✅ SOLVED Mystery Tool of the Week

[Lafitte Deux]

Another tool found in my Dad's garage.
He doesn't know what it is, but he had to buy it many years ago.

 

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[Charlie P. (NY)]

I'm going to go way out on a limb It may be a broken dowel extractor. The square cut-out in the handle was used to drive the tapered piece into the broken off dowel (like the end of a chair cross-brace pegged into the leg) and then the handle screwed down to pull the dowel piece out.

Have not seen one like that but I have seen such tools that were similar. Lots of furniture used to be dowel/tenoned together

 

[Mud Hut]

It is a woodcarver's screw.

 

[tamrock]

Thats sure it Mud Hut. I was thinking it was some kind of gear puller till I got to your answer.

 

[Lafitte Deux]

Thanks Mud Hut! I couldn't find any info when I searched.