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[ancient1]

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.

[oldgoaly]

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?

[Billman49]

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

[keykeeper]

Yep, for bodywork on cars for shaving down filler.

Heller made one similar, called it the Vixen body file.

[oldgoaly]

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. 

[bear_man]

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.

[Billman49]

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...

[rusty]

Could be for foam, EIFS or surfboards etc (Styrofoam) ?

[ancient1]

Thanks all for the information.  Will post a couple other items I got that are a semi-mystery to me later.