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AJB Temple wrote:Looks like a putty knife. For doing old fashioned windows. I have one somewhere (ex my father).
Not sure how it was used, but you could clout it with a hammer.
Lurker wrote:AJB Temple wrote:Looks like a putty knife. For doing old fashioned windows. I have one somewhere (ex my father).
Not sure how it was used, but you could clout it with a hammer.
Actually thinking about it, it might have been for removing old putty.
Lurker wrote:I have got one almost identical to that, very useful tool to have.
They are for splitting wood, imagine like a small axe but you whack the back of the blade with a hammer.
I guess from the days before wall plugs when bits of wood were used. If you have removed skirting or similar in old houses there will be a square of wood in the brickwork where the nail is driven in.
AndyT wrote:New old stock hacking knives, Sheffield made, only £7.00. Get one before it's too late!
Pete Maddex wrote:Nice axe, it would make a good spoon carving axe with a nice single bevel on both sides.
Pete
AJB Temple wrote:Pete Maddex wrote:Nice axe, it would make a good spoon carving axe with a nice single bevel on both sides.
Pete
If it had a bevel on both sides - how would it be a single bevel?
AJB Temple wrote::D So a double bevel then with no secondary bevels. I see what you mean now you've clarified
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