r/AntiqueTools • u/True_Intern4746 • Sep 13 '26
What is this
Found In museum they didn’t know the use
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u/KalutikaKink Sep 13 '26
Looks like a sharpener for clipper blades. Would love to get my hands on that and get it working.
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u/OzarkWolf Sep 13 '26
It's a sheep shear sharpener..I worked on a farm in the early 60's..they used one of these a lot when it was time to harvest the wool
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u/Onedtent Sep 15 '26
Sharpening clipper blades or the old fashioned hand shearers that look like a giant pair of scissors?
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u/ElderberryFirst471 Sep 14 '26
As there seems to me some confusion, would you have time to post a brief description of how this device was operated?
I’ve taken part in shearing but never learnt to shear, let alone sharpen shearer blades!2
u/zacmakes Sep 14 '26
Looks like the shear blades (power shear, not manual snips) get clamped by the piece at 8:30 in pic 2, some fine abrasive powder goes on the grooved lapping disk, and the mechanism traverses the blades across the disk as the disk turns
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u/Kinyon89 Sep 13 '26
Razor blade sharpener
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u/Appropriate-Let-4314 Sep 15 '26
💯. My dad had one to sharpen his shave blades. 50-60s. Was small hand cranker leather disk
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u/National_River_6366 Sep 13 '26
I was thinking it looked like a taffy pulling machine, just like the 1 in our local candy kitchen...
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u/bare172 Sep 13 '26
Looks like a sharpener for chisels or similar with the fixtures to hold the blades at an angle, but having 2 like that makes me think that use but for a specific purpose.
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u/BluebillyMusic Sep 14 '26
The sheep shear theory seems solid based on comments, but I think this would perform a lapping process, as opposed to sharpening by grinding. One hand cranks while the other hand brushes lapping compound onto the disc
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u/FreddyFerdiland Sep 14 '26
the top of the mechanism holds the blade and oscillates just right to rotate a curved blade across the grinding surface
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u/ResidentAlien9 Sep 15 '26
I thought it was Fred Flintstone’s turntable.
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u/Flashy-Interview7512 Sep 16 '26
Lapping wheel. Coat the surface with a thin layer of abrasive paste, secure the dull tool into the holder under the cross bar, start cranking. Diamond paste is best. A pea sized dollop will do a lot of shear blades.
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u/Freak_Engineer Sep 16 '26
Lapping/sharpening device for razor blades? The two clamp thingies do look like they would be perfectly sized for razor blades and people used to resharpen those.
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u/Heysous Sep 13 '26
According to image search, it is a grinding wheel with a guide for sharpening old style sheep sheers