SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine I am goodlow I love the square grid

I love the square grid organization

This larger one

you put your fingers in the rotary and turn

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

One slat missing

SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine I am goodlow I love the square gridA 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