sawing, cutting, rasping tool

[yatg]

Picked this up last year at an estate sale and thought it would be good for a drywall tool. On the handle it says "TEC Imports", STICKLEBACK (really hard to read), Germany, and US Pat No 2,652,075. Couldn't find anything about TEC Imports, but Stickleback does make rasps, and was able to find the patent. Metal cleaned up nice in Evaporust, but the handle is rough and the markings are faint so it'll get repainted. Paid less than $1 for it, and same/similar tools are selling on ebay for $20+.

 

[The Cobbler]

nice buy! nice resto! thanks for sharing

 

[RTM]

Years ago I tried to find out more about them, hit many dead ends. Have to pull that out of the archives, see if there is new info out there.

 

[Pexto]

I've got one of those that I inherited from my Dad. I remember using it when growing up for crude woodworking projects, but it really didn't see a whole lot of use. To me they seem to be one of those ideas that seems cool but doesn't offer much in practice.

For drywall I think you'll find that it can't do anything that a jab saw won't do easier, faster, and with less dust.

They originated in Germany where they were called a 'Stichling' - German for 'stickleback', a spiny little fish.

Still a nice find, though!

 

[JjKk40]

I've got one too, but a different company and shorter. It reminds me of a Type of tire plug prepping tool.

 

[four.cycle]

GJ member yatg said:

“On the handle it says "TEC Imports", STICKLEBACK (really hard to read), Germany, and US Pat No 2,652,075. Couldn't find anything about TEC Imports, but Stickleback does make rasps, and was able to find the patent.”

GJ member Pexto said:

“They originated in Germany where they were called a 'Stichling' - German for 'stickleback', a spiny little fish.”

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Searching “TEC imports” is a dead end because there’s a Brazilian outfit using that name now. Just a wild guess on my part, but I’d bet money marbles and chalk that the “TEC Imports” that brought in this unit from Germany was in Brooklyn New York.

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TEC / TEC Imports / "Stickleback" tool / patent 2652075 Sep 15 1953 Gunter Mannes, assignor to F. Aug. Honneknovel, Remscheid-Bliedinghausen, Germany / see Stichling-Werkzeugfabrik Honneknovel & Co /

Honneknovel / see Stichling-Werkzeugfabrik Honneknovel & Co. /

Stichling / Stichling-Werkzeugfabrik Honneknovel & Co., Burger Strasse, Germany / patent 2652075 Sep 15 1953 & 3642038 Feb 15 1972 Gunter Mannes / see also TEC Imports (US) /

I may well have the “Honneknovel” and “Stichling-Werkzeugfabrik” mixed up there as far as how they should be arranged in MY list. I don’t read or speak German – that’s as close as I could make sense of it. Irrespective of how I have them arranged in the list, it would appear that the “TEC” unit was made in Germany by this company.
It looks like Herr Mannes later improved the design to fit a conventional hand-held reciprocating saw.

BK