I’ve used a compass saw to great effect carving pumpkins at Halloween.

Michael

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 7:08 AM Michael Blair  wrote:

> John, there are bung reamers, but what  you're thinking of are bung
> augers.  Those with screw auger nose are a good deal more recent.  The
> earlier bung augers had a screw tip like a gimlet, and sometimes not
> even that (those were more like spoon bits).
>
> Depending on how badly they need to be sharpened, I use a saw file or an
> Arkansas stone.  Reamers are easier to sharpen, as they have a blade not
> unlike a wooden spokeshave set in a tapered wood core.
>
> Mike in Woodland
>
> On 2019-07-07 04:18, John Ruth wrote:
>
> > Ed,
> >
> > I had also thought those reamers were cooper's tools, but my
> understanding was that they were TAP reamers, rather than BUNG reamers.
> >
> > My humble understanding had been that the bung stave of a wooden barrel
> was bored and reamed by a single tee-handled tool which has a regular
> screw-auger nose and then a reamer cone with a single plane-like cutting
> edge above that.  ( How coopers sharpened that reamer edge was always a
> mystery! )
> >
> > The tap hole in the edge of the head of the barrel I thought was bored
> with an ordinary auger and then ostensibly taper-teamed for a cork with one
> of these supposed "cooper's tap reamers."  _I now believe that Scott is
> correct about these being lead-pipe plumber's tools because the taper is
> "just wrong" for a cork._
> >
> > Scott has done it again!  Dissipated an old tool myth with true
> Galootish knowledge!
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Michael