Stone tool?

[rusty]

OK, if this thing was bigger, I would assume it is a stone tool of some kind, but it's only 7" long and 5/8 wide at the end, and fairly sharp at the points...So I have no clue????

[BruceS]

I would still say it is a stone too.  I wouldn't have expected Michelangelo to have carved His David with monster tools.  And I'll bet he had much smaller ones too.

[rusty]

Ahh...good point.

I always think giant stone buildings, forgetting sculpture and art...


>Michelangelo to have carved His David ... with tools.

Somewhere, in some little old lady's basement, is a nondescript dusty wood box....
Waiting for a yard sale....

[wvtools]

I always called these feather chisels, but I am not sure why.  My 1896 H. H. Harvey reprint catalog with stone worker's tools calls them tooth chisels.  They call the flared head ones mallet head chisels and the straight/tapered narrow at top ones hammer head chisels.,

[Papaw]

Looks like it would fit in the box described here- http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=4336.0

[Aunt Phil]

Not a cutter's tool, his work is done when the rock leaves the quarry, and that's too small for quarry work.

It's a stonesetter or stonemason's tool.  Hours of joy can be had with that device cutting away marble slabs to accommodate such things as electrical boxes for switches and outlets as well as wall hanging lights.

4 holes with a 1/4" star drill and a decent man can cut an opening for a 6 gang switchbox in under an hour.