Any idea what this is?

[RogerP]

Found at a car boot.

 

[Hardwood66]

Glass scorer?

 

[AndyT]

That's a goodun!

I can deduce this much: there is a little "anvil" with a dovetail to hold it in, clamped by the smaller screw. (The slit that ends in a hole will allow enough flex to tighten/loosen the grip on the anvil.

I'm guessing that the spiral bit can be slackened off with the big screw, and set to leave a wider gap.

So maybe it's a saw set? Obviously not the plier type, but something similar to the old manual "saw wrest". Instead of having a selection of slots of different widths, for different gauges of saw, you get one, adjustable slot. Does it adjust like that?

Or does the 'anvil' have a taper, so sliding it along the dovetail gives different openings?

 

[RogerP]

I'll get some more detailed photos uploaded later.

 

[toolsntat]

Its a knife for cutting the welts ?? on boots n shoes I think.....

Andy

 

[AndyT]

Its a knife for cutting the welts ?? on boots n shoes I think.....

Andy

Ah, I think I forgot the golden rule of tool identification - "it's probably for leather work!"

But now you say it, I can see that it looks as if you can set it up to give a variable amount of 'depth' setting to the blade - so presumably it cuts the leather without going all the way through, or without going into the layer below?

Edit: - Andy's right (Toolsntat, that is, not me!)

More info here:
http://www.thehcc.org/discus/messages/4/2010.html

(scroll down a bit)

 

[toolsntat]

Talking of boot and shoe etc, this place has got to be worth a gander for a rainy Monday night 8) :roll:
Check out the craftsmanship in the gallery :shock: =D>

http://www.thehcc.org/cgi-bin/discus/di ... ?pg=topics

Andy

 

[Alf]

Its a knife for cutting the welts ?? on boots n shoes I think.....

Andy

Ah, I think I forgot the golden rule of tool identification - "it's probably for leather work!"

I concur - definitely a leather-working tool. Until proven otherwise. :lol:

Are youse guys going out and actively looking for forum-stumping tools these days or something? Sheesh.

 

[AndyT]

At risk of derailing future threads like this one, I do recommend everyone to visit the Belgian Museum of Old Tools. Not only because it will impress all your friends when you drop it into conversation, but because they have a database of how to recognise tools by shape (or by name, or trade) and also have a nice slideshow of unidentified tools!

The website is also in English.

Start here: http://www.mot.be/w/1/index.php/MuseumEn/Museum

The database is ID-DOC on the left hand menu; the slideshow of mysteries is here:

http://www.mot.be/w/1/index.php/WhatsItEn/WhatsIt

(... and yes, I reckon they are ALL for leather work!)

 

[Alf]

Well consider that one bookmarked. (And that I will be dropping the Belgian Museum of Old Tools into all subsequent conversations whether my friends are impressed or not.)

 

[jimi43]

I'm thinking with that hole and channel to the hole it has something to do with cutting or bending wire?

Jim

 

[Phil Pascoe]

a can opener?

 

[dunbarhamlin]

I do recommend everyone to visit the Belgian Museum of Old Tools. Not only because it will impress all your friends when you drop it into conversation...

It does suggest certain cachet.
Unlike the Belgian Chip Museum
What next? Spy foiling dogs?
Ahem.