Just curious what you would actually call it.....
(fits a 1" hardy hole)

Anyone ever use one for edging knifes/chisels/peens?

Interesting fuller. Are the dies the same angle?

Naw, it'd be a LOT more work shaping a bevel by driving it into a fuller. It'd be a lot easier and faster to just draw it down. Even finish shaping would go faster with a grinder or even a file.

I have a couple wild guesses but can punch so many holes in them you could read bill boards through them so I'll hang out and see what someone says.

I'm sure someone knows what it's for.

Frosty The Lucky.

Happy New Year,

I would call it, Interesting. Now you have to figure out what you could use it for. Comb for thick Hair?

Neil

I got one at an auction during an hammer in and was told it is for caulking horse shoes.  Each slot is different size for the different size caulks.  It holds the caulks while you drive the shoe down onto it.  I've tried it and it does work so it's a caulking fuller in my shop.  Some Caulking vises I've seen have some similar built on top behind the jaws.  I'm presuming most know what caulks are for. 

Greetings Ashton,

I have aquired many things in the past to include 2 similar bricks like yours. One has a open area under the form . From what I have read and researched they were used to reshape picks and some plow parts .. I have never found anything written or pictures just guesses. Maybe someone will chime in with more info .. 

Forge on and make beautiful things

Jim

My first thought was used to make a " fluteing iron" (sp ?)..... But, I think to flat on top.        Dave 

Wether that particular block is for welding to calks on I can't say for sure. Looks the part. 

Calks, are traction aids, originally for brick/cobble streets and ice. Heals are turned up but not the toe, a bar with two points (vagly like a staple) is driven across the toe web of the hot show (the points holding it in place) and then the assembly is fought to welding temp and the toe calk welded on. With out a roved block the calks get mushed during the welding cycles, that's ok for streets but not for ice

thanks for the info everyone!

-ashton

Adaptive text is worse than my spelling, and the system laughs at me and plays keep away when I try to edit.

Would be worse than doing it by hand for picks---think of how the metal gets formed driving it into that.  Upsetting a ridge above it that would then need to be hammered down.    Looks like the calking fixture on foot vises designed for horseshoe work to me too.

TP.. 

I thought they were for calks also but never seen one with any evidence of forging in the face.. The slots were for bending .. IMO.. 

Forge on and make beautiful things

Jim

Calking vise slits are open at the end ? 

You have a calk swage for various dimensions of shoe stock. The (toe) calks are then brazed on.

"Skip welded" not brazed. You don't need the die for brazing, it keeps the calk from deforming when you weld.