What Is It? game 209



It's once again time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog. Can you guess what these things are? Or maybe you can amuse us with an entertaining wild guess!

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many guesses as you'd like in separate comments. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

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Update: Berhard was the first in and had the right answer, too! These are caulking chisels used on a ship, specifically "the Great Lakes schooner Mary A. Gregory, c. 1900." They are now in a museum display. The funniest answer came from Straight Flush, the first of several who mentioned Wolverine, who said "They are cancerous tissue growth removed from Wolverine’s thoracic cavity, not to mention adamantium tissues .. duh!" Both win a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! See the answers to all the mystery items this week at the What Is It? blog.

It seems the image shows a number of chaulking irons for traditional wooden ship caulking.. three straight irons and four reefing irons...

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They are indeed caulking tools. I've seen them before, but never used them being more of a clinker man myself. Carvel built boats are heavier and less flexible, requiring as they do heavier framing.
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Flensing tools. They bring a shudder to me as look upon them. The smell of fresh blubber, the shreeks of the gulls, the creak of the mast, the crisp breaze that takes it away momentarily, but then dies and it all returns. The horror and fascination of the disassembly of the greatest beings on the planet, their blood washing over your boots, the laughter of the other sailor, the bones, their teeth.

God how I miss it.

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Caulking Irons. If you're building a carvel (plank-on-frame) boat, you've gotta have some of these for getting the cotton seated between the planks.
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Caulking Irons. If you’re building a carvel (plank-on-frame) boat, you’ve gotta have some of these for getting the cotton seated between the planks.

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These are without a doubt the Rexidermy T - Dinosaur Skinning Kit - a Tareeshin kit used by the original Doorsha Colonization Expedition. From the slight discoloration and surface abbrasions we can assume that it was used on a Talarurus Plicatospineus at least once. Great Find!

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I am glad you asked Neatorama.

They are cancerous tissue growth removed from Wolverine's thoracic cavity, not to mention adamantium tissues .. duh!

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Everyone who has seen Moonraker should know this one. These are Jaws' incisors and molars. (Heck, you even left his monograms in the photo.)

when worlds collide. large.
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Easy. Wolverine's alternate claws, which he uses for cooking. The flat ones are especially useful for flipping pancakes, or whipping up faaaaaaabulous omelets!

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Worst Day ever...

It's normally not a bad gig. The captain hunts down the whales, then they get harpooned and tied to the side of the ship, then we hop down and start cutting free all the blubber a flensing blade. There's a blade to cut the blubber into strips, and when it's being pulled back there's another blade to help remove it from the rest of the body. Both blades are on poles, because no one likes to kneel on de-blubbered whale.

Norman is one of about a dozen other flensers on the Pequod. Usually I try to give him a wide berth, as he's a serial prankster with a penchant for outdoing himself.

I should have known to watch it that day, especially after I kept getting glimpses of that idiotic grin he wears right before a prank.

Anyway, there I am, pulling cutting away on a slab of blubber, when I take a step backward, and suddenly, I'm up to my neck in the side of a whale. I craned my neck to just enough to see an X cut where I've slipped through into the body cavity of the whale. I wonder where... Oh no! Then the smell hits me and I start yelling. I'm sinking fast, and thinking that I thought they smelled bad on the outside. Pretty soon, the only thing keeping me from disappearing entirely, is my death-grip on my flensing blade.

I'll spare you the rest, though if you're a sick-puppy, you can probably guess at the rest, since I'm alive to tell it.

The best part of the story, which I'll save for another day, is my stinking revenge on Norman.

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hi I think that these are medieval wood planes or de-barkers that are hammered at the ends. this was also the choice murder weapon of the peasants. which explains the blunted narrow end. large I'm not I'm Not Schizophrenic ... And Neither Am I shirt please. or I Wanna Be A Nonconformist Like Everyone Else in the same size
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Those are a selection of Fookhri knives, the weapon of choice of the feared (but small) Ghurkin warriors of Nepalm.

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I saw these on Antiques Goatrope... They are a selection of Hawaiian "Poi Hawlloi" Poi pounders. I mean you can see from the construction that while very nice specimens, these were mass-produced for sale to mainland tourists.
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They are a selection of Hawaiian “Poi Hawlloi” Poi pounders. I mean you can see from the construction that while very nice specimens, these were mass-produced for sale to mainland tourists.

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These are a set of Wisconsin Cheese Sculpting Tools for use with semi-hard to hard cheeses as evidenced by the striking surfaces on the opposite ends. Not shown is the special mallet, or chedderhead, used to provide just the right amount of force without causing undue crumbling (which as any cheese sculptor knows is a major concern when sculpting with semi-hards).

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Thats a set of knife-throwers balanced darts. The flare at the handle allows them to be cradled between the fingers of one hand while the other hand is used for throwing.

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These are The Knifomons. (Shown here at various stages of development) They are the current craze in Japan. You have to dodge-em-all!

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In the field of physics there is a time honored tradition of creating a "blackbody" model. A prize is awarded to the best model of a black body, an object that absorbs all radiation that strikes it. The winner of the first competition was young Maxwell Planck. These are his tools. "Plancking tools", final answer Regis.
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