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Title: Re: Anyone ID this tool?
Post by: Jim on May 13, 2019, 09:29:28 pm
Quote from: Nick on May 13, 2019, 09:17:37 pm
Think you can get £85 for yours?  :D

I wish!
Title: Re: Anyone ID this tool?
Post by: Nick on May 13, 2019, 09:17:37 pm
Think you can get £85 for yours?  :D
Title: Re: Anyone ID this tool?
Post by: classixs on May 13, 2019, 03:50:28 am
What a cool tool, great score Jim (https://emoji.tapatalk-cdn.com/emoji482.png)

Guess yours is mostly intended for pulling fabric and not so much leather, as those rough jaws would make quite noticeable imprints in leather.
Title: Re: Anyone ID this tool?
Post by: Jim on May 12, 2019, 08:16:58 pm
Somebody was able to do some detective work and and ID them as 'cobblers leather stretching pliers'.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=opera&hs=ibn&biw=2133&bih=1077&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=1qzWXKuPBo-d1fAPg7Ob4Ao&q=cobblers+leather+stretching+pliers&oq=cobblers+leather+stretching+pliers&gs_l=img.12...18669.23995..26177...0.0..0.55.813.16......1....1..gws-wiz-img.......0i7i30.X9K0MMSJj2I#imgrc=cXtbtoZfHq-zPM:


https://www.tooltique.co.uk/shop/vintage-t-temporal-leatherworking-stretching-pliers-cobblers-saddlers-upholsterers/

Title: Re: Anyone ID this tool?
Post by: Scorpion2nz on May 11, 2019, 05:06:52 pm
Quote from: IndianaRog on May 11, 2019, 06:27:17 am
Might be a Burdezzo (sp)...tool for castrating sheep.

Rog

The crimps run the wrong way for castrating
Title: Re: Anyone ID this tool?
Post by: IndianaRog on May 11, 2019, 06:27:17 am
Might be a Burdezzo (sp)...tool for castrating sheep.

Rog
Title: Anyone ID this tool?
Post by: Jim on May 11, 2019, 01:24:44 am
I was at a garage sale late today and they were packing up, this was in the bin to be thrown out as no one had bought it.

Its fairly hefty, even with a 10x loupe I can't make out the makers name. I don't have the slightest idea what industry would have used pliers like these???


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