What Is It? Game 52

By Alex in What Is It on Jan 31, 2008 at 4:02 am

This week’s collaboration with What Is It? Blog brings us this strange object – can you guess what it is?

Place your guess in the comment – no prize this week, you’re playing for bragging rights and fun. For more clues, check out What Is It? Blog. Have fun!

Update 2/1/08 – It’s either a sponge’s diver spear (which is cool) or a weed puller (which is more mundane). Congratulations to Bill #21 who got it right. Funniest but wrong guess by Jason Phelan #15 “It’s a rectal annoyer.”, though I also like Chauss513′s “tool for separating truth from fiction” and Tinito Winner’s “Neanderthal tuning fork.”

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Nicholas
Jan 31st, 2008 at 4:10 am
Railroad spike remover?
NyaR
Jan 31st, 2008 at 4:24 am
Crude cigar holder?
Tamlin
Jan 31st, 2008 at 4:32 am
Potato peeler
Chauss513
Jan 31st, 2008 at 4:57 am
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.
Tim Giachetti
Jan 31st, 2008 at 5:11 am
netting needle, for mending fishing nets.
clairmonde
Jan 31st, 2008 at 6:11 am
spindle for yarn
Jeff
Jan 31st, 2008 at 6:24 am
Whatever it is it looks like it hurts when used.
Sergio Eidi
Jan 31st, 2008 at 6:51 am
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.
Giltwist
Jan 31st, 2008 at 6:51 am
It’s either a divot replacer or a a magic wand for siamese twins.
toldorknown
Jan 31st, 2008 at 6:56 am
Cattle prod?
Miss Cellania
Jan 31st, 2008 at 7:00 am
I think it might be an instrument of torture.
Craig Clayton
Jan 31st, 2008 at 7:10 am
I believe it is used in the making of horse collars to stuff in the straw.
MarkB
Jan 31st, 2008 at 7:22 am
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.
pooja kashyap
Jan 31st, 2008 at 7:41 am
seems it is used for roving o.o
Jason Phelan
Jan 31st, 2008 at 7:56 am
It’s a rectal annoyer.
Amy
Jan 31st, 2008 at 8:32 am
How about a fish scaler remover thingy
MysticFett
Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:02 am
It’s a knife used for eating peas.

The peas sit in the groove and you can just roll them into your mouth.
Ian Richardson
Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:12 am
It is a tool for removing molten lead balls from molds. For the making of musket balls.
Adam Stanhope
Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:37 am
It’s for threading a loom.
Mia
Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:49 am
It’s a peeler, maybe for cheese.
Bill
Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:49 am
This an “OUT-U-KUM” weed puller less its handle.
NiteWhite
Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:54 am
It’s a rib tickler.
sr
Jan 31st, 2008 at 10:41 am
a shoemaker’s needle used to stitch leather for shoes.
miguel
Jan 31st, 2008 at 10:51 am
I think it’s some sort of needle or something related to stitching.
nick
Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:11 am
sort of nail puller, maybe used when replacing the old wood shingles.
Thomas
Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:28 am
Its… The Spear of Destiny!!
Drew
Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:30 am
It’s a pair of boxer-briefs
Cliff Gultch
Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:51 am
It’a a frog gig, for spearing frogs. Happy hunting ya’ll!
shenden
Jan 31st, 2008 at 11:57 am
A colonial potato peeler.
Pat
Jan 31st, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Is it a tuning fork, used to tune pianos?
jack.wh
Jan 31st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
It’s a vegetable peeler – looks just like one I have. Except more rusty!
Don Ede
Jan 31st, 2008 at 1:04 pm
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
Randy D
Jan 31st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Fence post for an electric fence to keep animals out of the garden.
Randall
Jan 31st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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.
Ali S.
Jan 31st, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I think it’s a peeler for peeling!
Larry Sheldon
Jan 31st, 2008 at 3:19 pm
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.
gabrig
Jan 31st, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Potato peeler, for sure. If it’s not a potato peeler, looks just like one.
Christophe
Jan 31st, 2008 at 3:49 pm
It’s a sock.

NO? Come on! This game is rigged!
Alasdair
Jan 31st, 2008 at 4:43 pm
obviously, and early tuning fork.
Pedro
Jan 31st, 2008 at 5:10 pm
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.
Kevin S
Jan 31st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Clearly it’s a golfer’s divot tool which attaches to the putter so it will be on hand when needed.
PT
Jan 31st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I guess it’s a blacksmith’s tool for removing horseshoe nails.
Chauss513
Jan 31st, 2008 at 6:00 pm
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.
NeuroGirl
Jan 31st, 2008 at 6:36 pm
It looks like some type of sewing implement. A rusty, less refined version of the tool used to thread a needle…
Kristii Miskolcy
Jan 31st, 2008 at 9:55 pm
I don’t know the technical term – but I am almost positive that it is used to thread materials through a weavers loom
Tom
Jan 31st, 2008 at 10:16 pm
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…
Tinito Winner
Feb 1st, 2008 at 12:33 am
A Neanderthal tunning fork
jae
Feb 1st, 2008 at 10:12 am
an old trepanning tool?
SarahW
Feb 1st, 2008 at 12:23 pm
It’s a shuttle cock. Holds thread/yarn, tossed through the warp threads on a loom.
Meghan
Feb 4th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I think it’s a tuning fork…
yolande collette
Feb 20th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
i think my parents had something of the kind to make or repair fishing nets .
Kerry
Jun 9th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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.

If Lary Sheldon is checking these responses I would like him to e-mail me at Kerry.Richens@dfat.gov.au

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