What Is It? Game 52

Railroad spike remover?

Crude cigar holder?

Potato peeler

It appears to be a device for threading some sort of rope through some sort of material.

This would be mounted on a pole in the handle.

Kinda like a giant sewing needle.

netting needle, for mending fishing nets.

spindle for yarn

Whatever it is it looks like it hurts when used.

It´s one of Cloud's Swords (from Final Fantasy 7). You can see 2 Materia Slots on the handle. It's a little rusty, though. Maybe the shopkeeper in Midgar can restore it.

It's either a divot replacer or a a magic wand for siamese twins.

Cattle prod?

I think it might be an instrument of torture.

I believe it is used in the making of horse collars to stuff in the straw.

I think it's called a "trier" for testing large blocks of cheese. When inserted into the cheese a sample core is removed, tasted and the remaining piece is then returned to the cheese so the aging process may continue.

seems it is used for roving o.o

It's a rectal annoyer.

How about a fish scaler remover thingy

It's a knife used for eating peas.

The peas sit in the groove and you can just roll them into your mouth.

It is a tool for removing molten lead balls from molds. For the making of musket balls.

It's for threading a loom.

It's a peeler, maybe for cheese.

This an "OUT-U-KUM" weed puller less its handle.

It's a rib tickler.

a shoemaker's needle used to stitch leather for shoes.

I think it's some sort of needle or something related to stitching.

sort of nail puller, maybe used when replacing the old wood shingles.

Its... The Spear of Destiny!!

It's a pair of boxer-briefs

It'a a frog gig, for spearing frogs. Happy hunting ya'll!

A colonial potato peeler.

Is it a tuning fork, used to tune pianos?

It's a vegetable peeler - looks just like one I have. Except more rusty!

I have one exactly like it with a wood handle about 25-30 inches. People have told me it is a dandelion getter but I am not fully convinced of that. Great website! Thank you, Don Ede

Fence post for an electric fence to keep animals out of the garden.

Its an Iron Klotchel, used in making the traditional Bohemian pastry Bladdofasklitcha. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals successfully petitioned congress to outlaw the process of making Bladdofasklitcha and to passess a Klotchel, Iron, Rubber, or zinc, is punishable by a $3,000 fine and six weeks incarceration.

Get rid of the damn thing.

I think it's a peeler for peeling!

Looks like the tunning fork we used to use for setting the governed speed of a Teletype motor of about Model 14-15-19 vintage.

At the open end of the fork there is a shutter that opens and shuts as the fork vibrates. On the motor flywheel is a drum with alternating black and white stripes.

The governor is adjusted until the stripes standstill while being viewed through the shutter.

I might even have one around here in working order, even though I don't have the Teletypes anymore.

Potato peeler, for sure. If it's not a potato peeler, looks just like one.

It's a sock.

NO? Come on! This game is rigged!

obviously, and early tuning fork.

Tim Giachetti (comment 5) has it right. It's gotta be a netting needle. I've watched somebody use one of these before (slightly different), not only to mend a net, but to make one from scratch. Fascinating.

Clearly it's a golfer's divot tool which attaches to the putter so it will be on hand when needed.

I guess it's a blacksmith's tool for removing horseshoe nails.

This was originally used by the first Clinton administration to seperate truth from fiction.

As you can clearly see by the deplorable condition it has spent the last seven years safely nuzzled in the former first lady's 'dainty?'unmentionables which accounts for the liberal coating of rust and grime.

This was recently pulled from whence it rested by Janet Reno and is slated to be sent to Dupont corp to be teflon coated to ensure there is no possibility of the truth being left attached to the fiction planned.

It looks like some type of sewing implement. A rusty, less refined version of the tool used to thread a needle...

I don't know the technical term - but I am almost positive that it is used to thread materials through a weavers loom

hmm... Ive seen one thing before that looks like this. I hope it doesn't do what I think it does but I would have to ask a jewish person befor i make any conclusions...

A Neanderthal tunning fork

an old trepanning tool?

It's a shuttle cock. Holds thread/yarn, tossed through the warp threads on a loom.

I think it's a tuning fork...

i think my parents had something of the kind to make or repair fishing nets .

Hi,all

This looks like a teletype tuning fork. I have been restoring old teletypes for quite a while but I dont have one of these.

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