Thread: Another tool identification question.

Originally Posted by artful bodger

This one is a beauty, it is 1 inch and 9/16 wide. It works an absolute treat when roughing down square sectioned blanks and as mentioned it can cut just like a skew chisel. I bought this one in 1980/81 from "The Woodturning Centre", which used to be in Mosman in Sydney. It really needs a longer handle for the log type blanks. A job that is on my list of things to do.
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Serious looking tool there, Artful!

I expect it would do a good job on planing cuts once those logs are roughed down.