[Woodcarver] Kewl & Unique Set of Gouges

[Steve Klein]

  Hi Mike,
     I could not access the pictures.
They sound like pattern makers tools.  The tools used by pattern makers 
to be used to make the patterns for castings.  Like iron or steel for 
various things like engine blocks,  suspension parts, etc.
     Look at the number on the gouges.  If they do not look right to you 
it may be these.  The number is the radius of the curve.  A #1 is 1 
inch,  a #3 is 3 inch, a #8 is eight inch, etc.
     If so, they must have good steel in them.  They are professional 
tools that where meant to be used every day in a factory.  If they where 
bad,   they would have been discarded years ago.
     I have a set.

Steve Klein




On 9/17/2010 9:37 AM, m.bloomquist wrote:

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> At our weekly Erie Canal Woodcarvers meeting last night a friend brought

> these tools to show me.  They belonged to a deceased uncle who was a cabinet

> maker and they were offered to him.  Not "weird" enough for a "whatzit", but

> thought they'd be interesting to everyone.  The blades are interchangeable

> with a system I've never seen before. The end off the handle shaft is

> tapered and fits into a tapered hole at the base of each blade in the same

> way a violin tuning peg fits into the tuning box of a violin.  Surprisingly

> solid and easy to undo when needed.  The "weird" part about this set is that

> the bevel on all the edges is on the inside.  Is this because they were used

> by a cabinet maker?  Harold and I saw this done on a "V" tool at an antique

> tool booth and thought it was just an "inside" joke for woodcarvers.<G>

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> http://www.woodendreamz.com/images/Interchangeable%20blade%20tool%20set%201.

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