Show Off Your Unusual Tool, If You Have One.

[Fire Lord Jim]

Home made tool. What makes this unusual is the replacement of the knurled adjustment knob with an eye hook. Add a rope or wire and the functionality expands.

 

[rick81721]

Anyone know what this thing is? Think I got it from my uncles house we were cleaning out. He had a bunch of metal working tools. Foot for size reference:

 

[Magic]

Anyone know what this thing is? Think I got it from my uncles house we were cleaning out. He had a bunch of metal working tools. Foot for size reference:

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Nail puller.

 

[MadisonDan]

Nail puller.

Toe or finger?

 

[Kaleidopete]

A tool for removing adenoids (throat)
You insert the bucket and position it just below the offending adenoid.
Raise the bucket up and push the lever which moves the razor edge cutter,
thereby sniping the adenoid off and catching it in the bucket.
No. I've never done this.

 

[Karate Monkey]

Pic dump:

From the top:

Felt bushing 'reamers' (files, really)
Hammer 'puller' for removing the hammers/shanks from an upright piano
Steinway wire bending tool (specifically for backstops on upright pianos, but usable elsewhere)
Mostly wire-bending tools, and a handful of specific screwdrivers/wrenches for pianos (necessity is the mother of invention)
A tuning 'hammer' (so called, since the factory tool was used to drive tuning pins into the pin block with a hammer)
A mute for silencing high strings during tuning
A block for propping the lid of an upright piano off the wall/piano/you while tuning
Old power drill. Yes, it still works, and I suspect, will continue to work far after I'm dead (it's on its third generation, currently).
Tool specifically for extracting XTR cranks, extant for only one generation. One side installs, one removes. Note the through drilled hole, for slipping a 5mm hex key through for leverage while installing/loosening.
Modern, high-quality hanger alignment tool. Not special, just most don't see these, I would imagine.
A pistol-grip, ratcheting screwdriver made by Schröder for Craftsman. The Germans were obsessed with ergonomics before it was a 'thing'.

 

[serviceguy]

A tool for removing adenoids (throat)
You insert the bucket and position it just below the offending adenoid.
Raise the bucket up and push the lever which moves the razor edge cutter,
thereby sniping the adenoid off and catching it in the bucket.
No. I've never done this.

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I think you meant tonsils ?

 

[stb222]

A tool for removing adenoids (throat)
You insert the bucket and position it just below the offending adenoid.
Raise the bucket up and push the lever which moves the razor edge cutter,
thereby sniping the adenoid off and catching it in the bucket.
No. I've never done this.

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[Zaskar]

Anyone know what this thing is? Think I got it from my uncles house we were cleaning out. He had a bunch of metal working tools. Foot for size reference:

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Nail clipper

 

[taylor185]

my contribution. simple but effective.

 

[Kaleidopete]

A Circle cutter for glass.

 

[qclabrat]

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my contribution. simple but effective.

what's it for?

 

[taylor185]

what's it for?

Holdfast. like a clamp but better. good explanation and pics here

One swing of a hammer sets it and one tap on the shaft releases it.

I built a workbench like the below a few years back. Greatest tool one can have. From Christopher Schwarz's, "The Workbench Design Book"

 

[Patrick]

AKA: Bench Dog
cause of the sound they make setting/removing

 

[jmanic]

Holdfast. like a clamp but better. good explanation and pics here

One swing of a hammer sets it and one tap on the shaft releases it.

I built a workbench like the below a few years back. Greatest tool one can have. From Christopher Schwarz's, "The Workbench Design Book"
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I'm still seeing bottle opener.

 

[taylor185]

AKA: Bench Dog
cause of the sound they make setting/removing

not to start an argument but bench dogs are what you place in a bench hole so you can clamp or push against it. holdfasts are the clamp. to start a real argument: do you prefer your dogs round or square? wooden or metal?

 

[Patrick]

not to start an argument but bench dogs are what you place in a bench hole so you can clamp or push against it. holdfasts are the clamp. to start a real argument: do you prefer your dogs round or square? wooden or metal?
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i'll defer - just something i recalled from shop 100 yrs ago. looks like it was a miss.
my woodworking always includes lots of caulk to hide the joints......

 

[Magic]

not to start an argument but bench dogs are what you place in a bench hole so you can clamp or push against it. holdfasts are the clamp. to start a real argument: do you prefer your dogs round or square? wooden or metal?
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Festool MFT clamps is the correct answer.

 

[Pearl]

The item on the right is a steerer tube cutter.
The item on the left is a lefty stem removal tool.