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    Posted 6 years ago

    jiphone
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    I have this old tool and have been searching in vain to find out what it is. It came from a lot of tools included with the purchase of an old lathe.

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    1. afterthought, 6 years ago
      It looks like a plug cutter for wood. It would cut the plugs then the slot in the side is where you would pry the plugs out. plugs would be used to fill drilled hole for screws.
    2. fhrjr2 fhrjr2, 6 years ago
      Not exactly a plug cutter but it can make a plug. It appears to be a hollow auger dowel cutter. You would cut down square stock slightly bigger than the outside diameter of the tool. Then turn this onto the square stock to make dowels to pin wood together without using nails or screws, only dowels. Like making a mortise and tenon joint then pinning it with dowels to hold it in place. You may find another similar looking tool that goes along with this. My set had the dowel cutter and a second tool for cutting threads on the dowel to make wooden screws, then a third tool to make the inside threads in the hole that will receive the wooden screw. There were also deburring tools made that were quite similar in appearance. I see yours is marked Irving. That company is well known for making quality produces.
    3. jiphone, 6 years ago
      I was thinking about both of those options, but it's only about a 1/4" to 5/16" OD so the dowels would only be about 3/16". But a dowel cutter seems t be the most logical so far

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