What is this?

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Just for fun, but something to wrestle your thinking parts over perhaps!

I do know what it is and have frequently used it professionally, but not in my workshop. It is made out of a pale fine grained hardwood – birch perhaps? Grubby finger for scale.

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

My answer is rude and I've had to censor my own post!

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 21/03/2022 17:00:33

[David Millar 3Participant @davidmillar3]

It looks like part of a fishing float but not sure if you'd use that "professionally"!

[DiogenesIIParticipant @diogenesii]

Fid?

[Nick WheelerParticipant @nickwheeler]

Posted by DiogenesII on 21/03/2022 17:52:42:

Fid?

Don't those need a groove for the rope? The ones I've used and made have them.

[MichaelRParticipant @michaelr]

Maybe a bit small but it has the looks of a Rug Prodder.

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

I'll eave this up until the end of the day when I'll post the answer (unless anyone gets it right first)

While not engineering as such it is a clear use of simple technology to solve a real problem.

[john halfpennyParticipant @johnhalfpenny52803]

Something for opening up a woven material, for sewing? -maybe sailcloth or sacking

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, for putting a couple of holes in your gold tops, so you can control pouring your milk out, also useable on silver tops for the more common amongst us.

Regards Nick.

[Ian ParkinParticipant @ianparkin39383]

Catheter plug?

[pgk pgkParticipant @pgkpgk17461]

A vertical plumb-bob for use in flooded cellars?
For stretching heat shrink when you bought a size too small?
For stippling the top of a pastry pie and contouring icing?

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 21/03/2022 16:59:46:

My answer is rude and I've had to censor my own post!

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 21/03/2022 17:00:33

Put it this way: If a doctor produced a couple out of his bag, I'd be nervous.

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Hopper on 22/03/2022 16:47:39:

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 21/03/2022 16:59:46:

My answer is rude and I've had to censor my own post!

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 21/03/2022 17:00:33

Put it this way: If a doctor produced a couple out of his bag, I'd be nervous.

We're on the same page…

[Peter Cook 6Participant @petercook6]

Dibber for planting out and thinning out seedlings in the potting shed.

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

I have been truly frightened by some of these answers!

It is a braille eraser used to flatten braille dots that have been embossed incorrectly

This video demonstrates.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MtDLqgoZdo

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 22/03/2022 18:57:41

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 22/03/2022 18:58:34

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