What is this tool?
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RTM
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Guessing a tool for smoothing mortar between bricks.
X2 on a brick pointing tool.
Mintgrun
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Cool. I thought they were convex, but they make concave tools too. Here's a modern assortment of tuck pointing tools. It's amazing how many different styles there are.
speedex.com.au
Tuckpointing Tools
Speedex manufactures and supplies the highest quality and range of tuckpointing tools available worldwide. Standard flat bottomed tuckpointing tools, Beaded or grooved tuckpointing tools in round or square, frenchmen knives
speedex.com.au
Farmer J.
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Well it certainly could be for making a nice pointed joint in mortar. The masons working around here usually use a broken piece of old iron bucket handle!
Farmer J.
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Thanks Mintgrun. Now I'm gonna be looking very closely, (even more than I already do) at old mortar joints in walls, and spotting the different designs to match them with the tools.. and driving the family mad.. This could be even worse than when I see the patterns in the hand made bricks, and point out to them which bricks came out of the same moulds!Cool. I thought they were convex, but they make concave tools too. Here's a modern assortment of tuck pointing tools. It's amazing how many different styles there are.
Tuckpointing Tools
Speedex manufactures and supplies the highest quality and range of tuckpointing tools available worldwide. Standard flat bottomed tuckpointing tools, Beaded or grooved tuckpointing tools in round or square, frenchmen knives
engineer2
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Convex tuckpointing was trendy for a while. Back in the 40's or 50's?
Old Man Roger
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Ya, you would think it would be too soft.
wrenchguy
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search stone beader... i started with mortar bead and found stone beader image matching that. being brass is unusual to me.
I don't buy the brick jointer, being brass it would wear very quickly
wrenchguy
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I have thick/heavy cast brass/bronze cement finishing tools,
In who's lifetime? Think about it, it wouldn't wear that easily and heaving the heavy weight might make it smoother gliding for a tough as nails brick layer. Few people work as hard as they do mixing mud by hand, tossing 100lb bags of concrete and packing stacks of bricks. They might prefer a heavier tool.
Farmer J.
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Maybe the brass/bronze, whatever is more resistant than iron to the caustic alkali mortar? Maybe it's easier to clean up after work? I do know that if you don't wash all the cement mortar from ferrous metal tools it sets on them, and they rust quickly.
Debcrow
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Certainly, looks like a tool for making rodded mortar joints.
If it is a tuckpointing tool, probably not brass but some alloy type to make it more resistant to abrasion damage.
Does it show abrasion wear on the edges from use? Most mortar tools are abraded from use on the part that comes in contact with bricks. If it shows very little abrasion, I would say it is for some other use.
( ie: holding hotdogs down in a gallon container of ketchup to get them adequately covered?)
If it is a tuckpointing tool, probably not brass but some alloy type to make it more resistant to abrasion damage.
Does it show abrasion wear on the edges from use? Most mortar tools are abraded from use on the part that comes in contact with bricks. If it shows very little abrasion, I would say it is for some other use.
( ie: holding hotdogs down in a gallon container of ketchup to get them adequately covered?)
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