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Can anyone identify this vintage tool “big awl w/ brass sleeve”

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I got this tool in a bundle from a cobblers tool set... I have no clue what it is... the brass collar slides off and it’s really pointy

 

anybody know?

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I am just guessing, but it looks like someone that you might put heat too.

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5 minutes ago, bikermutt07 said:

I am just guessing, but it looks like someone that you might put heat too.

That was my guess like a burnisher for heels and the brass collars keeps the hot wax from dripping on your hand or something

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Its a vetinary tool. Its for letting the gases out of a cows stomach to relieve colic. Its called a trocar and cannula

You use it to puncture through the side of a cow and leave the tube in place for a while to let the gas escape

see here;  https://www.surgicalholdings.co.uk/veterinary/index.php?content=catalogue&category_id=15&sub_id=247

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpLhXILyAg

 

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1 hour ago, fredk said:

Its a vetinary tool. Its for letting the gases out of a cows stomach to relieve colic. Its called a trocar and cannula

You use it to puncture through the side of a cow and leave the tube in place for a while to let the gas escape

see here;  https://www.surgicalholdings.co.uk/veterinary/index.php?content=catalogue&category_id=15&sub_id=247

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpLhXILyAg

 

That's a surprise! And kind of grody.

@Heespharm,put that thing down and wash your hands.:P

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Lol :crazy:

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12 hours ago, fredk said:

Its a vetinary tool. Its for letting the gases out of a cows stomach to relieve colic. Its called a trocar and cannula

You use it to puncture through the side of a cow and leave the tube in place for a while to let the gas escape

see here;  https://www.surgicalholdings.co.uk/veterinary/index.php?content=catalogue&category_id=15&sub_id=247

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpLhXILyAg

 

That was going to be my guess. 

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37 minutes ago, Big Sioux Saddlery said:

That was going to be my guess. 

Yeah, but I beat ya to it! :P

Now, what the devil is it doing in with cobbler's tools? Amongst a saddler's I can reckon cos these are used on horses too sometimes

BTW, very miniature ones are used on humans to relieve certain ailments

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That would not have been one of my first 10,000 guesses.

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Just 'cos it's old, don't mean it's nice.

My first thought was one of the really heavy awls for saddles, but the sleeve was wrong; now I know it was so, so wrong.

Harry:blink:

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2 hours ago, alpha2 said:

That would not have been one of my first 10,000 guesses.

Where's my like button???

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Proves my theory. Everything I look at has potential applications in leather craft. If I were an alien leather crafter whom had never seen a ukulele I would think, 'My what a large burnisher, and I can sharpen things on those stringy things!'.

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8 minutes ago, Mjolnir said:

If I were an alien leather crafter whom had never seen a ukulele

No, you cannot borrow my uke!

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Reading Fredk explaning what the were thefirst thing that popped in my mind was." All creatures great and small" tv series. The dude was shoulder deep in a cow every episode. Lol And I remember him "venting" a cow in the books a few times. Not sure about in the TV show though. 

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fortunately, when I vent, it's nothing like that at all. But, my hide will be PERFECT!

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This and other similar threads prove that sellers take advantage of leatherworkers  by spicing "tool sets" with unrelated items all the time.

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