What Is This Tool?

[oconeeprotackle]

Hi guys

I just picked up a toolbox at a local estate sale and it was all leather working tools. I will be selling them on eBay soon, but right now I am trying to identify everything.

Found this. I think it is some type of draw gauge. Fits like a ring. I know that the box had a Vintage Geo. Barnsley & Son draw gauge that has a similar patina on it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Jamey

[HellfireJack]

Australian strander. Makes lace.

[oconeeprotackle]

Cool! Thanks! Never would have come up with that!

[oconeeprotackle]

Posted it on ebay along with the other tools if anyone is interested. Thanks again!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/oconee-pro-tackle/m.html?item=221144717883&ssPageName=STRK%3AMESELX%3AIT&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562

[shtoink]

Aren't these capable of creating a tapered lace? (One end is wider than the final end)

[Trox]

Aren't these capable of creating a tapered lace? (One end is wider than the final end)

No, then you have to adjust the material guide when you cut the lace. That is possible, but very difficult to get a nice tapered lace. The tool is a lace cutter or strander.

[oconeeprotackle]

OK I found a few more tools when I went back to the estate. Getting ready to list them. Can you tell me what this one is. Some type of stitching tool?

http://s1179.photobucket.com/albums/x394/jamey_nichols/?action=view&current=DSCN0431.jpg

[mlapaglia]

I think its for buckeye lacing but I could be very wrong. Someone will weigh in on this.

[bruce johnson]

It is a collar awl. The edges are sharp enough to cut. It is pushed through the leather, the lace is fed into the eye, and then pulled back through and brings the tip of the lace with it. The next stitch the lace is carried forward with the push. Originally used for making horse collars. They can also be used for carrying saddle strings through the tree for repair work. The edges on some are blunted and I have heard those referred to as "drawing awls". They can be used for pulling lacing strings back through a braid like on saddle skirts and rear jockeys without cutting the braid. .

[St8LineGunsmith]

that is a short one

most of the collar awls I have seen have long shanks

[bruce johnson]

I have had them from 8" to the tip up to 18" or so. There aren't dimensions in the old CS and HF Osborne catalogs I have, but going off the perspective of the handle looks like they were maybe 10" or so in the CS Osborne 1897edition. They were used in different trades too. I sold a long one to an old guy who used to work in a mill. He said they would fold the end of a sack over three or four times and then run the awl through pleats as far as they could gather. They'd pull a string or lace back through. It made a sort of running stitch and seal the end. I have seen them sold as "ham stringers" too.

[oconeeprotackle]

You guys have been such great help! I listed one last leather working item last night late. I just guessed. Did I get it right?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Homemade-Leather-Working-Tool-Wood-Creaser-/221146565003?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item337d5cc98b