Mystery tool!

[John Fortiner]

That tool looks like a device to put a small "goove" in the side of the
shank to allow air and extra glue an escape route when gluing a hammer onto
the shank.
Simply insert the shank and let the screw make the groove in the shank -
with either a straight line of a twisted line which can be produced by
turning the shank as it is in contact with the screw tip.
 
John Fortiner
Billings, MT.

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From: A440 Piano Service [mailto:a440 at bresnan.net] 
Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 10:09 AM
To: PTG List
Subject: Mystery tool!


Puzzler?
 
Hello list,
 
I found this tool in a box of tools given to me.  I'd like to know what it
is.  A hammer shank fits all the way through each of the holes
longitudinally, and the screws are perpendicular to those holes, as if the
screws are meant to hold the hammer shanks in place.  (to what purpose?)
And why is there a diagonal slot sawn into the side, intersecting each of
the "shaft tunnels"?
 
Is this a useful tool?
 
Thanks,
John Dorr
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