Belknap bluegrass

[4barrel]

I came across this item in a box of "stuff" purchased at an auction. I know it's "part" of something, i just don't know what. Can anyone help? Thanks

 

[woody 73]

That is called a Joint raker and it used by brick masons and it cost a whopping $3.23 cents back in the day.

If you look under my name I did a story about the Bluegrass name some time back under all threads started by woody 73

 

[woody 73]

Found it:

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=269152

 

[four.cycle]

There's no sense of scale, so I cannot tell how big that item is. Looks like a piece of a roller skate.

Bluegrass / Belknap Hardware & Mfg. Co., Louisville, Ky. / (see also: http://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjo...rchived/files/belknap-history-54179132014.pdf )

Bluegrass was the "house brand" for Belknap Hardware, and they had all kinds of stuff in their catalog - everything from buggy whips to roller skates and everything in between.



ahh... Woody was quicker than me. I thought he wrote up something just recently on Belknap/Bluegrass.... wasn't sure.

 

[tombell572]

Yes, scale is everything. I thought it was a short handled johnson bar.

Thanks, Woody, a sad story indeed but not unique to Belknap. I read "When The Machine Stopped" a while back--the story of the demise of Burgmaster Corporation, once an innovative manufacturer of machine tools. There are many similar reasons for the death of both and more recently, American LaFrance Fire Apparatus. A buyout, new management successful in their previous field tries to force grandiose ideas but have no clue about the operations or culture of the company they just bought.

Tom B.