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  • 1.  mystery toole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 20 days ago

    Anyone know what this is and what it is used for?



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  • 2.  RE: mystery toole

    Posted 20 days ago
    Looks like a lathe tool.

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  • 3.  RE: mystery toole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 20 days ago
    It’s hard to tell, but my guess would be a key easing tool. The pointed end for the balance rail hole and the spade end for the bushings. A side view would help.

    Wim
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  • 4.  RE: mystery toole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 20 days ago

    Wim -  You get a 'C' for Courage, for being willing to guess, but I doubt it.  (Note: I also don't think Chris C's "lathe tool" is correct, and YES, he also gets that  'C')  It would be helpful, or at least interesting, to see a side view.  Working assumption is that the other side looks the same. Knowing the actual dimensions might also help guide the conjecture.

    Fred Sturm - Is there any reason to suspect this is, in fact, a piano tool?



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  • 5.  RE: mystery toole

    Posted 20 days ago

    That sounds like an excellent assumption, Wim!



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  • 6.  RE: mystery toole

    Member
    Posted 19 days ago
    It's a marking knife recently descrnded from a Japanese woodworking maerker/awl.
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    Jim Bode Tools makes something very much like. 

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  • 7.  RE: mystery toole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 20 days ago
    Depends on the dimensions -- the rounded pointy part looks tapered (?). Could be some kind of easing tool (like for a balance rail hole from long ago before arrowhead-shaped tools). Also could be as simple as a center-marking tool for locating a drill. While it's pretty elegant for that, old craftsmen were proud of their tools.

     Again depending on the scale, it also looks like a mandrel for mounting oboe tubes when the cane is being tied on. Lovely tool, though.

    Bob Davis






  • 8.  RE: mystery toole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 19 days ago

    It is a marking tool. It is intended to cut a fine line in wood -- when used with a straight edge -- that is much more accurate and defined than a pencil line. This one is a bit more elaborate as it also has a pointed awl that can be used to mark centers for drilling. 



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  • 9.  RE: mystery toole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 19 days ago
    It’s exactly what Del said. I have one like it but mine is all metal. The one in the photo would be easier on the hand with that nice rosewood handle in the middle.
    ~ jeannie

    Jeannie Grassi
    Registered Piano Technician
    Island Piano Service
    206-200-0279
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  • 10.  RE: mystery toole

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 18 days ago
    Many thanks! This was among a set of vintage tools donated by Schaff Piano to the PTG Foundation Museum, and Lucy Urlacher, Milton Horne and I were working on cataloguing it yesterday. 

    Here's another tool that was puzzling. The shaft is about 1/8" thick, with a square cutout in the flattened end. We speculated it might be used to do something like capture the damper wire as it leaves the wooden lever, so as to be able to bend it at that spot using fingers, but then why such a long shaft? Perhaps to be able to get past a bunch of player stuff, and not have to dismantle? Anyone seen one and know the actual answer?
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  • 11.  RE: mystery toole

    Posted 18 days ago
    I made a tool exactly like that for timing upright dampers.

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    Chris Chernobieff ( pronounced chur-no-bif )
    Lenoir City, Tennessee 
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