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Preston style adjustable bit handle WIP

Well, I enjoyed watching that. Nice result, and a good recovery from the early mistake.

It looks a similar size to the handles on those Monument side branch opener tools for lead plumbing, which often appear for sale mistakenly as a woodwork tool. But they all seem to have fitted handles.
 
Sheffield Tony said:
Well, I enjoyed watching that. Nice result, and a good recovery from the early mistake.

It looks a similar size to the handles on those Monument side branch opener tools for lead plumbing, which often appear for sale mistakenly as a woodwork tool. But they all seem to have fitted handles.
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I think you mean one of these:
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I can confirm that they are no use on wood but do work for their intended purpose of making holes in lead pipes for branch connections20230430_160422.jpg:20230430_160445.jpg20230430_160606.jpg
 
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toolsntat said:
Yes Andy, very nice project and thank you for taking your time to do yet another wonderful write up 👏👏
You could put a chunky slotted driver bit in it and cause the next internet stampede from the masses for cap iron screwdrivers, I'm sure everyone would want one😊😎
Cheers, Andy
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What a great idea Andy. If I had any social media presence beyond this forum, I'd be influencing my little cotton socks off!!

But you guys can all be ahead of the pack...

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Remember, you saw it here first! :)
 
Sheffield Tony said:
Well, I enjoyed watching that. Nice result, and a good recovery from the early mistake.

It looks a similar size to the handles on those Monument side branch opener tools for lead plumbing, which often appear for sale mistakenly as a woodwork tool. But they all seem to have fitted handles.
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I agree, and what a splendid digression you prompted! Thanks all.

(I wonder if it's time for a strange "gouge" that I found in a box of woodwork tools...)
 
Ok, for anyone with a few minutes to spare on a grey Sunday afternoon, here's the puzzle I mentioned. Overall length 7 1/2" / 190mm.

Anyone care to identify it?
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Looks a bit like a cheese sampling tool, but I'm guessing it isn't because I can't think of a reason for the feature on the handle, and I guess it would be stainless. Hmm.
 
Yes, you're right, it's a cheese taster. Because it had been put in a toolbox with a lot of woodworking tools, I was puzzled when I first got it. How could you carve wood with something that slender, and such an impractical handle?

But that was back in the days when very few catalogues had been scanned and shared online, and many years before image searching was possible. Now it is easy to show you this page from the relevant Brades catalogue, from 1906

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Interesting idea about the extra bit on the handle, Windows. I was wondering if it was a tack lifter, maybe for cheese securely held inside a packing case, but I think that's less likely than your suggestion.

They are still commercially available, for the same purpose, and yes, stainless steel does seem to be the material of choice, now that crucible cast steel is so hard to find... ;)
 
Windows said:
Would it work as a tack lifter? 1356 in the catalog also appears to have a similar nubbin.
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I thought that at first, but the filed groove doesn't really go back far enough.

Maybe it's meant as something to poke under the cheesecloth, so you can get hold of it and peel it off, exposing the cheese you want to sample?
 
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