A pretty specific tool here, this is a cooper's 5 1/2" Hand Chamfering Barrel Draw Knife. I had to really squint to make out enough of the logo to discover who the company was.
According to the mycompanies.fandom site;
The L. & I. J. White Company was founded in 1837 (not incorporated till 1892) by Leonard and Ichabod J. White in Monroe, Michigan. Their product line was mostly edge tools for woodworkers.
In 1843 they moved to Buffalo, New York and in 1928 the company merged with the A. A. Simonds-Dayton Company and Worden Tool Company to form the Simonds-Worden-White Company.
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I was (am) puzzled how you'd use this evidently one-handed knife. Wouldn't you know it, there's a museum of coopers' tools online.
I can't get the link to paste, but the place is just called the Coopers' Tool Museum should anyone care to google it. Nice-looking site (but I still can't figure out how the tool is used).
https://cooperstoolmuseum.com/ I like the sun plane. ;-)
I couldn't figure out how this tool works, there did not seem to be any provision for a second handle.
This was used to shape the chamfer on a barrel where the staves protrude past the head sometimes referred to as a the croze. The chamfer faces into the barrel and is formed before the head is
installed. The L-shaped handle is outside and above the end of the
barrel and the straight handle is inside the barrel. On a conventional drawknife the handle inside would hit the inside of the barrel. The outside handle provides most of the pull and the
inside handle mostly guides. There are a number of cooper's tools
that are specific to the trade.
Thank you for the explanation. I can understand how it would be used. It's fun to find these very specific tools in an out of context situation.,
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