OneGuyFromBarlick

Leather work? Belts?

A lino cutting knife?

For removing the top of the lead capsules on traditional wine bottles (and a slice of your thumb at the same time!)
Or is it for stripping the bark off willow wands for basket making?

Another piece of tacklers kit. A leather knife. Dad always used one like this for trimming the leather shaft belting. It also came in useful for trimming an ankle clearance on clogs.

Could be used for leather but Wendy has it. Always known as a Lino knife and used for trimming and fitting old fashioned linoleum floor covering.



Here's my old favourite, my stockman's knife. The upright blade is a general cutting blade but can anyone tell me what the left and right blades were for? Both specialised uses.

No takers?

Cheating a little (googling Stockmans Knife) I found a very similar knife for sale (far from cheap). One is a castrating blade (RHS of picture), the other is a lambsfoot blade (LHS). But otherwise I wouldn't have known.

Following Stanley's recent fixation with knives. Does anyone know what a 'Skibouk' is? This reference is taken out of Percy French's poem "Abdul Abulbul Amir" re: Then this bold Mameluke drew his trusty skibouk. Is it a knife or a sword?

Sorry P, can't help with that.

Wondered about castration, but didn't like to mention it in polite company...

If I may slip this one in; it's quite topical.

Dog tethering points on the sides of the planters in the town square.

Pluggy, spot on....
They look like tethering points.

Ian, spot on.

Topical because they were installed yesterday...

What is it?

Gear cutting attachment for a horizontal milling machine ?

Right area but wrong machine.

It's the table on the tool and cutter grinder that can be set up at almost any angle to suit the cutter being sharpened. A very useful tool!
Next for shaving?

Something different. What is it? Where is it? Some forgotten corner near Colne.

Its the Victorian gents urinal on the road into Trawden.

Interior of the urinal. The leaves are an optional extra.



You know what it is but where is it?

Panbiker A good cast iron observation. Got it in one. Now you have only Stanley's to locate!

Sydney?

Embankment, London?

Wendy has it. It's in the shadow of the Harbour Bridge. ( and for the cognoscenti of paint, coated with Micaceous Iron Oxide Paint!) Next one?

Stanley wrote:..and for the cognoscenti of paint, coated with Micaceous Iron Oxide Paint!

Probably sourced from the Devon mine we discussed elsewhere!

Something to get your teeth into. Its one of them there! But What and Where? (Reasonably local)