What Is It? - #48

[SifuPhil]

Although today's What Is It? is an antique, they are still being manufactured - and used - today.



Length: 10"
Material: Wood


WHAT IS IT?

 

[rkunsaw]

A tool to check the viscosity of paint?

 

[Ivanchuk]

Some sort of clothespin for heavy blankets and stuff?

 

[TICA]

A boot remover. Put your heel into the V part, your other foot on the pointed end and haul your old foot out.

 

[SifuPhil]

A tool to check the viscosity of paint?

No, but good guess!

Some sort of clothespin for heavy blankets and stuff?

Not a clothespin, no - although it DOES look like one.

A boot remover. Put your heel into the V part, your other foot on the pointed end and haul your old foot out.

No, but I know they have gizmos like that. This isn't one of them though.

 

[Diwundrin]

Tweezer?

 

[Jillaroo]

Is it used in knitting or crochet??

 

[Diwundrin]

Thinking tweezers for pulling thread in upholstery or sail making?

 

[TICA]

Is it used in knitting or crochet??

I agree but see it more as something to wind yarn around after it comes off a spinning wheel?

 

[Pappy]

A forked tongue depressor? (Sorry)

 

[TICA]

A forked tongue depressor? (Sorry)

:lofl:

 

[Diwundrin]

A forked tongue depressor? (Sorry)

Pay that! :lofl:

 

[That Guy]

Darn, I was TICA on boot removin'. So . . . UH...

 

[SifuPhil]

Tweezer?

No, sorry.

Is it used in knitting or crochet??

Thinking tweezers for pulling thread in upholstery or sail making?

I agree but see it more as something to wind yarn around after it comes off a spinning wheel?

Nothing to do with knitting or crocheting or thread or yarn - good guesses though.

A forked tongue depressor? (Sorry)

:lofl:

Pay that! :lofl:

That was excellent, but no, sorry, not a tongue depressor for forked tongues. layful:

Darn, I was TICA on boot removin'. So . . . UH...

Sorry, no boots.

 

[TICA]

Is this one solid piece of wood or is it hinged. Kind of looks likes scissors or pinchers IF it comes apart in the middle?

 

[SifuPhil]

Is this one solid piece of wood or is it hinged. Kind of looks likes scissors or pinchers IF it comes apart in the middle?

Good question - it swivels or opens around the center point, sort of like a pair of scissors, except in reverse.

 

[Sid]

Wrecked em stretcher from a proctologist tool kit.

 

[Ivanchuk]

Holy crap!

 

[nan]

Some sort of hair curling tong?

 

[Jillaroo]

It looks like a water diviner for midgets

 

[Diwundrin]

'Cheats' chopsticks?

 

[Anne]

A boot or shoe stretcher??

 

[SifuPhil]

Wrecked em stretcher from a proctologist tool kit.

Oooooo ... nope.

Holy crap!

Nope, not religious feces.

Some sort of hair curling tong?

Not a for curling hair, sorry.

It looks like a water diviner for midgets

LOL! Good one, but no.

'Cheats' chopsticks?

Heh, heh ... also good, but no, sorry.

A boot or shoe stretcher??

No, but you're getting warmer ...

 

[dbeyat45]

For marking male lambs ???

 

[Phantom]

tool for holding elictric wires to make it easier to solder? (being wood it would not draw heat)