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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: oldgoaly on May 05, 2018, 12:58:01 PM

Title: No idea what it is.
Post by: oldgoaly on May 05, 2018, 12:58:01 PM

pics show everything, can not throw it away never know when you might need it! Got to be part of something but what?

Title: Re: No idea what it is.
Post by: Bill Houghton on May 05, 2018, 03:25:06 PM

"part of a zig-zag rule" is too obvious, so I won't say it  :smiley:

It could be something like the simple clamps guitarmakers use when gluing the purfling on a guitar/other instrument.  Stewart MacDonald's current versions look like this:
(http://img2.stewmac.com/product/images/18409/StewMac_Spool_Clamps_Set_of_6.jpg)
but they were traditionally made by the craftsman, looking more like this:
(https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=90391&d=1344961812)
I've seen some discussions of making your own that refer to hole saws for cutting out the "jaws."  I imagine, before power tools, that the jaw shapes were more varied, chosen by the fastest manufacturing method; as the Stewart MacDonald picture shows, you need a lot of them.

Title: Re: No idea what it is.
Post by: oldgoaly on May 05, 2018, 04:00:18 PM

I will have to try that see how they work.
Thanks Bill!

Title: Re: No idea what it is.
Post by: wvtools on May 05, 2018, 06:09:29 PM

Dealing in old tools, this type is the kind I am used to seeing.  I have not posted a photo in awhile.  I must be doing something wrong.  I got it to insert as a link, but not as just a photo.

http://www.wvtools.com/images/ebaystore/162482f.JPG

Title: Re: No idea what it is.
Post by: lptools on May 05, 2018, 06:28:36 PM

Nice!!!!!

Title: Re: No idea what it is.
Post by: oldgoaly on May 07, 2018, 07:00:42 AM

Yes it works!   going to clean it up a little since it has a good use!
But here it is in action, note the clean workbench..... for me that's clean!
this isn't my main workbench just a small one in the shed with pedal and treadle tools. The piece being held down will be a strip of trim for a Penthouse bar radio from 1934, still need to find the liquor bottles, found some shot glasses, and of course the radio needs capacitors. Never plug in a old radio!

Title: Re: No idea what it is.
Post by: Northwoods on May 07, 2018, 09:10:16 AM

Quote from: oldgoaly on May 07, 2018, 07:00:42 AM

Yes it works!   going to clean it up a little since it has a good use!
But here it is in action, note the clean workbench..... for me that's clean!
this isn't my main workbench just a small one in the shed with pedal and treadle tools. The piece being held down will be a strip of trim for a Penthouse bar radio from 1934, still need to find the liquor bottles, found some shot glasses, and of course the radio needs capacitors. Never plug in a old radio!

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