What is It? Game 17

By Alex in What Is It on Mar 29, 2007 at 2:54 am

This week’s collaboration with What is It? Blog brings us this …. clamp! But it’s not just any clamp, this tool actually has a very specific use: can you guess what that is? Post your answer in the comment section – no URL, please! Let others play.

No prize this week, so you’re playing for bragging rights. Congrats to Mordred who won last week’s game.

Update 3/30/07: It’s a book clamp to hold large books open while you read it! Here’s the patent. No one got it right, although Jen #23 was the closest.


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  1. Aramax
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 3:13 am

    Clamps to measure how much fat you got?

  2. Jerome
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 3:56 am

    It looks like a type of anvil or shoe horn. It clamps to a workbench and you have a work surface which can be used.

  3. Adam Walker
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 4:00 am

    Looks like the type of clamp used to hold diamonds whilst they are being polished.

  4. jonno
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 4:58 am

    is it a tool for clamping sandiwches together?

  5. Jimbo
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 4:59 am

    A clamp for the blind?

  6. Miss Cellania
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 5:45 am

    I believe that would be an instrument of torture.

  7. Harley
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 6:23 am

    I belive it’s for widening the neck of a shell casing so a bullet can be inserted.

  8. Fellini
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 6:34 am

    Its a clamp for the side of a table tennis table, to hold the net in place…or its what the gynaecologists use to examine……

  9. joh3n
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 6:52 am

    I’m guessing it’s a clamp for a mobile shoe shine operation.

  10. jonno
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 7:28 am

    or perhaps a banana clamp

  11. leonardo
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 7:31 am

    Looks like an old surgical instrument to me.

  12. Jimbo
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 8:07 am

    Bar clamp used by cabinet makers to make joints.

  13. Kct
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 9:08 am

    It is a tool that keeps the wood fixed in the carpenter’s table. I have one! The name In portuguese is ‘Grampo’, or Cramp! ;)

  14. BJ Wood
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 9:20 am

    I’m guessing a fruit pitter, probably cherry??

  15. macstudent
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 9:33 am

    Is it a clamp of some sort used for horseshoes? Looks like something from a farrier’s shop.

  16. Ali
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 9:43 am

    Bondage Toy! *rowr!* :P

  17. Steve
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am

    A tool used by the Nazis to measure the noses of suspected Jews in pre-WW II Germany.

  18. beajerry
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 10:50 am

    To hold baseballs for the stitching process.

  19. Lu
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 11:51 am

    An old fashioned clamp used by dentists?

  20. MasON!
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    I think it is a clamp used in the constuction of boats, to hold multiple pieces of wood together while gluing and fastening it together.

  21. Cheryl
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    To me, it’s a clamp with a handle. I could clamp some boards together, and be able to carry them around by the top piece. Hey. I bet you could clamp some boards together and use the handle to guide them through a jig saw, thereby creating two copies of the same cut.

  22. Jen
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 12:35 pm

    Looks like part of a book press, but it’s missing the plates to hold the book flat. It’s how you press fanned (from dampness) books back into shape!

  23. Barb
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 12:49 pm

    Used prior to a LOBOTOMY…

  24. Randall
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 1:14 pm

    Its a Cebical clamp for sheep shoes. While most of the world can do without shoeing sheep, In the southwest Orkney islands shoeed sheep are the norm. In fact, sheering unshoeed sheep can cost a sheep sheerer their license and subject them to a hefty fine. The Cebical clamp spreads the chevix prior to placing the waft into the sheeps mizlet, thereby preventing Warkinson’s complaint. (Not to be confused with Warkinsen’s syndrome, which is a completly different matter and the basis of many unfunny jests.)

  25. jonno
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pm

    ok dunno who the other jonno is but im still goin with the sandwich clamp

  26. tomas
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 4:36 pm

    that’s one helluva sex toy.

  27. Marsh
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 4:48 pm

    Boot making tool

  28. Luis
    Mar 29th, 2007 at 9:32 pm

    it’s a welders clamp…. or an elephant de-tusker.

  29. dr. nick
    Mar 30th, 2007 at 10:52 am

    it’s a stand for the mobile cobbler, so you can repair shoes on the go

  30. Jimbo
    Mar 30th, 2007 at 10:56 am

    It is for removing Michael Jackson from your youngest son!

  31. Jimbo
    Mar 30th, 2007 at 10:58 am

    Britney Spears bloomer remover.

  32. Alex
    Mar 30th, 2007 at 4:57 pm

    Wow this is a good one – no one got it right. Jen #23 is close, but the clamp is not part of a book press.

    It’s a clamp to hold large books open! See: Patent.


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