What is it?

Uglydog

Uglydog

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Got this in a Kennedy chest from my uncle.
Evidently he was a Tool and Die Machinist for three years after which he was moved to management.
I never knew that he had ever touched a machine.
I was even more excited that some of the remaining contents had my great grandfathers initials stamped!!!

He stated that remembered making this tool, but doesn't remember why or its intended purpose.
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Daryl
MN

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Perhaps it was for holding thin stock for engraving, lettering or some secondary operation?

Looks to be limited to about 5/8 wide, 1/2 wide and 10 long.

Is the underside also flat, or is it a "V"??
 
Nope, flat both sides.
He was mystified.

Daryl
MN
 
could it have been used to check round bar or shafts to see if there is any warp or difference in the diameter?
 
Daryl,

It has me puzzled also. It looks to be well made and possibly surface ground. Maybe a special grinding fixture for sharpening joiner knives? Are there any counter-bored slots on the opposite side?

Dick
 
Sure looks like some kind of fixture , but for what ? I have a bunch of nice hardened and ground bars similar to that but with no slots . I used them to stretch a 6" Starrett level out to whatever length I needed . The great thing about this tool is , your grandfather's initials in it !
 
No this one was made by my aging uncle.
He just doesn't remember why.
There were a few items like a thread gage that grandfathers stamp.
Both sides of this fixture are exactly the same. Is ground, I'm assuming it's hardened. But haven't wanted to take a file to it...
It's well made.

Daryl
MN
 
Daryl,

It's obviously hardened. There is no way to get that kind of finish and keep it all these years on a piece of metal if it was soft. To make that piece, harden it, then grind to finish is a work of art that not many can do, including myself. A long slender piece of steel like that is not easy to grind and keep it straight and parallel, even if the material is stabilized. Lots of shimming on the surface grinder to keep it straight and last lap it to get that luster finish as it is now, it's a work of art! Lost work of art to modern times!

Thanks for sharing Darly,

Ken
 
Are the slots such that a mounting bolt head would be below the surface? If so I really could have used something like that to work on a buggered gib I had. Would also come in handy for cutting the eyebrow relief I cut in the same gib for some quick locks I added to it.

Would help to know what he did there as it might have been something very proprietary to the equipment.
 
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