Hollowing Tool Identification

[David Snodgrass]

Found this hollowing tool a quite a while back at a used tool / junk shop. They had no idea who made it or even how it was intended to be used. The tool doesn’t display any branding or other identification markings.

The cutting tip is articulated, and the large cylinder on the tool shaft and be moved and locked into place, presumably as a counterweight or handhold (?).

I have other hollowing tools that I had enough experience with to be comfortable and reasonably proficient with, so it hasn’t seen much use (though the articulated cutting tip has occasionally come in handy for cutting certain curves on the inside surface just beyond the opening).

I’ve attached a few photos, and am hoping someone here might recognize the tool.

 

[Dave Landers]

Looks like a Jerry Glaser handle. I did a little googling and found this - see pic and text about 2/3 of the way down. There's also mention of the double-articulated hollower near the end of this article.

 

[David Snodgrass]

Looks like a Jerry Glaser handle. I did a little googling and found this - see pic and text about 2/3 of the way down. There's also mention of the double-articulated hollower near the end of this article.

Dave, I think you’ve ID’d the tool. Minus the Glaser logo, the handle is indeed a ringer for some of those on the Glaser Engineering site, and it is shot filled as described. The counterweight also fits with Howard Lewin’s description in his “Turning a Hollow Vessel” article on the Glaser web site.

Thanks Dave for your invaluable help in the ID of this tool. I’m only left to wonder how a tool with such an outstanding provanence ended up an one-notch-above-flea-market used tool shop in western NC.

 

[robo hippy]

Yes, that handle is a give away.... Never liked the shot filled handles.

robo hippy

 

[Dan Hewitt]

Looks like a Jerry Glaser handle. I did a little googling and found this - see pic and text about 2/3 of the way down. There's also mention of the double-articulated hollower near the end of this article.

For those interested in Jerry Glaser you maybe interested to know that he collaborated with Woodcut Tools Founder Ken Port in the late 1990's to design the Woodcut Tru Grind Tool holder for sharpening which is still the only Tool Holder that can hold all turning tools with no adaptors and feature a lock to set the number and repeat accurately

 

[Dan Hewitt]

Looks like a Jerry Glaser handle. I did a little googling and found this - see pic and text about 2/3 of the way down. There's also mention of the double-articulated hollower near the end of this article.

Thank you Dave for sharing this AAW article