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[formariz 11,987]

This tool has (had) a very specific function. It is not a screwdriver! It was used in a very specific craft nearly extinct today. 
 

 

 

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

Mama used to heat those up on the stove and brand our little bottoms when we was bad little sheep.  

 

Our backsides were like LEATHER by the time we were teenagers!

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Jeff-C175

[Ed Kennell 38,175]

scraper.....surface plate ?

[formariz 11,987]

Next to a large (13”) screwdriver for reference.

[Mickwhitt 4,624]

Only a guess, but is it something used in wicker weaving or similar?

Its not strong enough to be a pry bar and the length is foxing me for other uses. Wondered if it was for opening up gaps to thread in wicker stems.

Mick 

[ebinmaine 67,502]

 

Very interesting. 

 

I've a couple of comedic uses but no notion of actual. 

[The Tuul Crib 7,336]

Looks like a leather tool of some sort.

either that or a very worn out flattened screwdriver!

[JoeM 7,874]

Checkering tool?

[Ed Kennell 38,175]

9 hours ago, formariz said:

 

 

 

 

9 hours ago, formariz said:

 

 

 

        Surely looks like the end is ground to be a scraper.

[Ed Kennell 38,175]

Bee hive cleaner.

[DennisThornton 4,769]

I collect old tools and not only do I not have one but I have NO idea what it is.  Got way more questions than answers...

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

48 minutes ago, DennisThornton said:

way more questions

 

I noticed those too.  I still think it's a branding iron!  Probably from the "Lazy Rectangle Ranch"

[formariz 11,987]

A little history of it and hint.It belonged to the happy sailor on the photo. Although no relation to me but the father of a great friend i was chosen to inherit most of his tools that were left to my friend his son. I keep his photo in my shop since his spirit is all around me here. Along with tools I also inherited  his lifetime accumulation of brass, bronze, and copper screws, nails, rivets and solid stock. 
 

Edited April 19, 2021 by formariz

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

Tool to help weave loop ends on lines?

[Mickwhitt 4,624]

I thought a marlin spike was the sailors choice of tool for splicing ropes? 

Could be for helping to feed through individual strands of a big rope when making loops or splices.

I tie knots but haven't seen a tool like this in the literature.

Could be a blind and its a gunnery tool or even a lever for opening paint tins, sailors spent a lot of time painting various bits of ship as it was like living on the forth bridge. 

[DennisThornton 4,769]

Splicing, pushing rope strands or making hammocks?  Everything is rounded and somewhat polished on the leading edge, there are no thin, sharp or cutting edges and the handle suggests pushing and the overall length suggests pushing to some depth.  Yet none of that explains the marks to me...  And if "accumulation of brass, bronze, and copper screws, nails, rivets and solid stock" was meant to be a hint it was wasted on me.

[formariz 11,987]

1 minute ago, DennisThornton said:

And if "accumulation of brass, bronze, and copper screws, nails, rivets and solid stock" was meant to be a hint it was wasted on me.

Not if one thinks a little harder about those materials and their associations. 
 

 

4 minutes ago, DennisThornton said:

are no thin, sharp or cutting edges and the handle suggests pushing and the overall length suggests pushing to some depth

You got something to think about there too.

[DennisThornton 4,769]

Marine fasteners but I make no connection with the tool...  Considerable length at the end of the blade with very little tapper, but I have no idea why.  I'm thinking that if I don't wake up in the middle of the night tonight then this one has gotten me.

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

It doesnt look like anything I have used before in ropework. However it might have a role in caulking decks and hulls - pushing the rope in before applying tar or whatever into the remaining crack - I have done this but we just used a screw driver if memory serves correctly.

[DennisThornton 4,769]

2 minutes ago, Dan.gerous said:

It doesnt look like anything I have used before in ropework. However it might have a role in caulking decks and hulls - pushing the rope in before applying tar or whatever into the remaining crack - I have done this but we just used a screw driver if memory serves correctly.

Ones I've seen were wider and often used with a mallet but I claim very little knowledge of boat building.  I do admire boat builders though!  I'd be lost without right angles, plumb and level.  I've always tried hard not to have ANY curve in my walls!

[formariz 11,987]

Does this finalize answer for anyone?

[Dan.gerous 2,696]

2 minutes ago, DennisThornton said:

Ones I've seen were wider and often used with a mallet but I claim very little knowledge of boat building.  I do admire boat builders though!  I'd be lost without right angles, plumb and level.  I've always tried hard not to have ANY curve in my walls!

I am the default carpenter on my ship, and can usually spend most of my trip building or rebuilding things - its a nightmare working on ships, nothing is level, or square and everything has pipework and frames through it, or is poorly built...

[DennisThornton 4,769]

3 minutes ago, Dan.gerous said:

I am the default carpenter on my ship, and can usually spend most of my trip building or rebuilding things - its a nightmare working on ships, nothing is level, or square and everything has pipework and frames through it, or is poorly built...

A very talented carpenter/builder bought a big fiberglass hull and started to fit it out. Spent years, gave up and finally died.  I know that I'm not a boat builder!

[Jeff-C175 7,202]

13 minutes ago, formariz said:

Does this finalize answer for anyone?

 

Looks like Mama's wig!

 

 

Edited April 19, 2021 by Jeff-C175

[stevasaurus 22,740]

It's a basket weaving tool (straight).     Cas, you find the neatest things.