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Pages: 1 SteveF Member Registered: 06/24/08 Posts: 1311 Loc: Cape Neddick, Maine Name this tool       #6034446 - 08/18/12 03:41 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   I picked up a cute little tool this morning. It's sort of like a small anvil. I could see using the pointy end to pull staples, but I really don't know its intended purpose. Anybody seen one of these before? Post Extras:       Admiral Member Registered: 06/26/07 Posts: 6687 Loc: NJ Re: Name this tool [Re: SteveF]       #6034487 - 08/18/12 04:53 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Ya got me. Leather working tool of some sort, perhaps? -------------------- Elvem ipsum etiam vivere Post Extras:       Todd O. Cronkhite Honored Veteran Registered: 11/10/06 Posts: 12599 Loc: Jacksonville Flori-duh Re: Name this tool [Re: SteveF]       #6034501 - 08/18/12 05:17 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Jewelers anvil is my guess. -------------------- Other people... all of them. Chit, I've become Fred. StuRat 03/02/13 I'd rather stab myself in the rectum with a mortise chisel than waste time reading a Government budget... Fred 3/23/13 Post Extras:       Jonathryn Member Registered: 07/05/10 Posts: 147 Re: Name this tool [Re: SteveF]       #6034753 - 08/18/12 10:27 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   It looks like it's made out of precision ground tool steel, like a planer gauge. Maybe it's a patternmaker's tool for chipping crap out of the corners in a pattern. Maybe it's a machinist's shop-made setup block made to take a reference off something in the recessed corner of a machined piece. Maybe it's for cleaning the swarf and chips out of the t-slot on a metal shaper or milling machine. Post Extras:       Timberwolf Honored Veteran and lant something or other Registered: 06/05/02 Posts: 60062 Loc: Sparkling Clearwater, Florida Re: Name this tool [Re: Todd O. Cronkhite]       #6034768 - 08/18/12 10:57 PM Edit   Reply   Quote   Me too... -------------------- "Remember, we are First Marines, and all the communist SOBs in the world cannot stop us from going where we intend to go".."Chesty" Puller Lt.Col. USMC..Chosin Reservoir, Korea 1950 Jack Edgar USMC.. Korea '51/'52 Post Extras:       Steve Hamlin Member Registered: 07/02/07 Posts: 329 Loc: Warwickshire, UK Re: Name this tool [Re: Timberwolf]       #6034836 - 08/19/12 06:31 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   A posh mouse perhaps? -------------------- Make your wood sing! Post Extras:       SteveF Member Registered: 06/24/08 Posts: 1311 Loc: Cape Neddick, Maine Re: Name this tool [Re: SteveF]       #6035839 - 08/20/12 08:30 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Hmmm, this one's a stumper I guess. Post Extras:       Acorn Member Registered: 04/17/07 Posts: 656 Loc: Georgetown, TX Re: Name this tool [Re: SteveF]       #6036003 - 08/20/12 10:52 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   My guess, staple remover. -------------------- serro erat sum http://Twitter.com/@TexasDave Post Extras:       mbholden Member Registered: 03/19/08 Posts: 27 Re: Name this tool [Re: SteveF]       #6036015 - 08/20/12 11:04 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   It is a patternmakers tool. Used for transferring heights from one measuring device to the model. Not common, as most heights were done with a height gage, but not uncommon either. Most of us just used a height gage point. Mike -------------------- Semper Audere! Post Extras:       SteveF Member Registered: 06/24/08 Posts: 1311 Loc: Cape Neddick, Maine Re: Name this tool [Re: mbholden]       #6038127 - 08/22/12 06:42 AM Edit   Reply   Quote   Thanks Mike! I always like to learn new things. This one was a weird one. Post Extras:       Pages: 1

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