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The piece on top looks like a sad iron. They were heated on top of the wood stove and used to iron cloths. Usually had a removable handle
You're right! I have a coupe of different ones but one end is flat to rest on I think like irons today. When you think about it, that doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense though since the whole thing including the handle would be pretty hot. I know women used to use a piece of rag or an oven mitt to handle them.
I'm going to try and get the screws out of the back so I can see the side facing the wood mount. Maybe there's a place where a handle should fit.
Years ago, I worked as an electrician/mechanical maintenance tech at a plywood manufacturer. There were six Skoog plywood veneer pluggers there that were used to punch out knot hole defects in the veneer, prior to the veneer being laminated into a sheet of plywood. Simulaneously to punching out the knot, it would press a football-shaped veneer plug into the hole of the punch out.
The object you presented a photo of looks a lot like the die punch that was used on the machines for this process.
Years ago, I worked as an electrician/mechanical maintenance tech at a plywood manufacturer. There were six Skoog plywood veneer pluggers there that were used to punch out knot hole defects in the veneer, prior to the veneer being laminated into a sheet of plywood. Simulaneously to punching out the knot, it would press a football-shaped veneer plug into the hole of the punch out.
The object you presented a photo of looks a lot like the die punch that was used on the machines for this process.
It looks like it has a place for a handle, although not exactly like any sad iron I've seen. The earlier, or cheaper versions were one piece with the handle but later ones are 2 piece with the handle part being wood and an easy disconnect so the user could have multiple bottoms heating on the wood stove and just easily disconnect the handle from one to the next. I have a couple of the bottom parts, like you have, in the shop for small anvils and it looks like that was what they had the wood base on that one for.
Hre is one I picked up a couple weeks ago that shows better than I explained and may be of the same style
. You just lift the little **** to disengage the handle from the bottom so you can easily switch to a hot one when it cools off
Hre is one I picked up a couple weeks ago that shows better than I explained and may be of the same style
. You just lift the little **** to disengage the handle from the bottom so you can easily switch to a hot one when it cools off
I wonder if this one looks like mine under that cover?
I'm guessing mine was used as a portable anvil. That's what I would use it for.
