Anyone know what this is for?

[Patternwalker]

I was sorting out a collection of old tools and cam across this. Has anyone seen one before? I thought it could be some kind of rebate chisel but the angled end puzzles me. Any ideas?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

If you were my wife I'd tell you it's a grunge extractor.

 

[joshvegas]

Surely its an awkward screw driver? 90 degrees difference should allow quite a good go at a screw.

 

[toolsntat]

I'd be inclined to go for a drawer lock chisel.
Cheers, Andy

 

[brocher]

It might be something which a tinsmith might use for hammering?

 

[Patternwalker]

I'd be inclined to go for a drawer lock chisel.
Cheers, Andy

Thank you so much, I think you're absolutely bang on! Just the kind of specialist tool my grandfather would have used in his cabinet making.

 

[MikeJhn]

Lead flashing tool?

 

[Jake]

That's for castrating cockerels*.

*It's not. But tradition demands at the tail end of these threads that castration gets a mention (having said that shoemaking hasn't had its turn yet).