Stanley Tool Identity

I've tried in vain to identify this Stanley tools age, use and value. So far it's split between woodworking, plastering and auto body lead work. My guess is lead work. Can anyone here give me definitive answers so I can move this to a new owner or relegate it to a dark corner of my tool box.

Thanks, Howard Dennis

 

Send it to me and I'll figure it out!

Are there ANY numbers stamped on it??

 

Looks like "Vixen" File for lead. No Idea of worth, but my deceased Brother in law was an old bodyman, and some of the old tools are worth quite a bit.

 

Dean! Welcome to the HAMB! You'll like things here, sure there are lots of Hot Rods but a lot of other interesting things as well. I think that may be a lead working file, but it may be a plaster crown moulding tool as well. Lots of old houses with big crown mouldings were moulded on site plaster creations.

 

Thanks Bob and Y'All , I 've had good help here in the past and probably should have tried here first. The only thing stamped on it are:
Stanley
SW
Made In USA

 

Welcome to the HAMB Dennis!

If you go to the sister site "garage journal" you might get some answers- lots of tool guys on there.

Hey, where are you in GA?

 

Thanks Mac, I'm surprised at your "handle" down here. Tell me if you've ever heard this " Y'all Ain't from around here , are ya?" I'm originally from NY but live in Byron, Georgia now.

 

Barrel rasp.?

 

Haven't had too many troubles with it, but every once in a while I still get a, "Well bless your heart"...

 

Welcome to GA!
That ain't a vixen blade file, that I do know, cause I've used them back in the 60s on the job @ the old Fisher Body plant in ATL.
Vixen file has curved teeth with the end of the teeth trailing to the rear so as to allow the lead filings to exit the teeth and not load up the teeth.
The lead joints were normally done in a booth with an extraction type ventilation system and the workers in an air supplied hood. They used disc grinders.
Any repair work done involving lead after the booth work was done using files and hand sanding blocks so as to not ****ter lead dust all over the place. Don't see hardly any lead joints in cars today.
So I don't know what that tool is, but it ain't a vixen blade file for finishing lead joints.
Dave

 

Just wanted to thank everyone for their help in finding out what I found. Here's what a tool forum dug up:

"This is a No. 694 Half Circle File Holder for a "Vixen" file for auto body work. You will find it in the 1939 Catalog #139. Tool not included in Walter's book. Do not know value, sometimes this type of holder brings good money, mostly of limited interest from my observations."

Courtesy of Peter Evans at Sawmill Creek Woodworkers forum

Howard Dennis

 

OK, I can accept it being the holder for a vixen blade file. That would explain the straight across grooves in the base, allowing more flexibility to bend.
Dave

 

Maybe my picture is too small, the teeth or grooves are curved.

Howard Dennis

 

Could be used for both. Curves on barrels, wooden wheels or metal work depending on cutting surface. Cant tell by picture, but there should be some sort of adjustment device.

 

Hey,

The tool you've pictured is in fact, a file holder for a lead shaping file!

I purchased one at a swap last year for $15.00. I can't recall running across a panel shaped like it, other than reverse crowns in early Corvette doors, but I'm sure they are out there!

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