamed it early :)
> I found this tool among other things I needed oh-so-badly. heeheh.
>
>     Wish the Millrat was here to make fun of me.
> Its probably something from one of the kinds of mills he worked in,
>   instead of the kind I know.  All mills is not the same mills.
>
>     Its elegantly forged, the inlaid hard steel cutting bits at each end
> are very apparent. It is deeply stamped but with a crude stamp. It
> really looks like City Tool Works, Cal to me
>    The Cal is very clear. The rest well....... not so much
>
>   Anyone have ideas? guesses? Could be for wood, could be for barnacles
> or grinding stones for all I know. Never saw the pattern.
>
> http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysteryt
ool1.jpg">http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysteryto
ol1.jpg
>
>
>   yours Scott
>
256116 Scott Murman <smurman@s...> 2015‑09‑05 Re: actual mystery tool
there’s a city tool works outside LA that does metal fab work.    i think they
mainly support the aerospace industry, or at least used to when there was one in
LA.     i’m guessing something shop made for a purpose and they stamped it
themselves.

> On Sep 4, 2015, at 6:55 PM, scott grandstaff  wrote:
> 
> Well yard sale today! One of my favorite pickers came to town
> with a load of junk.
>  I creamed it early :)
> I found this tool among other things I needed oh-so-badly. heeheh.
> 
>   Wish the Millrat was here to make fun of me.
> Its probably something from one of the kinds of mills he worked in,
> instead of the kind I know.  All mills is not the same mills.
> 
>   Its elegantly forged, the inlaid hard steel cutting bits at each end are
very apparent. It is deeply stamped but with a crude stamp. It really looks like
City Tool Works, Cal to me
>  The Cal is very clear. The rest well....... not so much
> 
> Anyone have ideas? guesses? Could be for wood, could be for barnacles or
grinding stones for all I know. Never saw the pattern.
> 
> http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysteryt
ool1.jpg">http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysteryto
ol1.jpg
> 
> yours Scott
> 
> -- 
> *******************************
>   Scott Grandstaff
>   Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
>   scottg@s...
>   http://www.snowcrest.n
et/kitty/sgrandstaff/
>   http://www.snowcr
est.net/kitty/hpages/index.html
> 
> 
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256117 mikerock <mikerock@m...> 2015‑09‑05 Re: actual mystery tool
Peter nails it.  I have several and they work well.
First dressed stones in 1974 at Hyde, WI.  It was learn as you go but I 
was lucky to have watched some older guys and kept good mental notes.

Nice tool.

Mike

On 9/4/2015 10:01 PM, Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
> A millstone dressing hammer?
>

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256118 Mike Lynd 2015‑09‑05 Re: actual mystery tool
Perhaps a sort of scutch hammer?

best wishes,

Mike Lynd

On 5 September 2015 at 02:55, scott grandstaff  wrote:

>  Well yard sale today! One of my favorite pickers came to town
> with a load of junk.
>   I creamed it early :)
> I found this tool among other things I needed oh-so-badly. heeheh.
>
>    Wish the Millrat was here to make fun of me.
> Its probably something from one of the kinds of mills he worked in,
>  instead of the kind I know.  All mills is not the same mills.
>
>    Its elegantly forged, the inlaid hard steel cutting bits at each end
> are very apparent. It is deeply stamped but with a crude stamp. It really
> looks like City Tool Works, Cal to me
>   The Cal is very clear. The rest well....... not so much
>
>  Anyone have ideas? guesses? Could be for wood, could be for barnacles or
> grinding stones for all I know. Never saw the pattern.
>
>
> http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysteryt
ool1.jpg">http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/oldtools/mysteryto
ol1.jpg
>
>  yours Scott
>
> --
> *******************************
>    Scott Grandstaff
>    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
>    scottg@s...
>    http://www.snowcrest.
net/kitty/sgrandstaff/
>    http://www.snowc
rest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html
>
>
>
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256123 <ecoyle@t...> 2015‑09‑06 Re: actual mystery tool
serendipity happens once again.

In the alley culture of the garage I use for a shop, there lives across the
alley a stone mason. Trained in traditional stone masonry, gargoyles and all
that stuff. He gets his tools from  England when he goes to visit family.

He know’s I’m a garage saler, and asked me to keep an eye open for stone masons
tools, which, as the seridipity note implies, happened today.

The vintage tools I posted a few days ago, well, the fella dug out a box of
stone masons tools that I found when I revisited him today And he had indeed
found a box of stone masons tools. Most of which are incomprehsible to me, but I
can tell broken tools so I avoided them...only picked up a few which looked
intact and relatively sharp.

Waiting for stonemason alley-buddy to take a look at them, maybe learn something
along the way.

The listserve axiom is that if they ain’t wwing tools, they must be
leatherworking tools, to which might be added  a corollary (?#1)....if they aint
wwing tools, or leather, they could be stone masons tool!!!.

Eric

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