8/31/12 Estate Sale

[OilyRascal]

I woke up this morning to an advert. "tools, tools, tools" in an estate sale being held today.  It cost me the first half of the day driving on a sore back, but I did surface a few things of interest. 

I could use help identifying the specific purpose of this.  I assume it is some sort of "threading" tool.  It packs several size needles in the nose.  I'm very curious as to the purpose of the tack in the side, the small groove just below it, and the hole drilled between the tack and the end of the handle (protruding through the butt of the handle)








The second item I could use help with I would call a brass square, but it is fixed at a 45 degree angle.  I can imagine a few uses for it, but I don't understand what it was specifically designed for.



One for the hammer experts.  It weighs 8 ounces, would stand 3" tall, and has a 1-1/4" diameter hammer head.  I would say the side opposite the head is offset at 22.5 degrees





A Bonney torque wrench that has seen better days.



A Stanley No. 146 screwdriver





Marked only "DC-91" - it is 4-1/2" long, weighs 2 ounces, and has 5/8" and 7/8" flat-to-flat openings

[Branson]

Your first item is a stitching awl for, primarily, leather.  There
should be a space for the bobbin under the plate on the back
end.  The thread comes out the hole in the side and around
the "tack."
Next, you have a lovely center finder that I wish was mine.
Third, a cobbler's hammer, sometimes used by cabinet makers
to drive small nails in odd places -- not with the round face, but
with cross pein thingee on the other end.l

[OilyRascal]

Thanks, Branson!  The "center finder" is yours.  PM me your shipping details.

[1930]

Thanks, Branson!  The "center finder" is yours.  PM me your shipping details.

Thats Derek

[OilyRascal]

Your first item is a stitching awl for, primarily, leather.  There
should be a space for the bobbin under the plate on the back
end.  The thread comes out the hole in the side and around
the "tack."

It is apparently "The Speedy Stitcher" sewing awl by Stewart Manufacturing Company, Worcester MA.  It did turn out to have a hollow handle with a bobbin under the plate.

[scottg]

 Yeah they are kind of weird to use, but they do work killer!
I always have to start at the same end myself, (l to r) and work. Plus the starts and endings of the stitch runs are not easy to figure out and get secure,
   but you can sew things you just can't hardly sew any other way.

 I once did 2, 1940's bicycle seats!   The kind that are "all springs"  and just ----so-- comfortable.
 No way I was sewing those any other way. They have both been in service for years now.
  I'd be miserable if I had to ride a modern seat! How do people sit on those hard as a rock stick under your tailbone???
  Or the alternative, wide as a roping saddle? You are suppose to work your legs against with every stroke?   I'd have no skin, in no time.
    They knew what a bicycle seat was once. What it was supposed to be.  Up the 1950's they were decent.
  But all the upholstery is long gone by this time.  If you want one you have to sew.

This sheath was sewed with one too.  Not the most careful job but its aramid bulletproof thread, through almost 3/8" thickness of leather.  That help at all??? heeheheheheheh



   yours Scott

[kxxr]

Cool sheath, the whole thing looks bullet proof. I'd be tempted to paint that white thread Sharpie black.