SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine I am goodlow which shows a few chips

which shows a few chips but I'd leave it just as it is

I find these very tender things--and the perfect thing to share with a young person who thinks life is hard: day after day of mopping

you put your fingers in the rotary and turn

One slat missing

held in a fist

SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine I am goodlow which shows a few chipsA very homemade old tool, and beautifully so. An old tag from the now deceased dealer I purchased this from described it as an antique mast scorer from Maine. And indeed, the iron spikes extending at regular intervals from the rotating wooden wheels at either end are quite sharp enough to leave their mark. From what I understand, this would have been using for marking the mast s of a sailboat to indicate specific sail positions or settings for optimal