Ball1975 Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 I found this bar in my late father-in-law's shop. It could date back to his father who owned a landscape supply company in Seattle, or his wife's father who was in construction in eastern Washington. Researched on-line but couldn't find anything (too many Soderfors anvils.) It is 12 inches long by 1 and a half inches wide nd both long sides have 45 degree taper. Any ideas as to what it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Steel sample? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Welcome aboard Ball, glad to have you. Soderfors is an industrial city in Sweden so just having the name on a product doesn't narrow things down much. Yeah, you'll find mostly anvils here, funny that. Perhaps the best known product from Soderfors is steel and if it was made of Soderfors steel it cost more. What you have looks like it's wedge shaped in the pic. Perhaps used to secure dovetail joints. Might have just been a piece of their best steel stock. I don't even see an indication of which company made it. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball1975 Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 20 hours ago, Frosty said: There is a stamp to the left of the words. I will try to clean it up a bit an see if it adds to the puzzle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 1 minute ago, Ball1975 said: see if it adds to the puzzle. ? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ball1975 Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 10 hours ago, Frosty said: ? Frosty The Lucky. I was able to clean up the manufacturer's mark on the bar. Maybe this helps identify what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Anyone else noticed how it resembled the key on the fly press being restored in a different thread? Might be for a "similar" use... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 That was my first thought, a key for a large steam hammer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Key is about as good a guess as I can make. Kind of what I was thinking when I thought it looked a little tapered. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kozzy Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 Although rare to find these days, beveled edge flat bar and the same in tool steels used to be pretty common. Both single beveled edge and double beveled edge were available. There are still some sources in medium carbon flat bars but I was too lazy to search much deeper. You'd typically use something like a double beveled ground piece of tool steel flat stock to make your slide base in something like a 4-slide forming machine...easier to buy the precision ground piece and mount tooling to that than to make your own. So my guess is this is originally raw steel that never got used to make something rather than "something" in itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Seems to be stamped a lot for just being stock... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn II Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 It might not be "something" in and of itself. What I mean is that it could be part of a tool, or other object for that matter, much more complex than a simple flat bar 12" with beveled edges. Something deep inside of something else that few people rarely have seen. For instance, if you found a bracket with the stamp "Ford," you would probably not find many people that would know what it is or belonged to, other than a Ford vehicle, maybe. I definitely don't want to discourage your efforts. Some pieces are easy to distinguish, while others not so much. Best of luck in solving this mystery (not that I was able to help other than to provide some perspective.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Coke Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Looks like a blade from a commercial paper cutter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Landscape supply company? Chipper shredder blade perhaps. Reversible so one side wears out you flip it over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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