Does anyone today use one of these tools?

Would anyone have instructions on this tools use?
And advice about making/finding a bow?

Thanks

[This message was edited by Wayne C. Anderson on April 11, 2003 at 12:46.]

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I am assuming that this is a movement holder - its missing one screw and needs to be cleaned up -no name or markings visible?

The box is marked H.R.P. Any idea what the manufacturer name might be? Thanks

F J Britten's Watch and Clockmakers Handbook DICTIONARY AND Guide.Defines a BOW, "as a thin slip of whalebone or cane used to rotate the mandril of a lathe, a drill or an arbor, by coiling a line attached to its extremities once around a ferrule or pulley on the object rotated; This line, according to the dimensions of the work , is of Gut, Horse Hair,or Human Hair".....
The only one I have ever seen was made of Malacca Cane and had Horse Hair line on it. All the Best . GED.

I think i saw one on uncle larry,s site in Canada, i know he always has a fair amount of old tools.