Mystery tool - can anyone help?

Something for cutting flooring, or starting a cut in the middle sheet goods?

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I saw a vet use one of the to turn a stallion into a…. well you get the idea ;^)

It’s for rolling the kids out of bed in the morning?

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I have one just like it … I thought it was a back scratcher.

-- Odie, Confucius say, "He who laughs at one's self is BUTT of joke". http://woodstermangotwood.blogspot.com/ (my funny blog)

I’m with Doug – I’m guessing some kind of plunge saw. I can’t find it in my books.

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Looks like a knife to gut a hog or steer, Scotland? maybe sheep.

-- MARK IN BOB, So. CAL

That hole on the far end has me scratching my head. Almost like this was made to pivot on a pin and swing the blade into something. It really reminds me of an anti-kickback pawl on a table saw. I’m stymied.

-- Use the fence Luke

Log peavey (tool for rolling logs) for a leprechaun ?

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could be some sort of big can opener.

Sorry. That’s my best clue. I doubt it’s a woodworking tool.

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Trepanner?

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

It’s what my wife threatens me with whenever I go over budget on tools!!!

-- "Give me your poor tools, your tired steel, your huddled masses of rust." Yep, I ripped off the Statue of Liberty. That's how I roll!

it is a caulking stripper , like what you would use to pull packing out of plank seams on a wooden boat or deck seam material—

I think Rob might have hit the nail on the head.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Hmmm…

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

If you were trying to pull out caulk, wouldn’t the teeth go the other way? They look like they push.

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it is used for interviewing people at guantanamo

-- making sawdust....

I’ve seen a similar tool that is used to cut out pieces of hardwood flooring for replacement.

My second guess is that it’s a haggis splitter.

-- Randy, Rustic Artisan, a family tradition. (No PM's - auto-deleted.) - "I am a seeker, not a follower."

I was told by Roy Underhill of the ``woodwright show`` that it looks like an old industrial can opener and with the hole on the end is part of the opener that is missing

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It don’t look like any old butchering/castrating tools I’ve ever seen. The can opener idea seems curious – but the old ones with that overall shape had more hook in the blade. I can’t get a clear idea on scale. How long is this thing?

Speculation here: If the blade pivots then it looks like the blade slipped to the backside of the material then the handle was raised to force the material into the blade. If it don’t pivot then notice the hole in the end – it looks like the whole thing was attached via a pin and was pivoted down into the material.

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What the hell is it?
-JJ

-- JJ...... I guess you could say I'm a 54 year old "juniorjock". — Make things with wood.

Wall puller or similar type application.

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i’m still betting on tall ship construction.. your missing a part that connected to the hole.. a small drop chain with a bar on it.. drop it between two boards then use the teeth to press hemp in???

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It doesn’t look very old to me.

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I vote its for removing a piece of damaged tounge & groove flooring.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

It’s the teeth on the undercut side that has me baffeled. Is there any manufacturer’s marks?

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Hello
I have to come clean here – I have no idea what this thing is and was hoping someone would say ” I know what that thing is; I was handed one of those when I served my apprenticeship to do such and such – I thought everyone knew what that’s for. ” Or something like that.
Just to answer one or two questions – it is 380mm long or 15” and has no maker’s name on it. There is a tool for removing floor boards and it’s called a feather splitter and seems adequate for the job – I bought it with that explanation on it but was not convinced….......

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