Davistown Museum Inventory of Tools | Buck Brothers |
| Status | Location |
121412T11 | Caliper chisel | bio | DTM | TT |
Cast steel, wood (rosewood), 18 1/2" long, 8 3/4" long handle, 1/4" cutting edge, signed "BUCK BROS CAST STEEL". |
Patternmakers' Tools |
42904T4B | Crane necked gouge | bio | photo | DTM | MH |
Cast steel, brass ferrule, wooden handle, 12" long including 5 1/4" handle, 1/12" wide, signed "BUCK BROS" with a buck touchmark. |
42904T4A | Crane necked gouge | bio | photo | DTM | MH |
Cast steel, brass ferrule, wooden handle, 12 1/2" long including 5 1/4" handle, 11/16" wide, signed "BUCK BROS" with a buck touchmark. |
This is also called a bent gouge or offset gouge (Sellens 1990, 197). |
Woodworking: Edge Tools |
110611T5 | Paring chisel | bio | DTM | TT |
Steel, wood, 3 1/4" long blade, 4 1/2" long wooden faceted handle, 1/4" diamond shape edge, signed "BUCK BROS" "JAMES CAM". |
Possibly it was reforged into a diamond shaped edge tool. The signature sequence is particularly significant showing Buck Brothers |
utilizing English steel. This is the first edge tool we've encountered with a James Cam (steelmaker) mark on the verso. |
71401T20 | Socket chisel | bio | DTM | MH |
Drop-forged steel, wood, and brass, 8 3/4" long, 9 1/2" blade, signed "Charles Buck". |
This is an excellent example of the craft of one of New England's foremost edge toolmakers. |
Woodworking: Edge Tools - American Made Cast Steel |
30911T8 | Chisel | bio | DTM | TT |
Drop-forged iron and cast steel, wooden handle, 13" long, 7/8" wide, 6" long blade, signed "CHARLES BUCK" "CAST" "STEEL". |
41915T8 | Gouge | bio | DTM | TT |
Cast steel, wood (rosewood), brass, 12 3/4" long, 5 7/8" handle, 1/2" edge, signed "BUCKBROTHERS". |
42904T2 | Gouge | bio | DTM | MH |
Drop-forged cast steel, brass ferrule, wooden handle, 5 3/4" long with additional 5 7/8" handle, 1" wide, signed "BUCK BROS" "CAST |
STEEL" with a buck touchmark. |
93011T13 | Gouge | bio | DTM | MH |
Drop-forged cast steel and wood, 14" long, 1 1/2" wide blade, 4 1/2" long handle, signed "BUCK BROS" "CAST" and owner's mark |
"EWEEK". |
41915T7 | Gouge | bio | TT |
Cast steel, wood, brass, 11 3/4" long, 1" edge, 6" handle, signed "CHARLES BUCK CAST STEEL". |
Woodworking: Other Tools |
9615LTC1 | Lathe sizer | DA | TT (Pub) |
Steel, rosewood, brass, 18 1/2" long, 8 1/4" handle, 4 1/2" gap, 5/16" edge, signed "BUCK BROS CAST STEEL". |
Woodworking: Planes |
51217T2 | Plane iron | bio | DTM | TT |
Cast steel, 7 1/2" long, 1 1/8" wide, 1/2" thick, signed "BUCK BROTHERS WARRANTED CAST STEEL". |
7602T1 | Razee Plane | bio | photo | LPC | MH |
Ebony with cast steel blade, 22" long, 2 5/8" wide, 1 7/8" wide blade, signed "Made by P Marshall" on the toe and "Buck Brothers Warranteed |
Cast Steel" on the blade. |
This plane was one of three in a collection of tools formerly owned by a ship caulker who worked in the 19th century in the shipyards of Boston |
and Chelsea. It was found with associated caulking tools in a dark corner of 3 Derby, Chelsea, June 2002 by the Liberty Tool Co. |
Woodworking: Planes Made in Maine (Contemporary) |
52408T3 | Coffin plane | bio | bio | DTM | MH-O |
Etched maple, steel blade, 8 3/4" long, 2 1/2" wide, 4 3/4" high, signed "Buck Brothers" on the blade. |
This plane was made by Leon Robbins of Crown Plane in Bath, Maine. The blade was made by Buck Brothers of Millbury, MA. |
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