Smallest spokeshave found at garage sale?

[brett gallmeyer]

So I posted two threads in the general catagory about a gloat I got at a garage sale and a massive gloat i got at my local ace hardware on router bits.. However I thought I would drop by Neadernation and show this "little" find. A pun is definatly intended.

It doesn't have any markings on it. It is a heavy little thing so I can't imagine its a total piece of junk. Anyone have any ideas?

[Rich Luczak]

How do we know your not tricking us with your giant thumb!?!

[Bob Noles]

My guess would be a luthier shave..... ???

[Chris Kennedy]

I'm with Bob. I would guess that it is some sort of instrument maker's tool (which my very quick Google search implied is what a luthier shave is -- learn something new every day).


Cheers,

Chris

[Jim Holman]

Looks like one of the inexpensive ones furnished with an Exacto kit back in the 60s & 70s.

[brett gallmeyer]

just to add, i bought it at a garage sale, the family raised and bread horses. maby its some kind of horse toenail trimmer!

[skip coyne]

Looks like one of the inexpensive ones furnished with an Exacto kit back in the 60s & 70s.

thats my thought also they had a kit with a small plane and spokeshave

[Mike Cutler]

just to add, i bought it at a garage sale, the family raised and bread horses. maby its some kind of horse toenail trimmer!

Uhmm.... Definitely not any sort of farrier tool I've ever seen. I can just imagine trying to get my horse to keep his hoof up long enough to use something that tiny.
I think luthier/violin making is closer than anything else.

edit.. I did a little surfing, cause the x-acto thing sounded a little strange,and by golly ,there is something very close to this on x-acto's web page. The x-acto model XPL7045 spoke shave. Pretty cool. I never knew x-acto made anything other than those scalpel looking knives.

[Paul Williams]

I have one that looks just like that in an X-acto knife set. The small plane also.

[Lucas Bittick]

thats my thought also they had a kit with a small plane and spokeshave

They still make it!



You can see the little thing in the center of the lid.

[Tom Veatch]

Looks like one of the inexpensive ones furnished with an Exacto kit back in the 60s & 70s.

Could be. Assuming the perspective in the photo of the set isn't too wild, and the length of the knife handle in the photois the same as the one I own then scaling the display of the spokeshave in the boxed set and comparing it to the known length of the knive handle gives me a length of the spokeshave in the set of about 3 3/8". It appears that the one in the OP is about 4".

Granted, neither assumption is a proven fact. But, pending further information, I'd have to say that the spokeshave has possibly, but not yet positively, been identified.

[brett gallmeyer]

great job everyone! that was quick!

[Harry Goodwin]

Most pattern makers myself included have nerly exactly this shave made on shop patterns. Lee valley sell three nearly identical. harry