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   BruceS | Aug 06, 2006 09:19pm | #1

   Lay  out tool for box joints ??  A guess.

   Well you got my curiocity up.  Went on a search and found out that it's a watch band gauge, no kidding.

   Work Safe,  Count to 10 when your done for the day !!

   Bruce S. 

    

   
   

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   Edited 8/6/2006 3:22 pm ET by BruceS

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   Steinmetz | Aug 06, 2006 11:10pm | #2

   Had to laugh, 'SNORK!'
   A good friend of mine (Carpenter)knew I collected antique tools and refurbished them. While at a tool auction, Donald saw this unique looking plane and just had to buy it for me. When he presented it to me, I fell into a fit of laughing and guffawing.....'SNORK'!

   I tried to explain to him,what his 'plane'really was, and that it wasn't even a wood working tool.

   He became really peeved and insisted I was wrong, and that it was indeed a plane,

   Rather than lose a good ole buddy, I said, I was only kidding, when I told him whatI thought it was,,,

   The Brand name escapes me now (25 yrs later,)but I'm still in contact with Donald. I can't break his heart, but I use it in the summer to make.....

   .... SNOW CONES 'snork'! Steinmetz.

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   forestgirl | Aug 06, 2006 11:25pm | #3

   Was it one of those big things that looks like a scraper but isn't??  I think I have one of those, ROFL!!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   mwenz | Aug 07, 2006 12:05am | #4

   That...or a plane made to shave ice. I forget what they were called, but they did make a plane for that.

   Take care, Mike

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   Steinmetz | Aug 07, 2006 03:41am | #5

   Jamie, Brand name Gilchrist It's cast iron (Galvanized)(shaped like a boxy block plane) The top is flat and it is hinged at the top rear.
   After 'planing'/shaving/scraping over the top of a huge block of ice, the ice particles/snow fill the interior of the brick shaped box by way of the throat.The street vender flips the lid and empties the snow into a cone shaped paper cup. With a deft motion he/she forms the heaping pile of crystals
   into to a domed crown .On a hot summer day, to any kid, this is poetry in motion. One's salivary glands become aroused with anticipation of the cli... er, finale.(Or 'topping off') . That crowning glory,is much like a beautiful sunset or technicolored rainbow, as the vender drizzles on the flavor/flavors of your choice,
   using one of about thirty glass soda pop bottles of exotic sugary syrupy flavors. As a final gesture, she inserts a thin straw.

   The bottles are topped with those little hinged 'jiggers' used by bartenders. For what it's worth, my favorite is coconut . Steinmetz.Edited 8/6/2006 8:48 pm ET by SteinmetzEdited 8/6/2006 8:54 pm ET by Steinmetz

   Edited 8/6/2006 9:52 pm ET by Steinmetz

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   Steinmetz | Aug 07, 2006 04:58am | #7

   Jamie, get up off that floor and pay attention
   I am attaching a photo of the ice shaver, It is presently available on e Bay

   Edited 8/6/2006 10:00 pm ET by Steinmetz

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   Steinmetz | Aug 07, 2006 04:33am | #6

   I recently aquiacquiredtrainge looking tool. I thought I could figure out it's purpose I photographed it from all angles and can upload the shots directly to my TV. BUT alas, can't recall how to upload it into this $#%^computer.

   I,ll describe it..... All steel;about 6-1/2" long. At the rearward end is attached a steel ring about 3/4" around. Somewhat akin to a nut cracker.
   It consists of two steel bars hinged at the forward end.
   so the two legs (one shorter)can be opened (like a nut cracker)to insert ??

   The two jaws have 3 sets of two each half circled holes that come together to form three sets of figure eight openings when the bars are closed. Also there is a keeper that slides toward the front and wedges the tapered legs to capture and hold three different sized ???

   Methinks it't a wire drawing tool or a wire fence twister/puller
   maybe a lineman's copper wire drawer- splicer. No name, no manufacturer. No Dice! Steinmetz.

   Appears to be hand forged..

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   BruceS | Aug 07, 2006 04:59am | #8

   Sounds like one of those Bull catchers to me.  You tie a rope on the ring  and shove it you know where ! And then hang on for a ride.Work Safe,  Count to 10 when your done for the day !!

   Bruce S. 

    

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   Steinmetz | Aug 07, 2006 06:30am | #9

   NO! LMAO Those things have two balls to clamp into his nostrils Steinmetz.

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   forestgirl | Aug 07, 2006 06:45am | #10

   Yep, we have a couple of those bull things.  I love the ice shaver.  Cool!  Not what I have, though, much neater.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   BruceS | Aug 07, 2006 03:15pm | #11

   Geee.  Have you never seen one of those "gag gift" bull catchers ??  It's a 3 foot long X 3/8" round steel arrow with a ring on the end.Work Safe,  Count to 10 when your done for the day !!

   Bruce S.