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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 4375942, member: 54"]<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/41s41i" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/41s41i" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/41s41i</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The thing, made of tool steel, is a one-off item, 3x4x 7/8 inches. The maker spent time making a custom box to protect it, and added the touch of “jewelling” I sent the pix around to our machinists club and no one knew for sure what it did. The key is probably the “knife edge.” He might have bolted it down to a steel plate with four precisely-located holes in it and used the knife-edge to precisely align some work- piece on top of that plate. But only he knows for sure and like a lot of this stuff, it only hits the market when the maker is no longer with us.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 4375942, member: 54"][URL]https://www.flickr.com/photos/189102681@N07/shares/41s41i[/URL] The thing, made of tool steel, is a one-off item, 3x4x 7/8 inches. The maker spent time making a custom box to protect it, and added the touch of “jewelling” I sent the pix around to our machinists club and no one knew for sure what it did. The key is probably the “knife edge.” He might have bolted it down to a steel plate with four precisely-located holes in it and used the knife-edge to precisely align some work- piece on top of that plate. But only he knows for sure and like a lot of this stuff, it only hits the market when the maker is no longer with us.[/QUOTE]
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