GG,
Has everyone seen this?
http://www.corradishop.com/
--
roy griggs
roygriggs@c...

roygriggs@c... wrote:
> GG,
> Has everyone seen this?
> http://www.corradishop.com/

I hadn't even heard of Carradi.

Google has;

https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/half-round-cabinet-rasps

  BugBear

Thanks, BugBear, for the outstanding Google comparison!!!!


I hadn't even heard of Carradi.

Google has;

https://www.canadianwoodworking.com/half-round-cabinet-rasps

  BugBear

Just a guess, but I am thinking rug or tapestry repair with the large needle
eyes, although with the blues ends from heating in a flame coulee be from
streaking cultures on agar plate or carving wax, plastic etc. WAG

Sent from my iPhone
Brent Kinsey

My guess is saddlery. 

Hard to gauge size, but if I'm close could have used those when I actually had
horses ...... Leather reins come with metal fixtures to make them adjustable. I
always wanted to lose the metal and stitch them to length...

I have a friend who is a professional ship model restorer (talk about esoteric!)
and he has made and uses tools exactly like this for maneuvering small lines and
holding and pushing them to tie knots and such.

Ed Minch

Definitely user made from large needles. My guess is for sculpting or
texturing clay. 

DGW (in CNY were the thermometer read a brisk -32 F (-35C) this morning and
it's now a balmy -6F)

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Pfeifer
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To: Brent Kinsey
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My guess is saddlery. 

Hard to gauge size, but if I'm close could have used those when I actually
had horses ...... Leather reins come with metal fixtures to make them
adjustable. I always wanted to lose the metal and stitch them to length...

> On Feb 14, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Brent Kinsey  wrote:
> 
> Just a guess, but I am thinking rug or tapestry repair with the large 
> needle eyes, although with the blues ends from heating in a flame 
> coulee be from streaking cultures on agar plate or carving wax, 
> plastic etc. WAG
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> Brent Kinsey
> 
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2016, at 11:15, Gary Katsanis 
wrote:
>> 
>> There are a couple of locals who look for tools for me. Recently, one of
them came in with some tools that she wanted to sell; she asked me what they
were, and I really couldn't tell her.
>> 
>> More than one of the tools looked like it was blued on the tip, and these
had the look of user-made items.
>> 
>> I think these might be off-charter, but I'm not sure!
>> 
>> http://galootcentral.com/components/cpgalbums/userpics/10072/20160214
>> _085019.jpg
>> 
>> Thanks for any insights you might have, Gary Katsanis Albion New 
>> York, USA where the temp got to -4 last night (-20 C).
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I immediately thought ‘ships in bottles’  but I see ship modelling has already
been suggested.  That would be more likely if the shafts are short.

Richard Wilson
Galoot in Northumberland

Shafts are about 25cm or a good hand-span. -GK

Check here for commercial versions:

http://www.micromark.com/5-piece-rigging-tool-set,7054.html

Or just google “model ship rigging tools” to see dozens of iterations.  All of
these guys make their own, and they think nothing of making a new one for a
special task.  I am convinced this is what they are."

Ed Minch

The minute I saw them I “knew” what they were.  Not because I have any
experience with them or model boat building, but because I have seen a set
online within the last two weeks.  If not here on the porch, maybe in Tony Seo’s
last for sale list?

—Scott