What is it? Game 123 - Neatorama

Whoa, I turn around and it's already time for our weekly collaboration with the always excellent What is it? Blog. Can you guess what the strange tool above is for?

Game rules are simple: place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please. You can enter as many guesses as you'd like. Two prizes: the first correct guess and the funniest yet wrong guess will win T-shirts from the Neatorama Shop. You have until the answers are posted in the What is it? Blog.

For more clues, check out the What is it? Blog. Good luck!

Congrats to Doug Fallon who guessed correctly in the last What is it? Game 122, and to Declan ("the devastator"), Digma03 ("Iron Man's Whisk"), and kminks ("Medieval Purple Nurple device") for the funniest guesses.

Update 1/16/09 - Congrats to wkb who got it right, and to Tim Giachetti who made me chuckle with his entry of ... you'll have to see it for yourself!

Item 1829 is an ultrasonic fogger. Immerse it in fresh water and it'll produce a mist above it. The protruding bit above it is a safety device - it won't function unless the sticky-up bit is submerged.

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It's a device used to pull back the string on a crossbow.

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it's a prop from Saw V

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Its a shoe stretcher

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noah is close. That's an instrument of torture. You don't want to know how they used it.

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And here I thought it was a cocking device for a crossbow.

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Surely it's for stretching the tails of minor devils who have ambitions beyond their means.

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It is either a device for making some sort of cord/rope or it is used for weighing souls like fish in the depths of Hades.

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It's "Ma Smiths' Rectal Wrecker" tm.

She was one kinky Quaker.

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wkb has it right: it's a crank for cocking a crossbow.

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Condom sizer. Like the thingy at the shoe store, but for..other...items...

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it's a back scratcher

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totally awesome, that's what it is.

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LOL Tim!!! Nice!

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It is a 19th Century Penis Enlargement Device. Hence the term, "cranking one off."

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IT is used by Fox News. They put facts in one end and broadcast whatever comes out the other side!

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i dont know what it is.
im scared.

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An edge planer.

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some sort antique ice climbing device

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I THINK YOU USE IT ON A FARM TO LIFT HAY BALES,OR COWS.

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Looks like one of those things they measure your foot with. You know, the things that are freezing cold and have had a million other people's feet all over them.

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It's a Lego mill. In the earliest days of the Lego company, all Lego pieces were crafted by hand using these devices. You would insert a stick of Lego material, usually Bakelite in the early days of Legos, into one side, turn the crank, and it would cut out the posts on one half. Flip it over and run it through the other side, trim to size, and you would have a perfectly-formed Lego.

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this is a wolf trap for lazy hunters ;-)

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a device used to winch corsets on rather plump women

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A terrible fishing pole prototype.

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It is a coach maker's curlie-cue plane.

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Its an old European piercing device developed by Prince Albert himself... ouch!

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