K Effective

Well-known Member
So this thing has been floating around in the tool box forever. HSB and co. made stuff under the Rev-O-Noc brands, darn near everything: cooking cast iron, rifles, knives, baseball gloves, golf clubs, woodworking tools, etc.

But I have never figured out what this is (no,smarta$$, not the ruler). It seems cast, as it has lines in the middle, but is lighter than iron. Feels more like an abrasive. And why the oval-ish shape?


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Wouldn?t be a knife hone/ sharpening bar?

Dad had a broken piece that looked like about 3 inches of that material......

Paul
 
like has been said more then likely its a sash weight inside an old window box to help lift old wood frame windows up should be a way to tie a rope to it then the rope went to a pully and then back to the window
 
Scythe Sharping Stone. They were also used a lot in stained glass work.

You can still buy them. [b:c305a09c42]Studio Pro Scythe Stone[/b:c305a09c42] is made like the one you show.
 
It is not a window weight- it is much too light and no hole to tie to. We had weights in the original windows here.

I think MuleMeat hit it on the head- we have several old scythes here, and it could be used for knife sharpening, as well.
 
you are right. A sythe had a curved blade and tool needed to be rounded to keep just the edges of a flat stone from having to do all of the work. Before string trimmer, much trimming was done with a sythe and the worker carried this tool in his hip pocket. My spell check tells me there is no such word as sythe, It rhymes with cry
 
From the picture that is my guess also.
Used a scythe a good bit as a youngster and
we had stones laying around and probably
still do.
 
"They were also used a lot in stained glass work."

That's comical. I've had one like that for years, must have picked it up in an auction lot somewhere. I never knew what it was supposed to be used for (other than obviously a sharpening stone of some sort) but I did use it many times to take the sharp edges off a piece of glass after cutting it so the glass would be safe to handle.
 
Sorry Grizz but that is NOT a sash weight . I have about 40 sash weights that came out of the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah, Nevada when they remodeled it back in the late 1970's , besides it has no hole to tie the sash cord to it .

Doc
 
Dad carried one in his back pocket. He'd make what appeared to be a certain number of swings, then turn the scythe "blade end up" and make just a couple of swipes with the stone. It just took a few seconds, and it kept the cutting edge razor sharp. His scythe is hanging in my shop, but he's the last one who used it, and he died in 1962. There are several scythe stones around here.
 
The ones I have laying around has a course grit on one side and a finer grit on the other..

Used them to keep a sharp edge on axes and brush cutters.. Never did want to try sharping a knife with one for they are to course.
 
I'll have to look if this one has two different sides or is equal. It is pretty dirty. I have swung a scythe to cut weeds/brush from the ditch bank, but now use the sickle bar mower. It is still work, but much easier.

Don't worry Grizz- we all can't be right all the time. You had a chance to learn something new today, we all should be so lucky as to do so every day.
 

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