Collection of chair-maker's tools

This lathe was used for turning the legs of Windsor chairs by a 'bodger' working in the neighbourhood of High Wycombe. It forms part of a collection of chairmakers' tools, and was in use until around 1953.

Lathe, comprising : 2 uprights; 2 bed shears with 3 bolts etc; 2 braces; treadle frame; 2 poppits complete with iron fittings & wedges; steady with wedge to park swinging piece but no wedge for security to shears

Lathe with uprights, bed shears, braces, treadle frame and 2 poppits complete with iron fittings & wedges

Piece of Pit Saw Blade

A Chair-Maker's Shave Horse

2 light frame saws (betty saws); a bowsaw (strut broken and lacking cord); a hand saw and a tenon saw

2 light frame saws

An iron double glue kettle

An Iron Double Glue Kettle

A cow-mouthed adze, two small hand-axes and 2 draw knives

A Cow-Mouthed Adze

Two turning gouges and two turning chisels

Two Turning Gouges and Two Turning Chisels

A maul; a framer's hammer; a rasp; 3 small chisels; 2 shave hooks; 2 sharpening tools for spoon bits (ground-down saw files); a triangular bicketer; an initial punch; 4 flat scrapes; a saw set; a gimlet; an iron compasses and a ship stone

Collection of Hand Tools

A stock scraper with blade and another without blade

Stock Scrapers

10 spokeshaves (one with double iron)

9 bit stocks. Some have loose bits or ferrules and one has a detached head

9 Bit Stocks

Breast plate for bit stocks

Breast Plate for Bit Stocks

Leather breast bib for use with shave horse

Leather Breast Bib for use with Shave horse

2 Chopping Blocks

A seat template (seat piece with screws in and a vice tang)

Seat Template

2 seat pieces, one partly gouged

5 back splats

5 Back Splats

6 pieces for legs etc prepared for turning; 7 turned legs (one perhaps unfinished); a turned stretcher; 2 turned back spindles

7 turned legs, 2 spindles, a turned stretcher and 6 incomplete legs

The following items of unknown purpose : two pairs of beech blocks

Details

Category:: Hand and Machine Tools

Object Number:: 1953-347

type:: bodger tools

credit:: Mayes, L.J.

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Collection of chair-maker's tools

Lathe with uprights, bed shears, braces, treadle frame and 2 poppits complete with iron fittings & wedges

Light Iron Staple-Pattern Leg Vice.

Bench top to which /2 was fixed

Iron Holdfast

Pit Saw with Tiller and Box