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That is a watchmaker's lathe with collets - looks like it has all the parts
That knife and sheath are made in a Scandinavian style, like a Swedish leuku knife or a Finnish puukku. The leather sheaths are made like that so they form a vacuum-suction hold and the knife won't fa...

It is a goffering iron for small ruffles and pleats (quite old). You take the solid cone out, heat over a fire, then stick it inside the hollow cone, then rub/iron the fabric against the heated outer ...
that is a Siegley Combination plane, pretty old (1900-ish) and valuable to some collectors.

It appears to be a piece of sectional sewer cleanout rod that someone flattened the end of to make that snagging arrow-head looking shape (good for grabbing roots, ropes, etc.) see "Patent for section...