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Found it at a thrift store, my wife bought it because it’s pretty but we’re not sure what it could have been used for. My wife thinks it could be a door-stop and I guessed it might be a rug-beater.
I had to think for a second and get my mind out of thr gutter. It’s a big ass chisel.
Wedge/ chisel. Can tell by shroom head at handle, hammer strikes
This style of art is called Roses and Castles and it’s a type of folk art used extensively by narrowboat men and women to decorate their vessels. Painting retired domestic metal items is common in the UK, I have a set of jars with the metal lids painted in this style.
I think it is a tool for barking logs. Handle went in one end and you used it to remove bark from logs that had dried and ready for the sawmill. I don’t think it is a chisel.
That’s a slick chisel that someone turned into a decoration.
In proper configuration, the front should be perfectly straight across and sharp. And the back shouldn’t be mushroomed out but socketed onto a 1-2 foot wooden handle.
As others have pointed out, it’s a timber framing chisel.
It’s been abused a fair bit obviously. Someone pounded on the socket like a jerk for a number of years, and left it to rust somewhere until the enterprising painter found it. It looks like it may have some life life in it as a tool with a great deal of restoration.
It’s called a “socket chisel”. A wooden handle would fit inside the hollow socket. In this case the tool was struck without the wooden handle in place.
Timber framing slick, you can tell by the fact the socket is offset from the bottom flat, it’s not really a chisel designed to be whacked.
It’s not a chisel – they are steel so the can hold an edge – it’s post hole digger. For digging in clay. It’s been painted and the slot where you fix the shaft has mushroomed over .
It sounds like you might be describing a traditional Japanese cooking utensil called a “tsuribashi” or “otoshibashi.” This utensil is typically used for transferring and spreading hot coals or embers in a traditional Japanese charcoal grill, known as a “hibachi” or “shichirin.” The flat, tapered shape and heavy cast-iron construction make it suitable for safely handling and spreading the heat source. The painted floral design adds a decorative touch, which is common in many traditional Japanese kitchen tools and utensils. If it’s not a tsuribashi, could you provide more details or context about the item?
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