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7th November 2017, 01:51 PM #1
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What have I got here?
I picked up this E.C. Atkins Indianapolis hardy/ stake tool recently but I can't find anything similar listed in the Atkins catalogs available online.
I've gone through the 1895, 1919 and 1923 catalogs and the Atkins Farm Workshop pamphlet from 1931. There is no mention of Atkins made blacksmithing tools in any of these.
The stem or post is non-tapered unlike most blacksmith hardies and is just over 1-1/16" square and is 1-15/16" long. The overal condition is excellent to unused.
It strikes me as some kind of saw set or swage. Does anybody know the use of this?
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7th December 2017, 05:43 PM #2
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It looks like it could be a swage tool for crosscut saws, but I have not seen one like this before. Maybe it is a bit too large to be that.
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8th December 2017, 05:13 AM #3
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There are 30 Atkins publications to check here:
https://archive.org/details/internat...d%5B%5D=Atkins
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8th December 2017, 06:44 AM #4
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Thanks gentlemen.
I've also looked through their patents and found nothing.
I suspect that it's a setting block. The straight sided shank suggests that it's not intended for use in an anvil hardy hole but rather is designed to be gripped in a vise. I'll keep looking.
P.S., didn't find it in the 1894 cagalog.Innovations are those useful things that, by dint of chance, manage to survive the stupidity and destructive tendencies inherent in human nature.
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8th December 2017, 06:53 AM #5
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It looks like a punch for cutting a (rather big) tooth.
Maybe it came out of a machine at the factory.
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8th December 2017, 07:49 AM #6
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Could be, the stroke into the die would need to be pretty shallow as the sides are slightly splayed. The sides are also as-cast suggesting that if it is a punch there was considerable windage.
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15th December 2017, 01:05 AM #7
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Maybe to set (large) circular saws?
Held in the hand like your second photo (where incidentally the brand would face upwards), and hammer in the other hand ...
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17th January 2018, 03:48 AM #8
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Looks like part of a flat steel
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12th June 2018, 02:14 AM #9
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Most of these bigger manufacturing companies did some tool and die work, I wonder if it is one part of a press tool to punch out or form some item.
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