This is a tenon bit?

close but no,  it's a .....


JAN 176 by skipskip, on Flickr




JAN 175 by skipskip, on Flickr

Round iron thingy.

Quote from: rusty on January 23, 2014, 05:29:31 PM
Round iron thingy.

I see you are a wrench collector also 

Oh, heck yes.
But, sometimes, I learn odd things hanging out here.
I don't quite know why or how, but it happens....

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.)

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?

Tenon cutter, or hollow auger, think chair spindle ends.  It is hollow right?

It is hollow ,but the blades are on the face

tenon cutter works like a pencil sharpener?


JAN 169 by skipskip, on Flickr

pretty good sized one would not be surprised if it wasn't a wheelwright's spoke tenon maker.

It looks like a round tenon cutter to me.

Jim C.

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.

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

I believe what you have there is a dowel cutter/maker

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.

Since things are going so well here, I am adding pics of the rest of the woodcutters box.



JAN 175 by 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?


JAN 177 by skipskip, on Flickr