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bernieinva

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Although not tractor related they came out of our farm shop. One is photo of something that looks like a knife sharpener except the rod is smooth and also looks like a punch. The other is a pick/screw driver looking thing that the pick retracts and you can see the spring inside of the handle. Pick is solid no holes.
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The first item is used by professional butchers to keep their knifes sharp all day long and is called a steel. Knives are only sharpened after an 8 hour shift, this is used all throughout those eight hours as needed. Not sure if the surface rust on this one has ruined it or not - I'm not a butcher, it might be brought back to a useful life with a power wire brush and a lot of use? But I wouldn't do a thing until I talked to a real slaughter house butcher about it.

Spring loaded plastic pick can't be too important? In other words, I think I can live without one. What ever it does, it's NOT a test light.
 
Yes, the first one is a steel. If it's smooth, it was used a lot before being retired. I have one that my dad used back in the late 1920s as a butcher for A & P and also through the rest of his life as the neighborhood unofficial butchering 'expert'. He was always called upon every time someone butchered a hog or a beef.

His steel is indeed smooth and hanging in my garage.

Stan
 
The lower one could be a self actuating center punch. Depends on what happens when you push the point up against metal and then as far down as the pin will go, and then if it snaps and does a center punch indentation.
 
Second one is a test light missing it's ground wire and maybe it's "guts'. I have it's twin, complete.
 
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