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Going through some boxes tonight and re-photographing some dark pictures I came across a cigar box full of knife sharpeners;can openers,and glass cutters.Some of these are combination tools although why they chose to pair a knife sharpener with a glass cutter is beyond my comprehension.
One of the items called a,"Master Sharpener" is a tool for sharpening knives(and possibly scissors)using a pair of guides over a section of a file.I've provided a series of pictures to show how it works.
One of the glass cutters has 6 individual cutting wheels inside the head that can be quickly rotated into position should one become dulled. Another has a tiny screwdriver inside the handle to facilitate removal of the cutting wheel. Still another looks like a folding knife and has a glass breaker(for snapping off small pieces)on one side and an industrial diamond(missing)to cut the glass.
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Some more.
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Cool gadgets. ::nod::
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Nice sharpeners, Ray.
Did you get some glass cutters in there?

Here's one of my favorites. :)
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At one time almost every gadget that was designed primarily to extract money from some sucker, had a glass cutter on it. In my 75 years, I have encountered a few times when I needed a glass cutter, but not all that many.
I know some people have occupations and hobbies where they use glass cutters a lot, but the prevalence of them on the gadgets I mentioned, would suggest that most people were doing little else but cut glass!
I had an uncle that, when I was a child in the early 1950s, had an amazing accumulation of these gadgets. Maybe he considered himself a collector, but he just hung them up on the pegboard in his workshop. He seemed to be utterly unable to resist buying them. Once he took me to a big fair (the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver BC), and we watched a huckster demonstrating the wonders of yet another contraption. Uncle Bud bought it of course! I don't remember ever seeing him use one of these things. I do seem to remember that they pretty much all had glass cutters on them, and that my uncle never cut any glass.
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FRJ wrote: Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:52 pm Nice sharpeners, Ray.
Did you get some glass cutters in there?

Here's one of my favorites. :)
My favorite knife sharpener looks amazingly like yours!
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Thank you, Mr. Chips.
I have said if one had just this two sided stone you would really need no other.

However ........ I have many others of various sizes and grits and complexion.
Man made water stones to Belgian Blue earth stones and many in between.
I like the many options that stones give. A far better sharpening tool than any gadget ever devised.
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This one is my favorite;bought at the flea market across the street from where I live for $15. The cover was broken on it with a large chunk missing that I fabricated a new piece.To change sides,you push in one of the knobs which disengages the lock pin and allows it to rotate.
When I first saw it,I picked it up and turned it over;not realizing the tray was full of lard oil! I STILL can't get the smell of it out of the housing!Must have been used in a machine shop to sharpen tools.
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Nice stone, Ray.
You did a great job repairing that top.
I have one that just sets in a tray. Maybe just a little smaller than yours. Tomorrow.
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kife7knut, your brass French glass cutter. I bought one in the early 1970's at an antique shop. I should still have it and didn't know it could have a screw driver blade inside. I would like to know the age and maker.
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mrwatch wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:53 pm kife7knut, your brass French glass cutter. I bought one in the early 1970's at an antique shop. I should still have it and didn't know it could have a screw driver blade inside. I would like to know the age and maker.
I would also like to know the age of it.I found the screwdriver quite by accident when I noticed the handle was a little loose.Unscrewed it and discovered the screwdriver with a tip just the size of the screw holding the wheel on.
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Some pictures of my cased combination oil stone. Sometimes I forget I have this stuff, ::facepalm::
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FRJ wrote: Wed Feb 10, 2021 8:22 pm Some pictures of my cased combination oil stone. Sometimes I forget I have this stuff, ::facepalm::
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I agree, Ray, here are a few more.
These are great for sharpening large kitchen knives on.
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Some how I missed this thread when knife7knut posted the commercial combination whet rock. In my father in law’s meat business, there were knife sharpeners with 3 different grits of carborundum in a similar green container that was in an oil bath. They were rented or leased from the company that supplied meat saw blades.
Thanks to member Salina for resurrecting this thread. ::tu::
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treefarmer wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:49 pm Some how I missed this thread when knife7knut posted the commercial combination whet rock. In my father in law’s meat business, there were knife sharpeners with 3 different grits of carborundum in a similar green container that was in an oil bath. They were rented or leased from the company that supplied meat saw blades.
Thanks to member Salina for resurrecting this thread. ::tu::
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I bought one of those at an auction a couple of years ago. The deceased was a retired butcher. I have it out in the shop now. One of the stones is missing. I need to find a replacement and get it up and running. Mine is green too.
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