[Woodcarver] Kewl & Unique Set of Gouges

[Steve Klein]

  Hi Mike,
     I did manage to see the pictures .
That is what I have.
Pattern makers tools.

Steve


On 9/17/2010 2:27 PM, Steve Klein wrote:

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> 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.

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> Steve Klein

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

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>> Hey Gang,

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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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>> http://www.woodendreamz.com/images/Interchangeable%20blade%20tool%20set%202.

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>> http://www.woodendreamz.com/images/Interchangeable%20blade%20tool%20set%203.

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>> Keep on Carvin'

>> -Mike B.->

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