J.Y. Simons type 6 shave

Description

This shave was invented by one J.Y. Simons of Troy, NY, and patented in 1868.  Originally made for leatherworking, it quickly found a lot of uses for woodworking and other applications, including scraping labels off boxes and dressing wooden floors.   I’ve used one to clean up wide dadoes and to remove glue squeeze-out and trim up joints on raised panels.   It’s a nice-looking tool, comfortable to use, and has that killer-graphic patent date from a few years after the Civil War.

This one has about 75% of its japanning; cutter is unmarked, as is often the case with these, and has a fair amount of minor corrosion-blush that will clean up just fine.