Is there a wood carving tool like this?

[winchman]

I recall seeing a homemade one my grandfather used, but I haven't been able to find one made commercially. What would you call it?

[elf]

Wood turning ring tool is very similar. They were usually forged, but can be made out of HSS using carbide end mills.

[boslab]

Sorby tools over here make one, as elf says sold as a ring tool

http://www.robert-sorby.co.uk/pdf/ring_tools_instruction.pdf

Mark

[RussZHC]

Depending on scale, may also be similar to a scorp...http://www.northbayforge.com/sc.htm

the scale is the odd part, the site linked to clearly shows ones relatively large but Lee Valley shows ones down at the "micro" level...others show scorps that are not closed rings at all with some that are not round basic shape either (all fairly small)

[Carm]

Scorp.

Have also seen them with drawknife style handles.

[winchman]

Yeah, that's it. Thanks!!

[bruto]

http://www.denkerdesign.com/page5.html

This looks pretty close too.

For wood turning, I've had pretty good luck at the experimental level with reground automotive wrist pins, and it seems possible that one could fabricate a hand tool similar to the above this way too, though for that you'd need to weld onto the work, whereas for turning the back end of the pin is the ferrule for a handle.

edit to add: just realized that the Denker tool does not need welding either. It looks as if there is a screw tightened rod in the handle which pulls the small length of tube tight, by hooking into the blunt end, thus allowing the tubular cutter to be rotated. If you can make that work, then I really don't see why you couldn't make your own from wrist pins.

[Alistair Hosie]

Winchmans tool IMHO is not designed for woodturning It looks more like a carving tool to me.I have done a lot of woodturning and never seen this for sale as a woodturning tool myself.My 2 cents worth Alistair

[winchman]

You're correct. My grandfather used it for carving.

[outlawspeeder]

I thought it was a hoof tool for shoeing horses.

[bruto]

I thought it was a hoof tool for shoeing horses.

I think such a tool is used for horse shoeing, but I've definitely seen similar ones used for bowl carving and the like.

I'm definitely putting the small hand version of this on my list as a possible application for a piece of wrist pin.

[Mike Burdick]

I think such a tool is used for horse shoeing ...

Not even close! Here's an example of a hoof knife. It's not really used to trim the hoof, but rather the frog and sole. They come in right and left hand versions.