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Thread: Ade and Butcher multitool?
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20th October 2015, 08:00 AM #1
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Ade and Butcher multitool?
I'm back!
While I was away, one of my B&B hosts was a kindred spirit as a woodworker. He had recently bought a "box of tools at a car boot sale for a few quid" and, laying in the bottom of the box, was a "handle that rattled"....
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Further inspection showed that the top screwed off and, inside was a range of (fairly crudely) forged tools....
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which fitted into into the turned brass collet....
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to make a rather clever and (possibly early?) multi tool?
The brand name was Ade and Butcher, Sheffield,
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but when I Googled that name in my current zonked state, all I got was anyone who sold Sheffield steel knives to Adelaide butchers?
There'll be a few random threads like this because, having turned off mobile data while travelling, I couldn't find a way to extract and use any pics I took on my mobile phone.
(no doubt I will now receive advice on how I could have done this!)
nearbyflettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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20th October 2015, 08:13 AM #2
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Fletty, a quick Google certainly isn't very forthcoming on 'Ade' & Butcher, but a Wade & Butcher were Sheffield razor makers - perhaps the 'W' has gone missing from your multitool? Could this have been a sideline, or an advertising gimmick of theirs?
Cheers,
PS - don't think I'd like having to crosscut a 4 x 2 with that saw blade!
IW
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20th October 2015, 08:29 AM #3
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Thanks Ian, and good call!
I'm wondering if any of our under utilised forum turners and metalworkers could get together to make advertising gimmicks for the 'turning-and-forging-challenged' forumites amongst us?
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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20th October 2015, 01:45 PM #4
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Welcome back.
Yep in future turn the WiFi on your phone on same process as if in a motel using a laptop, and upload from there make sure to disconnect and turn off again.
Like the tool ..........so I got some real nice Blackwood off cuts recently would they do for handles?
edited- A jigsaw blade could be used instead of a forged one.
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20th October 2015, 04:46 PM #5
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I don't know about that particular brand but that type of tool wasn't uncommon and I believe made by a few different makers . There is always a handful of them at the HTPAA tool sales and have compared some and there are obvious differences in shape and size etc. to lead me to to my earlier deduction.
I have one myself someplace.…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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20th October 2015, 05:17 PM #6
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Welcome home Alan,
Your shed will have been wondering if you'd gone for good with the length of this good holiday; but you've redeemed yourself by adding to your stock of tools...very nice sir.
Cheers, Peter
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22nd October 2015, 12:26 PM #7
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Alan
I think that may have been the fore runner to the modern multitool (Leatherman, Gerber and cheap knock-offs etc.)
Love it.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
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22nd October 2015, 06:24 PM #8
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Alan I did a search for "antique multi tool"
http://thebluebottletree.com/antique-jewelers-tools/
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