Sunday, February 24, 2013

Tobacco cutter

Finished sharpening the blade now it cuts as good as a cut throat.
Proper adjustment is needed.

5 comments:

  1. Nice job. Looks nasty sharp, I think I can hear plugs screaming from here. That is a much cleaner cut on the flake as well. Great photo's as well, love the close-up of the plug...drool...

    Do you think that Mc Millan was a brand or perhaps the store the cutter was used in?

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  2. I was just thinking, I'm sure I've seen some old English wood planes with that exact blade in them. Replacements would be pretty easy to source or to even have made.

    I wonder if anyone makes plug cutters still...research time...new money making idea...

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  3. I think its advertising on the wood ?
    Its like a wood plane the name on the blade is a company that made lots of forged tools
    and knives,plain blades farming stuff industrial revolution stuff.

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  4. Also the blade has so much life in it still has full adjustment has not been sharpened a lot. When you run out of blade adjustment from sharpening you can reverse it and you have a new full blade to sharpen with full adjustment so life span it could cut 200 years or more worth of plugs.

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  5. Well birds-eye like that does bear a resemblance to a lava flow.

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