Free 186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook:  
Get 2,000+ tool plans, full site access, and more.

User Tag List

Page 1 of 2 1 2 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 12

Thread: What is this tool?

  1. #1
    Jon
    Jon is online now Jon has agreed the Seller's Terms of Service
    Administrator
    Supporting Member
    Jon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Location
    Colorado, USA
    Posts
    25,446
    Thanks
    7,925
    Thanked 38,618 Times in 11,284 Posts

    What is this tool?

    What is this tool?


    186 More Best Homemade Tools eBook

  2. #2
    Supporting Member mklotz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    LA, CA, USA
    Posts
    3,433
    Thanks
    357
    Thanked 6,378 Times in 2,116 Posts

    mklotz's Tools
    Don't have a clue so I'll guess.

    It's an upholstery hammer used for driving decorative tacks that secure cloth coverings. The built-in scale allows the user to place the tacks evenly for good visual appearance. The problem I have with this guess is that I've never seen furniture with the tacks set three or four inches apart.

    It also looks a bit like a jeweler's planishing hammer but I can't think of any use for the scale in that use.

    2000 Tool Plans
    ---
    Regards, Marv

    Home Shop Freeware
    https://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz

  3. #3
    Jon
    Jon is online now Jon has agreed the Seller's Terms of Service
    Administrator
    Supporting Member
    Jon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Location
    Colorado, USA
    Posts
    25,446
    Thanks
    7,925
    Thanked 38,618 Times in 11,284 Posts
    A good guess, but for once - incorrect

    Not for upholstery or jewelry.

  4. #4
    Supporting Member mklotz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    LA, CA, USA
    Posts
    3,433
    Thanks
    357
    Thanked 6,378 Times in 2,116 Posts

    mklotz's Tools
    Well I may not be very good at guessing but I'm a whiz at searching...

    It's a locomotive inspector's hammer...

    https://www.mwtca.org/whats-it.html
    ---
    Regards, Marv

    Home Shop Freeware
    https://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz

  5. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to mklotz For This Useful Post:

    PJs (Feb 5, 2017), Toolmaker51 (Feb 4, 2017)

  6. #5
    Jon
    Jon is online now Jon has agreed the Seller's Terms of Service
    Administrator
    Supporting Member
    Jon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Location
    Colorado, USA
    Posts
    25,446
    Thanks
    7,925
    Thanked 38,618 Times in 11,284 Posts
    Argh, I need to get better at this. Are you searching by image? I can obfuscate it a bit if necessary for future posts.

    Also, I can select tools that haven't yet been identified on other sites.

  7. The Following User Says Thank You to Jon For This Useful Post:

    PJs (Feb 4, 2017)

  8. #6
    Supporting Member mklotz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    LA, CA, USA
    Posts
    3,433
    Thanks
    357
    Thanked 6,378 Times in 2,116 Posts

    mklotz's Tools
    All I did was type this...

    "what's it" + hammer

    into Google and the first hit is the one I listed.

    ("what is it" + hammer was tried first and didn't yield any useful results.)

    How does one search by image? That sounds like a useful thing to know?

    Tools that have not yet been identified doesn't sound like a good thing. How will you be able to tell if I'm right (or wrong for that matter)?
    ---
    Regards, Marv

    Home Shop Freeware
    https://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz

  9. #7
    PJs
    PJs is offline
    Supporting Member PJs's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2014
    Location
    Northern CA
    Posts
    1,841
    Thanks
    8,333
    Thanked 1,118 Times in 718 Posts

    PJs's Tools
    Boy Howdy, Marv! What was that 2hrs 10 minutes with a best guess in between. Great link to all those other odds and sod tools...very cool. Liked the Printing Pens and those Crab Pliers (that's what I think they are).

    Good Luck with that Jon! I'd also appreciate knowing how to search by image if you feel up to it.
    ‘‘Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.’’
    Mark Twain

  10. #8
    Jon
    Jon is online now Jon has agreed the Seller's Terms of Service
    Administrator
    Supporting Member
    Jon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Location
    Colorado, USA
    Posts
    25,446
    Thanks
    7,925
    Thanked 38,618 Times in 11,284 Posts
    To search by image, go to Google Image search: https://www.google.com/images

    Then click the camera icon on the right of the search bar. Then you can either paste in an image url, or upload an image.

    So, in the future, we would either have to obfuscate the images against the similar image tool, perhaps by overlaying a grid on them or something like that, or just use tools that are still genuinely unidentified on the web. If we use mystery tools that have not yet been identified, then in many instances we simply won't be able to positively identify the tool, which I suppose is fine.

  11. The Following User Says Thank You to Jon For This Useful Post:

    Moby Duck (Feb 10, 2017)

  12. #9
    Supporting Member mklotz's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2015
    Location
    LA, CA, USA
    Posts
    3,433
    Thanks
    357
    Thanked 6,378 Times in 2,116 Posts

    mklotz's Tools
    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    To search by image, go to Google Image search: https://www.google.com/images

    Then click the camera icon on the right of the search bar. Then you can either paste in an image url, or upload an image.

    So, in the future, we would either have to obfuscate the images against the similar image tool, perhaps by overlaying a grid on them or something like that, or just use tools that are still genuinely unidentified on the web. If we use mystery tools that have not yet been identified, then in many instances we simply won't be able to positively identify the tool, which I suppose is fine.
    Wow, that is simply über-kewl ! I'm sitting here mentally kicking myself for never having experimentally clicked on that camera icon before. I can't tell you how many times in the past I could have made use of that feature.

    I tried both options - pasting an image URL and uploading an image stored on my computer - and it was able to find them easily. Just imagine the software sophistication necessary to do that !

    It does make playing "What's this tool" more problematic. If you do an overlay you would have to be careful not to obscure details that might help identification. I wonder if you cropped a bit of the image from between the overlays and searched using that if Google would be smart enough to still find it?

    I've never been religious but if somebody put a gun to my head and said I have to choose something to worship I suppose I would choose Google.:-)
    ---
    Regards, Marv

    Home Shop Freeware
    https://www.myvirtualnetwork.com/mklotz

  13. The Following User Says Thank You to mklotz For This Useful Post:

    PJs (Feb 5, 2017)

  14. #10
    Jon
    Jon is online now Jon has agreed the Seller's Terms of Service
    Administrator
    Supporting Member
    Jon's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2012
    Location
    Colorado, USA
    Posts
    25,446
    Thanks
    7,925
    Thanked 38,618 Times in 11,284 Posts
    We can crop, overlay, or even add additional objects into the image, like a logo or generic tool image. However, any photo manipulation we can do to the image can be undone. For now I think our best bet is to search the various forums and blogs for the best such mystery tool discussions, and post about the ones that are still genuine mysteries. If someone can, through clever searching, determine the identity of the tool, than we can consider that to be valid detective work, and a perfectly legitimate solution to the mystery.

    I don't remember when I first started using the similar image search, but I will say that the camera icon's purpose eluded me for a while. It seems to say: "This is an image search", rather than "Click me to search by image".

  15. The Following User Says Thank You to Jon For This Useful Post:

    PJs (Feb 5, 2017)

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •