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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: sb on April 29, 2015, 10:14:56 AM

Title: What is this!
Post by: sb on April 29, 2015, 10:14:56 AM
Has an adjustable blade on it
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: PFSchaffner on April 29, 2015, 11:28:53 AM
Box scraper? perhaps with the handle wrong-way-round?
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: mikeswrenches on April 29, 2015, 11:31:53 AM
It looks like a box scraper but with the wrong blade.  Probably? A Stanley.

Mike
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: PFSchaffner on April 29, 2015, 11:39:04 AM
Yeah, should look like this, more or less (from the 1902 White and Van Glahn hdw catalog):(//)
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: Bill Houghton on April 29, 2015, 11:50:06 AM
I've always found it interesting that the tool's called a box "scraper," when it's actually a very small scrub plane.  For those unfamiliar with the tool, it was developed for removing the labels (particularly, I imagine, stenciled on labels) from wooden shipping crates, so they could be re-used.

I've got one; have yet to figure out what else it might be used for, besides being nifty.
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: sb on April 29, 2015, 11:58:38 AM
Thanks for y'all's help
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: amecks on April 30, 2015, 07:36:03 AM
Bill - quote - I've got one; have yet to figure out what else it might be used for, besides being nifty.

Last night on a TV food program they were using a cheese shaver with a pivoting head - it looked just like this tool!  Maybe you need to move it to the kitchen!

Al
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: Plyerman on April 30, 2015, 07:26:06 PM
Tattoo remover!
Title: Re: What is this!
Post by: Chillylulu on May 01, 2015, 09:31:47 AM
Quote from: Bill Houghton on April 29, 2015, 11:50:06 AM
I've got one; have yet to figure out what else it might be used for, besides being nifty.

A garden hoe for fairy gardens?

Chilly