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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: rusty on May 13, 2012, 04:10:55 PM

Title: Stone tool?
Post by: rusty on May 13, 2012, 04:10:55 PM

OK, if this thing was bigger, I would assume it is a stone tool of some kind, but it's only 7" long and 5/8 wide at the end, and fairly sharp at the points...So I have no clue????

Title: Re: Stone tool?
Post by: BruceS on May 13, 2012, 04:29:37 PM

I would still say it is a stone too.  I wouldn't have expected Michelangelo to have carved His David with monster tools.  And I'll bet he had much smaller ones too.

Title: Re: Stone tool?
Post by: rusty on May 13, 2012, 05:21:40 PM

Ahh...good point.

I always think giant stone buildings, forgetting sculpture and art...


>Michelangelo to have carved His David ... with tools.

Somewhere, in some little old lady's basement, is a nondescript dusty wood box....
Waiting for a yard sale....

Title: Re: Stone tool?
Post by: wvtools on May 13, 2012, 08:43:24 PM

I always called these feather chisels, but I am not sure why.  My 1896 H. H. Harvey reprint catalog with stone worker's tools calls them tooth chisels.  They call the flared head ones mallet head chisels and the straight/tapered narrow at top ones hammer head chisels.,

Title: Re: Stone tool?
Post by: Papaw on May 13, 2012, 09:14:58 PM

Looks like it would fit in the box described here- http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=4336.0

Title: Re: Stone tool?
Post by: Aunt Phil on May 13, 2012, 10:40:33 PM

Not a cutter's tool, his work is done when the rock leaves the quarry, and that's too small for quarry work.

It's a stonesetter or stonemason's tool.  Hours of joy can be had with that device cutting away marble slabs to accommodate such things as electrical boxes for switches and outlets as well as wall hanging lights.

4 holes with a 1/4" star drill and a decent man can cut an opening for a 6 gang switchbox in under an hour.