Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: wvtools on January 05, 2014, 08:52:02 PM
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I got this tool in an estate, and do not have many good ideas about what it is. It may be some kind of holdfast or a scribe. I have an extra metal piece with it that has not been drilled out yet.
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/ebaystore/134604a.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/ebaystore/134604b.JPG)
(http://www.wvtools.com/images/ebaystore/134604c.JPG)
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Looks like the sort of home made tool a stone mason would have used - a sort of marking gauge for scribing lines parallel to an edge - many wood working tools (e.g. bevels or squares) had an equivalent for stone masons, but often they also had steel bodies.. But I guess a wooden body would serve just as well, although it would wear out faster... This one shows considerable wear on one face, consistent with being used on stone...
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The approximately 45 degree recess on the worn looking side appears to have been cut into it with a chisel rather than worn into it from use.