thought it was a leather tool but can not find one like it????

[oldgoaly]

Handle looks like some other leather working tools?
paint nibs are similar at the working end?
What do I have hear?

[mikeswrenches]

It looks a little like a veterinarian's float for horses teeth.

Mike

[oldgoaly]

You got it! I googled  vintage horse dental float  one of the images looks just like it. Thanks!

[Billman49]

Close, but farriers rasps usually have individual rasp teeth, occasionally float cut teeth, that cut in one direction only. More important they are usually U shaped, with the sides acting as guides to keep the rasp on the tooth.

This is a shoe makers peg shave or float - it cuts in both directions, used for trimming the wooden pegs that protrude through the sole into the inside of the shoe... They are also found with rasp teeth (especially in France, where they were also used by sabotiers to remove rough spots inside  the wood clogs (sabots)...)..

Good links to English sites on the outils anciens forum...  http://www.forum-outils-anciens.com/t5857-R-pe-pour.htm

see: http://maensivu.blogspot.co.uk/ (you'll have to serach through some old posts to find it...) Just found it 2013, Monday, February 18..



You can see the wooden pegs that fasten the upper to the sole poking through the inner sole...

[mvwcnews]

<snip> .. They are also found with rasp teeth (especially in France, where they were also used by sabotiers to remove rough spots inside  the wood clogs (sabots)...)..<snip>

Ah -- sabotiers is a good word & not to be confused with saboteurs ..  ( suddenly had a flashback of Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy  "...  sabotage, sabotage -- oh sabotage." )

[Billman49]

Also, forgot to mention the angle of the blade with the shank - horse rasps are in line, not at an angle..

[Billman49]

The word saboteur also comes from the French - wooden clogs (sabots) were thrown onto machinery to sabotage it.... the saboteurs used sabots made by the sabotiers.... later clogs were made by machinery (just finished by hand) - I wonder what the saboteurs made of that...

[rusty]

They clogged the machinery ;P

[wvtools]

Occasionally you see a peg rasp like that with a chisel blade on the end also.

[Branson]

They clogged the machinery ;P

GROAN!