Yes, the ones I've used have had.
Mary
Yes, the ones I've used have had.
Mary
I said old. :-) a few have said some type of cutters...I hardly thin they will cut anything with a solid body. This is more a crimping tool if I was to hazard a guess.
You've just deprived George of his coconut :-)
Owain
The coconut still stands till the resulting item has been identified...I thank you. :-)
These could have been specifically made for small canvases?
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They may not be very effective at cutting tough items but they will be conspicuously less successful at doing just about anything other than cutting.
So Geoff what do they do to a sheet of paper?
Crimp what? Blades coming together in a V will mangle or slip off if they don't cut cleanly.
Tin,Copper?
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They might indeed cut thin tinplate or copper sheet if the material is not too tough but they can't roll a lip, or otherwise press 2 sheets together except at the point of contact where the prongs mate up like scissor blades.
If you'd ever stretched a canvas, you wouldn't even _consider_ that this tool was any sort of canvas stretcher. Canvas needs to be evenly pulled, to keep the grain straight, which is why a very broad-jawed tool is used.
In message , geoff writes
First thing I was reminded of were these:
Wasn't there one on Antiques Roadshow or one of the 'Flog your heritage for peanuts over a lunch-hour boot sale in the Attic challenge' a while back? Victorian baby food masher ISTR.
In message , Mary Fisher writes
10/10 for stating the bleeding obviousIn message , George writes
Now, that's a novel idea
In message , Roger writes
As I said in the original post, I'm forwarding it from UKRM where everyone's equally stumped
I don't have it, so I don't know
In message , bof writes
Yes, someone posted that in UKRM
it seems a bit over engineered for that
In message , geoff writes
Seems like someone actually knows (whether tis true or not dear reader ... dunno)
"Thin metal (copper/brass) tool to segment the edge of a lid, to fit into a boiler type affair, for permanent joining...if you know what I mean?
This is the right answer (ish) its for joining two equal diameter tubes by forming a crimp in one of them so it will slot inside the other "
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First suggestion possible. Second no chance.
There is no clearance between the blades. It will cut (or not as the case may be) rather than deform.
It would have to be a bloody great tube to get more than one blade inside it and using the tool that way couldn't have the claimed effect. There are tools to swage out pipe ends but I am sure they look nothing like this tool.
I think Bof had it right. They are probably early shredding scissors. Whatever they are their designed purpose can only have been to make multiple cuts in thin material.
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