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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 -- ******************************* 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.6125 / Virus Database: 4409/10576 - Release Date: 09/04/15 |
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256115 | Peter Marquis-Kyle <peter@m...> | 2015‑09‑05 | Re: actual mystery tool |
A millstone dressing hammer? -- Peter Marquis-Kyle www.marquis-kyle.com.au 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 > |
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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 |
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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? > -- Rock Creek Mill & Heritage Farm, LLC N7297 County Road A Argyle, Wisconsin 53504 Valerie Jo 608-636-3322 Mike 608-636-3283 http://rockcreekmil landheritagefarm.wordpress.com/ |
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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 |
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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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