A well built tool is a thing of beauty, but I can't figure out how these were assembled, the “Stanley everlasting” in production between 1910s and early 1940s
Lots of theories in the comments, but it appears to me that there is a ferrule that goes around the shank of the chisel and is formed to the outside of the handle. Someone posted a picture from an old Stanley catalog with a cross-section. The ferrule is shaded black in the picture. My guess is that the chisel shank was straight, without the knob on the end. The wood handle and the ferrule are put on and the ferrule compressed or swaged, then the knob is formed on the end of the shank.
example, South Bend Lathe, Bridgeport Mill... those companies might exist, but similar huge industrial lathes and mills are still in use, and the companies are long out of business
Lots of theories in the comments, but it appears to me that there is a ferrule that goes around the shank of the chisel and is formed to the outside of the handle. Someone posted a picture from an old Stanley catalog with a cross-section. The ferrule is shaded black in the picture. My guess is that the chisel shank was straight, without the knob on the end. The wood handle and the ferrule are put on and the ferrule compressed or swaged, then the knob is formed on the end of the shank.
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If you look closely at the first and third pictures above, you can see the line between the shank and the ferrule.
thanks!
DeleteThat is The Thing Jesse. Sadly we have lost most of those old skills of building or manufacturing anything of lasting value.
ReplyDeleteand the well built things outlast the companies that made them.
Deleteexample, South Bend Lathe, Bridgeport Mill... those companies might exist, but similar huge industrial lathes and mills are still in use, and the companies are long out of business
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