Thread: What is this tool? PRIZE FOR THE WINNER!

to me it looks like a old chisel that some one didn't want to part with when the handle broke off and kept using it i could be wrong thou

I am not an expert but it looks like one of those chiesels used for caulking wooden boat hulls.

Cheers,
Sam

Originally Posted by sam63

I am not an expert but it looks like one of those chiesels used for caulking wooden boat hulls.

Cheers,
Sam

Sam,
what's a chiesel?
just joking. thanks for the info guys.
-ry

A 'Chiesel' is a lo-cal cheezel, not as much artificial colouring, less salt and no preservatives.
Also taste like crap.
I have also seen one of these tools at a secondhand shop in Maffra Vic, the owner has no idea what it is either and won't sell it, he is inclined to think it has something to do with boat building.
Maybe Christoppa can be of assistance.

Ryan,

I am not as interested in the chisel, (or chiesel or cheesel) as the bench it is sitting on. Did you make that? It looks pretty fancy.

Rocker

More pics of the bench please!!

Dan

I am not as interested in the chisel, (or chiesel or cheesel) as the bench it is sitting on. Did you make that? It looks pretty fancy.

I was wondering how long it would take?

It doesn't look like "one of those chiesels used for caulking wooden boat hulls" (caulking iron). Just looks like a badly flogged handle-less chisel or slick to me.

Mick

Originally Posted by journeyman Mick

It doesn't look like "one of those chiesels used for caulking wooden boat hulls" (caulking iron). Just looks like a badly flogged handle-less chisel or slick to me.

Mick

Yep, definitely not a caulking iron, wrong shape for starters.

Looks very much like one of THESE except it's been run over by a bus and bent as well, or used for opening 44 gallon drums.

Cheers,

P

hiya guys
I'll post pictures of the bench when it's finished. I included some cool japanese timberframing joinery. who knows when it'll be finished though considering that I have a 1 year old toddler. . anyway, back to the slick. I think i'll take a leaf out of bob smalsers book and fix'er up. i'll post pictures when it's done (I can rehab the slick at work) as well.

have a good one
-ryan

Ryan

Looks like a timber framing socket chisel, possibly a slick (it is hard to tell its size from the picture. In my book a slick needs to be greater than 2" in width). Could be a Buck, Witherby, ??? Someone has hammered the cr*p out of it - not bothered to add a handle, just mashed on the socket. I'd be surprised if you could renovate it as is. You will need to cut off the mashed bit first.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Hard to be certain w/o knowing the size, but it looks to be an old abused framing or firmer chisel, not a slick. It even looks to have beveled sides.

Shipwrights bent them like that to flatten long keel timbers in plact to fit the floors. Here's one just like yours on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...109704229&rd=1

Slicks are often 3" wide and have a crowned topside....used for large-scale paring and not chopping like the framing chisel.



Here's a crowned, 3" slick with a 24" handle next to the two 2" socket framing chisels in the article.

Thanks for picking up the typo mistake everyone. You sure are better than Microsoft Word when comes to spelling mistakes Then again, since I have started using Wordprocessors, my spelling has gotten even worse.

Sam

Originally Posted by Rocker

Ryan,

I am not as interested in the chisel, (or chiesel or cheesel) as the bench it is sitting on. Did you make that? It looks pretty fancy.

Rocker

Rock,
Forget the bench, what's left of it!
I'd be more worried about the Square/Dovetailed headed termites.
Just look at the Dovetailed shaped holes they left.

Count