For marking circles?
It is a long scribe?
Looks like a plane tote attached to an arm and made into a compass-type marking tool. It has to be craftsman-made for some unique job.
A cutting gauge,I believe.
I have no idea, but that's a nice table top.
It looks like a panel gauge with a tote added to make it easier to control the movement while marking, but the fence appears to be missing.....
James
"Uke is always right." (Attributed to Ueshiba Morihei)
It's variously called a Panel Gauge or a Veneer Cutter. Some have blades in them & some have marking pins. It works like a regular marking gauge only (usually) much larger.
Also called a "slitting gauge". It's missing its fence; the hole at the end was probably used for hanging the tool on a hook. Graham Blackburn describes it on page 20 of the May 1994 issue of Popular Woodworking:
"The big cousins of the cutting gauges are called slitting gauges. These often have a stem as long as eighteen inches or more, fitted with a commensurately beefy stock. The end of the stem housing the blade is usually fitted with a handle similar to that of a jack plane. This is not merely a convenience for a large and otherwise unwieldly gauge-type tool, but is a necessary requirement for a cutting edge that needs a certain amount of pressure to be applied over the blade. To facilitate forward movement while this pressure is being applied, better models are fitted with a small wheel or roller directly under the handle."
Your endgrain is like your bellybutton. Yes, I know you have it. No, I don't want to see it.
notice the roller on the bottom of the handle so you can put lots of pressure down to sometimes slit thin drawer bottoms.
Jr.
Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
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Its amazing how much slitting woodworkers of the past did. Its much quicker than sawing and there is much less wasted material as shavings on the floor. All of Stanleys combination planes eventually included a slitting blade and after using the process several times it becomes a habit. Some of the things use a slitter of one type or another are; slitting banding to width for inlay work, and after making a new style slitting blade similar to a thin skew angle chisel, slitting the inside edge of a rebate, slitting the first couple of passes for dados, and for accurately removing a narrow strip from the edge of a slightly too wide piece prior to edge jointing.
Jr.
Hand tools are very modern- they are all cordless
NORMAL is just a setting on the washing machine.
Be who you are and say what you feel... because those that matter... don't mind...and those that mind...don't matter!
By Hammer and Hand All Arts Do Stand
Yup- it's a handled slitting gauge missing its fence. These are not terribly common but they do come up from time to time. Many are craftsman-made but some were made and marked by planemakers. Here are pictures of a few I've had:
A really nice craftsman-made example
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More Pictures Here
and this professionally made example:
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More Pictures Here
Josh
Thanks to all who replied. Joshua, it looks exactly like the slitting gauges you posted. What confused me is the presence of the little wheel in the bottom of the handle. It is unclear to me what benefit the wheel provides.