Saturdays Gizmo Quiz - Dec. 13, 2003

[coconutz]

Recognize this gizmo [images4.fotki.com]? What is it and what is its specific application?

[DrDoc]

Is it a bat of some sort?
Wooden I assume...

[coconutz]

Too small for a bat. Wooden - yes.

[DrDoc]

Tool?
Part of something bigger?

[coconutz]

Tool - yes. Not actually part of, but used with something else.

[DrDoc]

...used with a rope?

too small to be a bat

How small are we talking? ;)

[DrDoc]

They kinda look like the 'sticks' used in the old Viking game 'Kubb' (blocks)

[coconutz]

No ropes involved that I know of.

How small? I'll guess the images may be closer to the actual size than they would be to a bat.

Not for recreational use. ;)

[lawman]

Billy Club?

[lawman]

Or those things they used on wooden ships (can't think what they are called).

[DrDoc]

That's what I was thinking too, lawman... You mean the ones they tied the ropes to?

[lawman]

Yeah I think that's what they were used for.

<added> Didn't Popeye use them to put the smack-down on Bluto?</added>

[edited by: lawman at 7:24 pm (utc) on Dec. 13, 2003]

[DrDoc]

Is it an old war relic of sorts?

[coconutz]

Not a Billy Club or nautical.

Not a war relic.

[DrDoc]

Would it be used by a wood worker?

<added>Like, with a chisel?</added>

[edited by: DrDoc at 7:29 pm (utc) on Dec. 13, 2003]

[coconutz]

Sorry DrDoc - not used in woodworking.

[2oddSox]

Are they pump handles of some sort?

[lawman]

is it used for grinding (as in mortar and pestle)?

[defanjos]

Are they used in food preparation?

[DrDoc]

Is this thingy still used today?

[coconutz]

Not used as handles

Not used for grinding (mortar and pestle)

Not used in food prep

No longer in use today

Used in a similar manner that DrDoc is thinking in msg #15

[DrDoc]

So, in other words, you use it to beat something... or as a hammer, or whatever?

Used in a household?
Used by an artist?

[edited by: DrDoc at 7:39 pm (utc) on Dec. 13, 2003]

[coconutz]

as a hammer, or whatever - yes

Don't believe it was used in a household.

[2oddSox]

are they forming tools of some kind?

[coconutz]

Not used to form or shape something.

[jbinbpt]

Sock darning forms

[coconutz]

Not used to repair sox, I mean socks.

[2oddSox]

are they used with a soft metal like copper or such?

[coconutz]

Used with a harder metal object

[DrDoc]

Is that "harder metal object" some form of chisel?

[edited by: DrDoc at 7:55 pm (utc) on Dec. 13, 2003]