Need help identifying a tool(might not be wood related)

Hi, The clamp and 1/4” rod is part of an indicator set. You clamp it to something and the indicator mounts on the rod to true your work. The base is part of a surface gage. There is a 8” to 10 ” rod goes into the base and another clamp with a marking rod at the end. If you want to see one google surface gage.

Gary S

And a danged well made one at that.
Bill

-- bill@magraphics.us

Do you think it’s home made? I can’t find a brand or model number anywhere on the thing.

The indicator clamp looks like cast steel. It most likely came with a set. The surface gage base is hard to tell from a photo. Surface gages are traditionally one of the projects you make when you go to school to be a machinist. Along with parallel clamps and 1-2-3-blocks. So it could be craftsman made, but not all of them are marked by the manufacturer either. When someone made their own they normally marked them with their name.

Gary S

There is a very light dotted engraving on the bottom of the base. If its handmade it’s very well made like the other poster said, it looks professionally made. I was looking on eBay and it looks like some of the Lufkin designs. I have no use for it, do you think it would be worth any money to sell it on eBay?

I was thinking of sandblasting it to clean the paint and rust off to see if there are any markings, but might ruin the value if there is any.

Think I may have found it…

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item20c36f38aa&item=140717799594

Edit: Found another

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item3366b33c63&item=22076635453

Looks like maybe a Starrett? Prices are all over the place so its probably a crapshoot, but will probably list it tomorrow. Does this have any use in woodworking?