What tool is this?

[CAL]

I have been looking through a few old tools I inherited and I can't decide what this if for. Its in a boxs mostly containing planes and I wondered if the hole is to hold a thin plane blade??? Not sure - Anyone recognise it?

I'm pretty sure its joinery related as it has my Grandads initials in it which all of his tools from his apprentice days have.





Then this is a scrapper / spreader for something - looks like a blunt brass blade:

 

[Stew]

Is the second one a veneer hammer?

 

[CAL]

Thats a good call, could well be.

 

[Mesquite]

I seem to remember something similar in my old woodwork teacher's tools

It had a blade that was L shaped with the cutting edge at the end of the horizontal part of the L and the upstroke went through the hole where it was held in place with a wedge.

What it was used for I can't remember though

 

[crosslandkelly]

It's a router, missing blade and wedge.

Modern version. http://www.oldtools.co.uk/tools/Stanley_Router_No._271.html

 

[Stew]

I seem to remember something similar in my old woodwork teacher's tools

It had a blade that was L shaped with the cutting edge at the end of the horizontal part of the L and the upstroke went through the hole where it was held in place with a wedge.

What it was used for I can't remember though

Rebating on a curved surface?

 

[Mesquite]

It's a router, missing blade and wedge.

Modern version. http://www.oldtools.co.uk/tools/Stanley_Router_No._271.html

Now you say that Colin I can remember being told it was used for that.

This is the style blade used in it.

 

[Haggis]

Over here those old style routers, wooden or metal, were quite unflatteringly called "an old woman's tooth".

 

[crosslandkelly]

Now you say that Colin I can remember being told it was used for that.

This is the style blade used in it.

That's the one Steve. I haven't used one since I was an apprentice.

Over here those old style routers, wooden or metal, were quite unflatteringly called "an old woman's tooth".

I've heard it called that too.

 

[ozzy1977]

I have the more modern metal Stanley version of the hand router, still use it from time to time.

 

[ozzy1977]

But as Colin said the first one is part of a router and the other one is a veneer hammer.