What is this Tool?

veneer cutter or marking gauge

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

Looks like a leather tool for making belts or srtaps.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

I think you nailed it TopamaxSurvivor. Its a C.S. Osborne “leather draw gauge strap cutter.”

There are several of them on ebay.

Thanks!

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I wonder if C.D. was related to this family

C.S. Osborne & Co. (Incorporated) New Jersey, USA, Manufacturers of Saddlers’, Harness Makers’, Leather Workers’ and Leathercraft Tools, Catalogue reprint, publisher information unknown.

Well I see i’m a little late.

-- Tim: Remember, if it doesn't say Binford, someone else made it.

Hey, Blake, I’ve got a couple of those!! The new Palo Alto wooden ones are a lot better.

-- Thos. Angle

veneer strip cutter ,
maybe for leather too ?

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

LEATHER

-- Only the Shadow knows....................

Cool looking tool, are they valuable? Cool collectible anyway….......

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

Another mystery solved.

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yes its a leather strap guage used them many times growing up. My grandfather was a saddle maker in oklahoma. He had a shop at the tulsa stockyards. The shop has moved now but is run by his grand sons.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

My father worked in a old fashion sawmill in northern Cal. and the equiptment was run from a central shaft with leather belts of various widths and this tool was used to cut leather belts. cool tool Ford Mike

I never saw a tool like that before.

-- CJIII Future cabinetmaker

The C. S. Osborne Co. is very much alive and well. They manufacture all types of leather tools. This draw gauge may well be worth something more because it probably pre-dates C.S. Osborne. The U. S. Cavalry owned tons of these which were used by company saddlers. You can see a large collection of these in Sheridan, Wyoming at the Don King Museum at King’s Saddlery on Main street. There are also large collections of other leather working tools and saddles. If you happen to be in our area, don’t pass it up. It’s great and it’s free.

-- Thos. Angle