OK, now I've got the search bit between my teeth;

Steven Cocker, on www.britishblades.com/forums, says "I inlayed a Shield
using my parser and worked back the spring of the knife." in a post
dated 22-01-10, so someone is still using the tool.

Here's gold - a video of Stan Shaw using the darn thing:

http://www.mylearning.org/playback-video.asp?journeyid=117&resourceid On
www.bladeforums.com we have kc_custom, 12-17-2009,

...I make the shield and the parser plate...

So I guess he's using a parser

   BugBear
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