Help identifying Grandad's tools

[dw1k]

Hi,

I've been getting Grandad's old tools out, sharpening and getting them onto some wood again, but there are a few that I haven't seen before. Does anyone know what these are? If it helps, I believe were used in anger around the 1920s-1940s.
One I presume is a drill, but just wondered if it had any particular use, or just a general bit, as most of them were auger type bits for a brace or standard twist drills.

Thanks all!

Dave

 

[Inspector]

Tool 1 is a Saw Wrest. Use to set the teeth on saw blades.

Pete

 

[John Brown]

The last thing looks like something I made to try and remove rusted, broken below the surface screws.
Not my invention, I hasten to add, before the IP police swoop.. Suggested by another forum member.

 

[Droogs]

tool 2/3 is a nail puller, scraper 1 is for scraping off hot hide glue and pressing down the veneer when veneering and is called a veneer hammer, tool 1 as per @Inspector , driil looks like a homemade holesaw possibly for getting into deep stuck screws

 

[toolsntat]

Name escapes me but 2/3 is boot and shoe trade.
Cheers, Andy

 

[dw1k]

Oh I'll have to give the Saw wrest a go; have got a few saws worthy of sharpening with the tools, bit of a change of my usual disposable ones.
Never would have found any of those, fascinating about the veneer hammer and the nail remover. I was thrown by the lack of notch with the nail puller, would have expected a groove like a claw hammer.
Thanks all, does mean a lot and really appreciated

 

[Inspector]

I do not think the tool is a veneer hammer unless there is another blade with a rounded edge. I think it is a scraper because of the way the edge is sharpened for removing glue, finishes, mismatch when boards are glued etc.

Pete

 

[dickm]

I'm with Inspector about the "veneer hammer". One of those definitely wouldn't have a blade likely to dig in to the veneer. Not convinced that's a nail remover either. As in all cases with these doubtful tools, suggest something for leather/shoe work. Think I've seen one, but can't remember where or what (it's probably under a heap of dust and shavings in my workshop........)

 

[Jacob]

Yes 2/3 is a cobbler's tool.
That scraper looks handy!

 

[Jake]

Is the drill thing mushroomed on the end? Before my time but pre-hammer drill there was a lot of hitting and rotating things somewhat like that with actual hammers.

 

[joshvegas]

Its a star drill of some kind isn't it? THe hexagonaly thing with a hole in it that looks like a punch is a rawl plug punch. They work surprisingly well.

The cobblers tool is a glazing iron.

And i think the scraper might be a cobblers tool aswell for scraping soles before the next layer? They sometimes use glass.

 

[Thingybob]

I have one of the tool2 and 3 i thought it was for leather work as my dad used to repair his own shoes also shown a key hole saw handle you can change blades with

 

[Stevekane]

Is the drill thing mushroomed on the end? Before my time but pre-hammer drill there was a lot of hitting and rotating things somewhat like that with actual hammers.

Rawlplug tools, but they were solid spikes with three flutes along the shaft,,,brings back horrible memories of plugging concrete walls for pipe clips!
Steve

 

[dw1k]

Huh, there was a shoe lathe in the shed. Never knew he fixed shoes, but must have done!
And yeah, the drill has definitely had some beating on the other end. There were some separate rawlplug tools in the box as well, makes me very appreciative of the SDS+...

 

[morqthana]

Rawlplug tools, but they were solid spikes with three flutes along the shaft,,,brings back horrible memories of plugging concrete walls for pipe clips!
Steve

To say nothing of those little tins full of asbestos plugging material.

 

[Concizat]

No 3 is a home made punch for knocking holes through brickwork in the days before hammer drills.
You get a length of gas pipe and cut some teeth on one end.
Hit the other end with a club hammer whilst rotating it and it cuts a neat hole.
Made and used them myself a long time ago.

 

[morqthana]

You get a length of gas pipe and cut some teeth on one end.

Isn't that copper?

 

[Concizat]

No copper pipe is too soft and would just bend. It was the old mild steel gas pipe we used.

 

[Keith Cocker]

No 1 - Sagger-makers Bottom knocker
No 2 - a Weysgoose

Sorry being silly this morning but I did enjoy Call my Bluff on TV and I remember they were two items that stumped the panel

 

[Thingybob]

No 1 - Sagger-makers Bottom knocker
No 2 - a Weysgoose

Sorry being silly this morning but I did enjoy Call my Bluff on TV and I remember they were two items that stumped the panel

I hereby award you the Stewart Little emoji