Japanese Leather working tools ?

[chuck123wapati]

3rd pic on the right a soldering iron tip without handle and an electric soldering iron very old. pic 4 is a doozy all I can think of that I could use them for would possibly be to temporarily hold up one end of a stud or board so one person could do the job of two for example setting floor joists or some such.

[Rahere]

The curved awls are also shoemaking, some welting techniques use side-sewing to reduce exposure of the underside of the sole to damp. Every hole wicks water which rots the thread.

[Trox]

The lasting pliers most certainly have a makers mark to it. Looks English or German, but so many made these. Just because the box is found in Japan, the tools doesn't have to be Japanese. The awl handles looks to be English beech wood, pattern is similar to Geo Barnsley. You can hardly find a shoe maker shop without any of his tools. Yes the tools looks to be own by a shoemaker. Saws looks Japanese style, would have been used to make wooden sandals and last's. What's look like a pricking iron is a distance maker, used to guide an awl to uniform distance by laying it flat on the work surface. Shoemakers used these, but it also could be use to spread glue. Would perhaps been a little dirtier, traces of glue etc. I see sheet metal shears, for cutting soles perhaps. Some repurposed feeler gouges (car mechanical/machinist tools) looks like distance makers too. But the photo is to blur to tell. Those draw markers might have been used to measure the lenght of a foot or copy a pattern on to leather. There are heal and sole creasers that only a shoemaker would buy. Take some close up of makers marks on them for more info.

Tor