Fur and Cloth Stretching Pliers

3baygarage · Feb 21, 2019

How about something a little different today. For a change I thought I’d post these two pliers. A lot of you guys really enjoy some good pliers. I sort of knew what they were from seeing them online.

Upon searching, I found a thread over at Practical Machinist:

https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-history/purpose-utica-1100-7-pliers-246903/

That led me to an old 60’s era Utica Catalog at archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/UticaToolCatalog

What we have here:

Utica 7” Fur and Cloth Stretching Pliers 1100-7

and

VC & CO. 6” made in Germany. I assume they are the same purpose.

A little searching tells me VC & Co. made barber razors, pocket knives, and various pliers.

3baygarage · Feb 21, 2019

The Utica has teeth, while the VC & Co. has a nice cross hatch pattern.

woody 73 · Feb 21, 2019

3 bay are you going to stretch any wild coyote fur that you catch on your back 40 ?

jask · Feb 21, 2019

very nice!! I have used a similar a similar duck bill made by Osborne, they sell it as an upholstery pliers but I used them for lasting leather.

3baygarage · Feb 21, 2019

woody 73 said:
3 bay are you going to stretch any wild coyote fur that you catch on your back 40 ?

no, just some pliers I picked up over the past year.

jask said:
very nice!! I have used a similar a similar duck bill made by Osborne, they sell it as an upholstery pliers but I used them for lasting leather.

Nice. Feel free to post them up if you like. I was wondering how many use these.

jask · Feb 22, 2019

ssdave, those ones actually are leather lasting pliers! ( I have a set of those as well!) they were most commonly used by shoemakers and cobblers but also found their way in to lots of other leather work and upholstery shops... the curved jaw allows you to hold and lever the leather |( or webbing etc. ) under tension and then slide the jaw back to take up slack and nail off the material better than any other design

cag · Jul 16, 2020

Thank you 3 Bay, that's all I needed! The jaws on the German pair are very similar to mine.
Thanks fellas!

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