What is this tool?

[Dangerous_Dan]

These things keep showing up at the scrap yard so I grabbed 2 of them.
It has a blade and some adjustment screws for holding whatever it's cutting?
What is it?

[pigman]

The first two look like  a DURO 731. :  Sorry I just couldn't resist. I have no idea what they are used for.

Bob

[DanG]

Hmmmm.  Looks more like a 791 ta me.  The 731 had smaller thumbscrews, and was painted green.

[Sprucegum]

If'n ya put yer thumb in there an' turn thet screw a bit ya could get a answer real quick  ???

They look kinda like a thing-o-majig I seen for makin' leather shoelaces.

[woodbowl]

Big Nell® makes a tenon cutter, sorta' reminds me of the big bell shaped pencil sharpener configuration used to make them.

There is an antique tool also that makes tenons for cowhide bottem chairs. It's used in a brace & bit.

[Ironwood]

Woodbowl,

I have several of each that you had mentioned (both the Bignell, and the antique tenon cutters) These are neither. I have a drawer in my storage area marked "funky holders" these would fit in there for sure. I had something similar which I later used to hold the handles of the saws on my homemade Alaskan mill. It was like they were made exactly for the application. These are very close to those although yours look to have a more specific (deticated) use than mine, Dan.

             Reid

[rebocardo]

You being "north east", whatever it is, it probably comes from this company

http://durodyne.com/opening.php
(kicking tunes  :D  )

http://www.durodynecanada.ca/canada/

[rebocardo]

Had another idea, how about a tool to cut off the top of a barrel or something and that is the cutter head that attaches to another tool?

[Phorester]

I don't know, BOB......, it could also be an upside down 137  ORUD

[woodbowl]

It has a blade and some adjustment screws for .....

Is it a blade sharp enough to cut wood or is it like a piece of carbide for cutting metal?

[Tim L]

Looks like a wire stripper to me !

[Dana]

Hay bailers use a knife setup to cut the twine. This could be a twine or rope cutter for a manufacturing/packaging operation.

[Dangerous_Dan]

The blade looks like High speed steel and is somewhat sharp.
I was thinking you could put a cork in it and cut the taper spinning the cork by hand. Probably not right but what else could this be for?

[customsawyer]

That there is a lathe you turn by hand just watch out for the lathe cramps. ;D

[Ironwood]

I have seen large machines that cut wooden dowels in unlimited length. IT could be part of one of those machines. They typically adjust to cut differing diameters. Reid


http://www.owwm.com/MfgIndex/Detail.asp?ID=270   Try this link. Reid

[Murf]

Duro is the name of a very old pump company, they make every kind of pump imaginable, and have for a *very* long time.

Maybe this is some accessory for a large commercial pump, leather gasket cutter for the leathers of a big municiple water pump(s) ???

[scgargoyle]

Are you sure that isn't the gadget a rabbi uses for... well, you know?

[Slabs]

That looks a lot like my valve rafacing tool for small engines.  If a valve were installed in the screw-clamp instead of the bolt and the missing crank/handle were affixed onto the valve stem, the valve could be reafaced by turning it against the cutting tool.  The thumbscrew would control the pressure of the valve face onto the cutter.