Monday Mystery dowelling tool Update. It's a leather working tool.
Here's a one-hand tool that looks like it could be used to size a dowel or possibly to make tapered tenon joints. Thoughts?
3 comments:
Dave
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Note the matching groove that runs along the top, visible in your center picture. I believe it's a leather trimming tool called a cobbler's sole trimmer...basically, a plane used to shave excess leather when soling or resoling footwear. Here's a little more sophisticated version, but I'm sure the one in your pics worked perfectly fine:
It’s not clear to me, is the cutting edge on the curved jaw? Would the gap control the amount of material removed, in this case maybe .100“? I see them using a grinding wheel on YouTube.
Yes, that's the cutting edge. You hold the tool by the handle and pull it toward you, usually with the work in your lap. The "sole" is removable via that screw to facilitate sharpening. The interior curl is formed to guide the leather shaving out of the tool, like you see on some chisel and rabbet planes. It looks like the one you posted cuts a fixed thickness; the one in the link is adjustable.
They do use composite grinding wheels to remove excess sole today; it's dusty and noisy but a heck of a lot faster.
3 comments:
Note the matching groove that runs along the top, visible in your center picture. I believe it's a leather trimming tool called a cobbler's sole trimmer...basically, a plane used to shave excess leather when soling or resoling footwear. Here's a little more sophisticated version, but I'm sure the one in your pics worked perfectly fine:
https://www.tias.com/8600/PictPage/3924181268.html
Picture: https://www.tias.com/stores/gea/pictures/t33554c.jpg
That's a cool find.
It’s not clear to me, is the cutting edge on the curved jaw? Would the gap control the amount of material removed, in this case maybe .100“? I see them using a grinding wheel on YouTube.
Yes, that's the cutting edge. You hold the tool by the handle and pull it toward you, usually with the work in your lap. The "sole" is removable via that screw to facilitate sharpening. The interior curl is formed to guide the leather shaving out of the tool, like you see on some chisel and rabbet planes. It looks like the one you posted cuts a fixed thickness; the one in the link is adjustable.
They do use composite grinding wheels to remove excess sole today; it's dusty and noisy but a heck of a lot faster.
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