Anyone know what tool this is?

[Ken Higginbotham]

Could be used to perforate a pattern (like in dress making) then lay the pattern over the cloth and dust chalk over it and the pattern shows up on the fabric - ??

[george wilson]

Another obscure tool solved!! And now,he has a perfectly good tool should he go into bee keeping!!

[Walter Plummer]

Thanks to Paul Atkins it is identified as a bee keepers tool. I looked it up and it is correctly a "spur embedder". Now I have to go find another mystery tool.

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

To me it look like a leather tool. But just a guess...

Perzakly so.

[Chris Kennedy]

Ditto on the pounce wheel. Used for marking lines, probably in leather, to trace or cut.

I showed the picture to my wife and that was her take -- not so much for sewing leather but marking it for cutting.

[Jim Koepke]

Thanks to Paul Atkins it is identified as a bee keepers tool. I looked it up and it is correctly a "spur embedder". Now I have to go find another mystery tool.

I have had a perfect candidate "mystery tool" for over 30 years. It was going to get posted in a different thread. Before doing that, I thought I would search on it one more time. Wouldn't you know, it has finally found its way on to the internet.

Here is the closest patent page:

http://www.datamp.org/displayPatent....88836&id=20135

jim

[Ken Higginbotham]

Looks like a roach clip, or they used to be called that

[Jim Koepke]

Looks like a roach clip, or they used to be called that

A little old for that, first patent was in 1869, about 100 years early.

jim

[george wilson]

Is it a mechanical pencil?

[John Schreiber]

Does the button at the non-working end spin freely? It could be a finger drill such as used by a jeweler.

Never mind, I just read the patent. Doesn't that answer your question? Watches have little circular springs in them. I would guess that this is designed to adjust the tension on one of those springs.

[Walter Plummer]

Jim I like it. A watch key. How did you find the info? If we find enough of these we could make a poster.

[Jim Koepke]

Jim I like it. A watch key. How did you find the info? If we find enough of these we could make a poster.

The name, "John S. Birch" and some patent dates are stamped into the metal. I have looked before, but yesterday was the first time I have found any information.

The internet is interesting that way. It is growing every day and life will be changed because of it.

30 years ago did wood workers from all over the globe spend much time communicating instantly with each other?

jim

[Chris Padilla]

30 years ago did wood workers from all over the globe spend much time communicating instantly with each other?

jim

Possibly...it was just slower.