Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: ancient1 on August 14, 2014, 02:18:49 PM
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I just got some old wood working tools from a friend and I am about to show my ignorance by asking what da heck is it? It's a Plane! It's a Bird! no, it's ... ????
The length is 14 inches. Suspect it is some type of special wood plane/scrapper/shaper.
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Well the wood handle is very similar to handles on autobody solder or leading files, but the teeth??? looks more like they maybe for shaving ice?
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I'd go for a bodyshop rasp, for epoxy filler rather than solder... would also serve well as a sculptor's rasp for wood or soft stone
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Yep, for bodywork on cars for shaving down filler.
Heller made one similar, called it the Vixen body file.
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I have a few Vixen files, they are not for plastic! most of the bondo files are more like cheese graters, as they were called back in the day.
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I've seen tools like this generally called a "Sure-Form" (at work) for quick-shaving down sheetrock "mud." Some have actual files installed and some have stuff like the cheese grater mentioned above. This material is new to me, but I reckon the idea still holds.
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Stanley UK make a similar tool called a Surform, c.f. Bear-man's Sure -Form - various sizes and shapes of blade with a 'cheese-grater' form of tooth...
I believe the original was made by a company called Simmonds see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surform Stanley bought the rights c 1956...
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Could be for foam, EIFS or surfboards etc (Styrofoam) ?
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Thanks all for the information. Will post a couple other items I got that are a semi-mystery to me later.