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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on January 23, 2014, 05:26:47 PM

Title: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: skipskip on January 23, 2014, 05:26:47 PM
This is a tenon bit?

close but no,  it's a .....

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5526/12109441633_62674569d0.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12109441633/)
JAN 176 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12109441633/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr



(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3744/12109521304_1f7e9871ce.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12109521304/)
JAN 175 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12109521304/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr


Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: rusty on January 23, 2014, 05:29:31 PM
Round iron thingy.
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: skipskip on January 23, 2014, 05:33:22 PM
Round iron thingy.

I see you are a wrench collector also 
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: rusty on January 23, 2014, 05:50:19 PM
Oh, heck yes.
But, sometimes, I learn odd things hanging out here.
I don't quite know why or how, but it happens....
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: Papaw on January 23, 2014, 06:21:28 PM
If it is not a round tenon cutter, it must be for cleaning up the bottom of the hole cut for a round tenon. (Papaw is not a woodworker, either.)
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: lbgradwell on January 23, 2014, 06:21:50 PM
Are you sure it's not a tenon cutter? It looks like one to me!

For a ratcheting brace, but still a tenon cutter...

Can we see the working end?
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: john k on January 23, 2014, 07:13:32 PM
Tenon cutter, or hollow auger, think chair spindle ends.  It is hollow right?
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: skipskip on January 23, 2014, 07:25:04 PM
It is hollow ,but the blades are on the face

tenon cutter works like a pencil sharpener?

(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5510/12110664473_4018e57b74.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12110664473/)
JAN 169 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12110664473/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: oldgoaly on January 23, 2014, 07:29:00 PM
pretty good sized one would not be surprised if it wasn't a wheelwright's spoke tenon maker.
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: Jim C. on January 23, 2014, 07:30:50 PM
It looks like a round tenon cutter to me.

Jim C.
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: john k on January 23, 2014, 08:06:51 PM
The tool called a "pointer" which is used before using this one, works like a pencil sharpener.   Many tenon cutters only have one blade, and several are adjustable as to size and depth.   A pointer is shaped somewhat like a funnel.
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: scottg on January 23, 2014, 11:59:20 PM
Yup this is a single size tenon cutter. There are a lot of multi sized cutters and adjustable cutters. This one cuts a single size and does it very very well.
 For when you have a lot of same sized tenons to cut
    yours Scott
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: Mike H on January 24, 2014, 05:31:31 AM
I believe what you have there is a dowel cutter/maker
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: Branson on January 24, 2014, 06:58:20 AM
Tenon cutter or hollow auger is what it's called.  Like Scott says, this one is the sort that comes in different sizes.  The blade (or blades, depending on the maker) cut away the parts that don't look like a tenon and set the shoulder.
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: skipskip on January 24, 2014, 11:32:49 AM
Since things are going so well here, I am adding pics of the rest of the woodcutters box.


(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5480/12120650044_bb1593f6b8.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12120650044/)
JAN 175 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12120650044/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr

from left to right

the tenon cutter w have discussed

an adjustable tenon cutter?

a smaller cutter, but works differently?

and a pointer?

(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2818/12120657034_cdb5017a16.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12120657034/)
JAN 177 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/skipskip/12120657034/) by skipskip (http://www.flickr.com/people/skipskip/), on Flickr
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: scottg on January 24, 2014, 11:51:56 AM
The two solid cutters are tenon cutters for sure. The adjustable one? I just don't know. Looks more like a chuck to hold and spin something, but then I can't see it too clearly.
 
 The pointer is a tool I need. I am having to rough out with a drawknife freehand
 
  Here are the two other common styles of tenon cutter, and what they do.
  Both need new blades. I am working on it.
 I need some tool steel 1" wide and about 1/8+" thick and at least 4" long,
 if you see any scraps laying around............(he begged)
 
 Oh I just grabbed a stick of firewood off the ground, for testing. :)
  yours Scott

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(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/tenoncutter1.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/tenoncutter2.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/tenoncutter3.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/tenoncutter4.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/tenoncutter5.jpg)
(http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/shop%20pix/tenoncutter6.jpg)
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: rusty on January 24, 2014, 03:04:57 PM
>an adjustable tenon cutter?

Looks more like for cutting threads...?

Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: skipskip on January 24, 2014, 07:53:48 PM
>an adjustable tenon cutter?

Looks more like for cutting threads...?

took me a minute to understand this

threads, like pipe? nope not sturdy enough

wood..? OH!!!

like broomhandle threads...

or legs into the bottom of a table  threads
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: rusty on January 24, 2014, 08:03:08 PM
> I need some tool steel 1" wide and about 1/8+" thick and at least 4" long,
See...you should have bought all those broken chisels at the yard sale ;P

like broomhandle threads...
Yes...threaded dowls were very popular for a while, one of the glueless type of  joints

I Don't know that I have seen one with multiple blades tho....
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: john k on January 24, 2014, 11:23:00 PM
The pointer is a neat tool, is actually in the fun realm to use.   Scott, for your new blade steel, use an old lawn mower blade, the price is right.
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: Chillylulu on January 25, 2014, 04:06:03 AM
I have a thread cutter for wood, much more modern though.

It only has one v-shaped blade to cut the thread.

It cuts threads for push brooms, oaint sticks, etc.

Chilly
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: Branson on January 25, 2014, 06:33:12 AM
Yep, #4 is a pointer.  It's kinda hard to make out #2, but it doesn't look like any adjustable I've ever seen.  Those look like one or the other of the two Scott posted.
Title: Re: help a non-carpenter name his tool
Post by: rusty on January 30, 2014, 06:31:07 PM
Also once referred to as hollow augers..which they sort of are...an insideout drill bit...

1873 catalog...lots of sizes....