OK, it's been awhile but I have seen a similar tool like the one on the left in a Shoe Cobbler/Saddle Maker's Shop - - - so I'm going with leather working tools also.
Cool thread, it's been awhile since we had one of these.
-- Edited by Mello Yello on Sunday 1st of November 2009 12:39:30 PM
-- Edited by Mello Yello on Sunday 1st of November 2009 12:39:59 PM
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i dont know what they are. my neighbor found them at a garage sale. they are purdy dang old. hand made and with a good quality hi-carbon steel.they have ben purdy sharp too. i was thinkin maybe used in scrapin hides ou somethin. the curved one looks kinda like an eskimo's seal skinnin knife. i cant remember what it is called. i wonder how to find out what they are. got any ideas?
i dont know what they are. my neighbor found them at a garage sale. they are purdy dang old. hand made and with a good quality hi-carbon steel.they have ben purdy sharp too. i was thinkin maybe used in scrapin hides ou somethin. the curved one looks kinda like an eskimo's seal skinnin knife. i cant remember what it is called. i wonder how to find out what they are. got any ideas?
I think you are probably real close about the tools being used by the eskimos for skinning and scraping hides
This is a close copy,,
NOTICE who did the work?? Were did we fail guys???
-- Edited by Bad Rat on Sunday 1st of November 2009 01:23:42 PM
Bad Rat wrote: NOTICE who did the work?? Were did we fail guys??? hahaha, kinda makes you wonder don't it???
No HI-JACK intended here but this is the "IDEAL" place for this!
There is an old Movie starring Anthony Quinn called "The Savage Innocents". It is about the Eskimos back in the ?30s ?40s maybe? In this movie he portrays a "illiterate Eskimo" with a wife and one of their Mothers living in the Igloo. One of the scenes in the Movie is when the Grandma "old woman" has chewed so many hides, tenderizing them for blankets and clothing that her teeth are all gone so they make her go out into the frozen lake and wait for a Polar Bear to come along and finish her off. Their are many "Shocking" scenes in the Movie and I don't want to ruin it for anyone that hasn't seen it so I will stop right here. I highly recommend the flick and sorry for the detour.
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i saw that movie.its an old one. verry true to life movie.i can imagine it was purdy dang close to the truth for those times too. hey mello, they gave new meanin to laughin! it is a good movie. if you havent seen it its worth a look see.
-- Edited by geezer69 on Sunday 1st of November 2009 02:19:32 PM
geezer69 wrote:hahaha, thats proly the way things were there and then. wow, it wouldnt work out well now. It didn't work to well then either at least not for the Mountie that tool is called an ooloo by the eskimos. was that what you thought it was?? a hide scrapper ????
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yea, but it could have ben used by anyone that cured hides. maybe even buffalo skinners. or even an early packin house. the old whaler cuttin tools were cool lookin too. havent seen any for a long time.allmost like a floor scraper lust bigger with a long handle.
