Recent content by bedavere

I forgot to thank Gafftaper for his welcome. Thank you ! One way to distinguish shackle from clevis might be to find the form and use of the first device that could be identified as being either one or the other. I'd expect the "original" device would have had a distinct use/function in its...

I've found another clevis application: the hinge on the frame of a pair of spectacles. Very neat. And another shackle 'thing': the 'eye' in a Newey hook & eye used somewhere on clothing. Although the 'shackle' doesn't take a screwed bolt, & nor does it "lock" round something: it does take the...

TORQUE: Sorry. I meant also to say another 'function' of the beautiful scrolled ends is to express the maker's feeling for beauty in 'his' craftsmanship. Many of the functional tools in our lives do have a clear aesthetic appeal. Who cannot admire a well-designed, made and finished tool ? Who...

BALE: here is another object taking the typical 'bale' shape, but with a variation of use beyond those I have already mentioned. It is a beautiful British Bronze Age 'TORQUE'. The owner would probably have been of fairly average status; but as it is made from an alloy of copper, rather than...

So sorry. I am still learning not very well how to use this site.I have written a lengthy spiel on this subject, but now lost it ! I feel like Thomas Carlyle; he went out for a walk after completing his manuscript on the French Revolution and left his draft on the kitchen table. On returning...

Sorry everyone. It has now gone !

Pics show type (b) bales (US"bails"); & one out of very many designs of Shackle - notice the screw thread inside one hole.There is currently listed on Ebay (Item # 3346 3272 5556) a SUPERB example of an old wooden BALE. It is truely beautiful. Anyone planning to visit the UK is welcome to stay...

I know this is obvious but: If your aim is to secure each tool from loss whilst it is in use, then how about: # regular boy scout's lanyard round your neck; # replace whistle etc with a "click type" keyring holder or very small quick-release karabinier, splicing this to the free end of the...

Sorby symbol shaped as a BALE.

Sorry folks: The other type of pocket knife bale is: (b) A loop of thick stiff wire, "bent round" with its two ends pushed in to the two ends of a hole in the butt end of the knife handle. Such 'bales' are listed for sale on American websites as 'bails'. Sorry to say that I think they are...

Hello everyone ! I am new here, and VERY LATE I KNOW ! I live in the UK; perhaps that explains my lateness. I spend my life researching obscure items, identified of course by the names given to them. My target is BALE. Distinguished from Bail. In England its principal meaning is "a bundle of...