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Thread: Mystery tools -What are they?
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23rd April 2012, 02:23 PM #16New Member
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G'day Bluegum30
The one in that article is, like it says, a sailmakers palm. There is no provision for pulling the needle. The Collar Makers Palm is a much sturdier tool. As you can imagine working a big needle and waxed thread through heavy leather needs a bit of grunt. Horses for courses.
Cheers, Simon.
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23rd April 2012, 04:28 PM #17
Hi Simon, welcome to the forum. Lurking for 2 years? That's impressive restraint.
And it took a Collar Maker's Palm to get you out of lurk mode... equally impressive.
Whenever the HTPAA has a "whatsit" it sometimes seems to be a bit of a running gag, that any otherwise unidentifiable tool is classified as "unusual leather working tool" seems like as far as this one is concerned they would be right.
Regards
Ray
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23rd April 2012, 06:17 PM #18New Member
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Procrastination is my middle name
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23rd April 2012, 09:29 PM #19Senior Member
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Without sounding like a smarty pants especially after the horse had bolted I was thinking that tool #2 was something used for bootmaking, just had a 'vibe' about stitching leather, but that is about as close as I was going to get.
When I croak I hope that it is mentioned that I kept my tools oiled until the day I died.
However, in the words of John Lennon: 'Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans'
Things get on top of of good people, even though it is sad, I don't think your fiance's late father had formulated a plot to render the Sutton split dies to be useless.
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23rd April 2012, 09:50 PM #20SENIOR MEMBER
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Yep, I know what you are saying. The old fella's health wasn't the best for the last couple of years and he had that much stuff tucked away, he had probably forgotten he even had them.
Like my own father, he was born during the great depression and as a result they didn't like to throw anything away. Unfortunately that meant there is/was a lot of plain old rubbish with a few pearls mixed in with it.
One of the downsides to all this is the amount of cockies that have been living under the house (and as its an old place, in the house as well). I can now qualify as a mass killer.. Geez I hate them.
bollie7
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24th April 2012, 01:44 PM #21Deceased
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''Like my own father, he was born during the great depression and as a result they didn't like to throw anything away. Unfortunately that meant there is/was a lot of plain old rubbish with a few pearls mixed in with it.''
So true , and those genes are still flourshing today and the effort to exterminate them seems to have had no effect at all.
Simon the link about the palm tool i put up i thought about the missing part too,seems that there is a few different models, interesting that the one you put up is a naked model was wondering if that is how you used them or did they get a leather covering for a professional user.
Not rubbish to a woodie, but this is the tidy portion of my shed.
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24th April 2012, 07:29 PM #22New Member
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mystery tools
G'day Bluegum30
Thats the way they are. I sent a picture in reply #14 with one in my hand. You're also holding an awl and a needle in the same hand. Not hard when you get used to it. The other one with the strap stays on your hand when you're playing with all that sail cloth.
Thats a nice stash of timber by the way.
Cheers, Simon.
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