The Underwood Multi-tool (c. 1850)

[adrenochrome@mastodon.social]

@die_christine

Oh ja! Ich habe das als Inbus, Torx und Kreuz/Schlitz. Super praktisch!

[die_christine@nrw.social]

@Adrenochrome Das kann nur Inbus, aber in allen gängigen Größen.
Da muss man nicht nochmal in den Keller rennen, nur weil man den falschen genommen hat.
Und durch den dicken Griff hat man einen guten "Grip".

[festlicheameise@hachyderm.io]

@clew @Adrenochrome

Hello im a blacksmith. And alsp trained under a verry good farrier for a time
This is not espacialy hard but is time consumeing

It seems like its been made to be impossible to separetly turn each hoofpick?

Makeing the thing

1 create loops by bending thin bar
or upset(widen) ends of a bar and punch a hole in each (more time consumeing)
2 bend the back of the lyre shape
3 pass thin bar through the loops / punched holes
4 make the tools and flatten the ends that you will wrap around the thin bar
5 repeatedly heat the flattened area of each tool and wrap the flattened part around the thin bar

This is easyer to make in a coal/coke forge

Also its possible to get each tool atached prettly stiffly so they dont jangle around but i would probably add something so when they eventualy loosen you can lock them in place in their compact position

To do this id add another thin bar for the tools to rest against,and another on a rivet that slides over the other side to hold them in place

- but i cant figire out how to describe this part well

[oscarfalcon@mastodon.social]

@Adrenochrome

I see this, and NOW I want one.

[lizette603_23@mastodon.social]

@Adrenochrome that is gorgeous

[skua@mastodon.social]

@Adrenochrome
#Alttext
Left to right the tools are:
Large hoof cleaner
Small hoof cleaner (?)
Narrow corkscrew (?)
Gimlet
Wide corkscrew
Narrow awl
Saw
Flatblade screwdriver
Wide awl
Hook

Sherlock would have had a separate set of lock picks.
#SherlockHolmes

[starlily@mastodon.social]

@Adrenochrome steampunk leatherman

[ferds@metalhead.club]

@Adrenochrome this is amazing, wow!

[bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot]

@Adrenochrome In the children's books we read in the sixties and early seventies, it seemed that every boy character carried around a pocket knife that included "a tool for removing stones from horses' hooves." This was such a common phrase that archive.org has more than 150 books that contain it. Of course we hardly ever saw a horse...

https://archive.org/search?tab=fulltext&query=%22for+removing+stones+from+horses%27+hooves

[hamishb@mstdn.ca]

Or a snug leather pouch they fit into?

@festlicheameise @clew @Adrenochrome

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@Adrenochrome @hamishb it has very old lineage!
https://techhub.social/@rayckeith/116054633059712965

[hamishb@mstdn.ca]

Wow!

@deborahh @Adrenochrome

[dean90815dean@episcodon.net]

@Adrenochrome
Like an early Swiss Army Knife, but more aesthetically pleasing.

[elithebearded@fed.qaz.red]

@Adrenochrome

I've searched for more information and found one listing of the tools:

A hook used to untie knots.
A scoop for measuring medication.
A screw starter.
A different screw starter.
A corkscrew.
A toothpick or possibly an awl.
A saw blade.
A flathead screwdriver.
A pick.
A hook to snag fishing lines.

Myself, I don't think that's a toothpick. Looks like an awl. And the last hook gives me button hook vibes, for fastening your boot and spat buttons. The scoop also seems questionable

[cathos@merveilles.town]

@Adrenochrome I'm impressed - especially by the little detents in the hinge to make the bits all stay closed or opened!

[nowhereman@troet.cafe]

@skua @Adrenochrome
But no knife, what probably means, that a knife is not needed because everyone had one. This gives me a different look on old pictures from that time.
Knifes everywhere?

[katzentratschen@mastodon.social]

@Adrenochrome At least for foldable hoofpicks, there are still similar designs around. But unfortunately without the finesse of the original. And no extra tools. I've got this model:

https://www.loesdau.de/horse-friends-hufkratzer-7116.html

[skua@mastodon.social]

@Nowhereman @Adrenochrome
Yes.
And yet "knife crime" wasn't usually seen as a big problem? (Though the Sydney razor gangs were.)

Today a lot of rural manual workers would usually have a knife still I think.

[daft_wully@mastodon.social]

@Adrenochrome A nasty piece of martial art tool, isn't it !

[tom665@mstdn.social]

@Adrenochrome It's not decades, it's millennia.
https://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/learn-with-us/look-think-do/roman-swiss-army-knife