SifuPhil
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What Is It? - #56
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Jillaroo
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- Mid North Coast NSW Australia
Is it to bash the tacks in on a sale sign for materials
SifuPhil
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LOL - no, ma'am. :excitement:
Diwundrin
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Is it a smoother for squeezing air bubbles out when pasting paper to a board or wall?
SifuPhil
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Not a smoothie, no.
Ah,so that's what it is.
Now how did I do that????
The greatest actions are oft performed unconsciously.
"On sale"..... no, not it.
Sorry, no - "on sale" is not what this item is.
Jillaroo
Demented
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- Mid North Coast NSW Australia
Is it an auctioneers hammer that he slams down to say the item is sold???
Diwundrin
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- Nth Coast NSW Australia
Used as a folding guide for cardboard or wrapping paper in a shop?
Jackie22
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- Northeast Texas
...a device used with sail cloth or canvas?
Diwundrin
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Aaaaaagh Jackie! I missed that pun. doh. 
SifuPhil
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Not an auctioneer's hammer, no.
Not a folding guide either - sorry.
DING!
I gave you only one ding because although you're correct that this item is used with sail cloth, I'm going to be a stubborn old coot and hold out for its exact function.
You're only two DINGs away from owning it - don't give up!
Jackie22
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- Northeast Texas
...lol..ok, how about a thingy that fits in a hole to tie down sail cloth?
SifuPhil
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No-ooooooo... still blazing hot ....
Diwundrin
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OMG that's why it looked vaguely familiar. An old neighbour who'd sailed on one of the last of the clippers as a lad gave me a couple of old wooden items when I was a kid and said they were from the ship. I suspect that if they were put with other 'treasures' from that era they still dwell in a box in the garage. The thing that looked like that had a round handle and flatter wider 'head' and I couldn't figure out what it was used for then either. Won't guess again, Jackie's serve.
Jackie22
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- Northeast Texas
hmmm......a device used in the folding of sail cloth?
SifuPhil
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DING! DING! DING!
We have a winna'!
Sorry to have been so mysterious but I wanted to get it in the ball park, rather than just the parking lot.
Jackie has correctly identified this as a device for folding sail cloth, a Sailor's Seam Rubber as it is technically called. It was used to flatten the seams of the sail to prepare the seam for sewing. It was also used after sewing to further flatten the seam to even out and reduce the tension on the seams. Sort of a non-electric iron, I guess.
Excellent job Jackie and thanks all for playing with my Sailor's Rubber!
Phantom
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Door Stop ?
Diwundrin
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Yeeew, glad you got that one Jackie.
Gooood thinking. :applause2:
Gooood thinking. :applause2:
Phantom
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aaahhhh bugger ..... late again
Jillaroo
Demented
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Well done Jackie
That Guy
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Well, shiver me timbers.
Rainee
Member
Is it something to do with shipwrights ? to do with sail making?
Rainee
Member
see I was late well not far off it .. brother in law is a shipwright and said it was to do with sail makings lol good on you Jackie.. well done..