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[wcndave]

My father gave me a bunch of tools.five look like a set and there's clearly a parting tool and a skew gauge. Two are very shallow and could be spindle gauges, however I have never seen any so shallow.

The other tool is completely round on the outside, the only bevel is on the inside. The offset handle its also odd to me, possibly a very long handled carving tool?

The turning one's are sorby, the other has no discernable marking.

Any ideas?

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[wcndave]

Here are the pictures

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[woodbrains]

Hello.

The gouge with the long cranked blade is a paring gouge, not for turning so don't use for such, the cranked neck might give control problems. The other gouges are continental gouges for turning. And you have a small skew and a parting tool.
Hope this helps.

Mike.

 

[wcndave]

Thanks. What benefits or disadvantages might a continental till have over a standard skew or spindle? Which tool would it replace? And what mighty one use a paring gauges for. Sorry but I am not so au fait with ye olde tools ;-)

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[wcndave]

Tool not till..

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[Cheshirechappie]

The cranked in-cannel paring gouge is a specialist tool used mainly by engineering patternmakers.

Back in the day, when many foundries had their associated pattern shop, there were many such craftsmen. The patterns used to make the sand moulds in which matal castings were poured were mostly of wood (Yellow Pine and Jelutong among others). Some of those patterns could be very large (think frames of old woodworking machinery), and as metal castings don't like sharp corners where sides are blended to bases and so on, paring fillets was a common job. Hence the handle cranked away from the blade, so that the knuckles would clear the work.)

Other trades adopted the tool, but it isn't usually such an out-and-out necessity as in pattermaking.

 

[woodbrains]

Hello,

Pairing gouges are for making long round bottomed grooves. They were pattern makers tools as much as anything, but any woodworking task that required grooves. Similar to flat paring gouges, but these obviously made flat bottomed grooves for housings etc, so are more common. The router with a core box bit would take the place of the paring gouge now.

Continental turning gouges do more or less the same as spindle gouges, but are capable of a bit more roughing too. Some people have a preference for one or the other. I think the continental gouge is used closer in technique to a skew which has a pronounced round to it for turning coves and beads. It is just what you prefer/ are used to.

Mike.

 

[Richard T]

Paring over a wide area. The cranked handle keeps your knuckles out of the way.

 

[AndyT]

The three turning tools with slim handles - shallow gouge, skew and parting tool - look exactly like the starter set which I first used. (They were a Woodworker magazine special offer in the 80s.) If so, they are carbon steel not HSS. Perfectly usable if kept sharp.

 

[wcndave]

Paring over a wide area. The cranked handle keeps your knuckles out of the way.

Interesting. You'd end up with a rather rippled surface, and a plane might be better for flats, so i suppose something like a concave chair seat... Although then a bevel down tool might be preferable...

I'm only cleaning up, reshaping and sharpening for my father, so he'll probably use it for opening tins of paint.

Btw i mispoke at start, they are all marples, not sorby.

 

[Richard T]

Richard T wrote:
Paring over a wide area. The cranked handle keeps your knuckles out of the way.


Interesting. You'd end up with a rather rippled surface, and a plane might be better for flats, so i suppose something like a concave chair seat... Although then a bevel down tool might be preferable...


In situations more like carving/ free - hand grooving/moulding rather than wide surfacing.