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[wizard]

Everyone needs one of these

 

[Mr_P]

3rd one down is a mezzaluna and is used for chopping herbs. Mine came in a job lot of carpentry tools and when I tried to flog it as a drawknife I had 3 messages telling me so. Think I got a tenner for it plus p+p, so all good in the end.

 

[wizard]

It’s the first and second one that I haven’t got a clue as to what they are, the second one is marked TAYLORS EYE WITNESS SHEFFIELD.

 

[Cheshirechappie]

The last one isn't a woodworking tool, either. Indeed, the last one has probably been banned under the Geneva Convention, almost all H&S regulations and the Clean Air Act. It might be a good idea to have the local Fire Brigade and Bomb Disposal on standby if you ever decide to try it out.

I may be wrong here, but I think the first two are builders' tools, used in the pointing of brickwork and masonry.

 

[wizard]

Close I think the second one may be for icing a cake

 

[Richard T]

All confiscated, I'm sure, from the military wing of Heston Blumenthal.

 

[GazPal]

The First two look like vegetable/herb chopping tools - same as number three - and the last reminds me of a type of burner used when burning back crop stubble/heather.

 

[bugbear]

and the last reminds me of a type of burner used when burning back crop stubble/heather.

I think it's exactly what it looks like - a giant paraffin blowlamp. These were used as portable forges/furnaces, to melt tar or lead on site, where today we'd have a propane burner.

BugBear

 

[AndyT]

I'm with CC on the first two - bricklayer's jointers. Can you confirm that what you'd expect to be the cutting edge is in fact smooth?

Taylor's Eye Witness are still going, making knives in Sheffield.

 

[wizard]

Fourth photo. Found it in my 1958 Buck & Hickman catalogue it’s a Monitor brazing lamp

 

[GazPal]

I'm with CC on the first two - bricklayer's jointers. Can you confirm that what you'd expect to be the cutting edge is in fact smooth?

Taylor's Eye Witness are still going, making knives in Sheffield.

They're not jointers, as their handles have too much lift and they're angled parallel to the blade, plus the first tool's handle is cast too far over the blade, although the second tool could be used as a striking knife when pointing.

It'd be handy to know how thick their blades are.

 

[bugbear]

I'm with CC on the first two - bricklayer's jointers. Can you confirm that what you'd expect to be the cutting edge is in fact smooth?

Taylor's Eye Witness are still going, making knives in Sheffield.

I thought of brick jointers for tool #2, but having reviewed some "known" jointers, I'm less sure.

e.g.

Here's a rough eBay search:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?LH_Ite ... r%22&rt=nc

Further, Taylor Eye Witness is very much a knife/cutlery brand.

I've got a half-memory ticking the back of my head that I know what tool #2 is, but I can't grasp it fully.

BugBear

 

[wizard]

The first one has a very thick blade the second one made by taylors-eye-witness.co.uk is very thin

 

[AndyT]

The first one has a very thick blade the second one made by taylors-eye-witness.co.uk is very thin

But do they show any signs of being sharpened? Or is the edge a narrow flat surface?

 

[wizard]

no 1 has been sharpened not the other one

 

[woodbrains]

Hello,

Taylor's Eye Witness make chef's knives. I think they are for dough cutting and icing cakes (1 and 2) the third is a mezzaluna as already commented.

Mike.

 

[bugbear]

Slight "argument from authority" but the ebay seller thinks #1 (or something very like it) is a herb chopper.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-HERB- ... 7675.l2557

Which agrees with Gary

On #2, I've found "another one", but no good identification:

http://www.diggerlee.com/shop/sold-arch ... ped-knife/

BugBear

 

[woodbrains]

Slight "argument from authority" but the ebay seller thinks #1 (or something very like it) is a herb chopper.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VINTAGE-HERB- ... 7675.l2557

Which agrees with Gary

On #2, I've found "another one", but no good identification:

http://www.diggerlee.com/shop/sold-arch ... ped-knife/

BugBear

Hello,

The first could very well be a herb chopper, I was only guessing. The third most definitely is, I use one meeself. I know the category of tools will be cookery though, I have a couple of Taylor's Eye Witness kitchen knives, though not as characterful as these.

What sort of slope is the OP on though; buying tools without even knowing their use. That is a serious habit! :roll:

Mike.

 

[bugbear]

What sort of slope is the OP on though; buying tools without even knowing their use.

Mike.

I've bought tools precisely because I couldn't ID them. Given how many tools I can identify, anything
I can't is de facto interesting.

I may be at the end of the slope you're thinking of.

BugBear

 

[wizard]

I knew what no 3 was :lol: