Anyone know what this is?

Is it just a paint brush for shellac. Then just take it out and stick it in a can of shellac and it will soften up and be good as new.

-- Mike. mwurm13@yahoo.com

WOW….I’ve been looking for that thing ever since our garage sale 20 years ago. HA HA HA ............No idea but very interested.

-- ericandcandi, Louisiana- Home of the "LSU Tigers"

So that’s whose garage sale my wife got that thing from. LOL Don’t sell anything else to her. That’s an order.

It’s a beater. Like any good beater it had a specific purpose but then someone found you could beat other things with it. It looks to me as if someone was beating something too close to a fire with it once.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Looks like a tool for shaping molten glass on the end of a blow stick.

Just a guess

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DaveR- I’ve been using it as a mallet for chisels.
Gofor- Not sure it it would stand up to the heat of molten glass.
Also, just in case it is not clear in the the pics, the wrap seems to be rawhide.

-- Tim: Remember, if it doesn't say Binford, someone else made it.

I think its a leather strop for honing…..

That’s what you use when your kids get out of line!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

If it is tanned leather, then it could be a strop. If it is rawhide, I don’t know.

-- Always do the Right Thing the Right Way the First Time - if you can figure out what that is! Ken, Spring Branch, TX

mjlauro, kewald- it’s rawhide.
GaryK- better not, I think it would leave a mark!

-- Tim: Remember, if it doesn't say Binford, someone else made it.

I remember taking a much deserving whipping from dad with something resembling this tool.

LoL good luck… Artesano

-- Artesano Taino

looks like some kind of tool used to adjust something that is easily dented. possibly for making windows ?

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

This, my friends, is a rare Indian artifact.

It is from the extinct Yackwee Indian Tribe of the southwestern United States. The Yackwee used this as a kind of muddler for producing alcoholic beverage from cacti. They would knock off the spiny barbs and then beat the cacti into a pulp to extract the juice, which was then fermented into a drink used for tribal celebrations.

Years ago I brought one of these from a Yackwee Indian, but here in Minnesota I use it to kill our large horseflies.

-- Ron in Osseo, Minnesota

lew,

i bet you’re really good at Balderdash.

-- "Who but a fool would discard seeminly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent engineering" -- Aldo Leopold

I go with a forming paddle for molten glass.

Here has a Graphite one That might be a possible replacement. The end being burned means something was hot.

-- What happens in the workshop stays in the workshop. No wait that doesn't sound right. Karson Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Cricket stick for a leprechaun?

-- Rick

Ye olde toothbrush for a hippo. All the bristles fell out.

-- Rich, WNY, www.nyrockingchairs.com

My dogs would just chew on it. But I go with the glass, it was kept wet. There are also round ones. And they use wet newspaper to help shape glass also.

-- Measure once cut twice....oh wait....ooops.

FYI- The dark spot on the rawhide is a stain. It doesn’t look like it has been wet. one side of the rawhide has many small marks that look like they came from hitting something.

-- Tim: Remember, if it doesn't say Binford, someone else made it.

“one side of the rawhide has many small marks that look like they came from hitting something.”

Your chisel? :)

This’ll be obscure: It’s a beater for evening out splices in stranded rope.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

It is called a ‘Pallet’ and it was (modern ones use different materials) used to flatten the bottom of blown glass and occasionally other parts of the vessel. They were soaked in HOT water and the leather would swell to created a cushioning effect. Water and tool had to be kept near boiling else fractures would form in the glass.

Usually the leather is pretty deteriorated and the constant use would break the leather down. It is probably not worth anything but it is nice to see one in such good condition.

Hope that helps

-- The wood slayer - Yes dear I did plan to make more kindling out of that wood I have been drying for the last year - honest!

Yeah, what Andraxia said
:P

-- Regards, Norm

Looks like an attitude adjuster to me :-)

-- Doug, woodworking in Alabama

It’s a whipping stick with a silencer.

-- I'm a lumberjock and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day!

I’m pretty sure it’s what the ancient Celts call a “persuader.” It helps you persuade others do what you want them to do.

-- Steve, Manhattan KS

Could it be a plumbers tool for lead dressing when working with sheet lead That’s what I think it is.Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

When do we get to vote on it?

-- There's no tool like an old tool...

looks like a slapper for sheet metal work. They were used back in the day to persuade fenders and stuff.

-- I intend to live forever, or die trying..........Justin, Ohio

I think it must be a thermothrottle

-- Paul, La Center, Washington

If the end is filled with lead, it might be a stamp stick for tooling leather. It is not like any I’ve seen but that would explain the tool impressions on the rawhide.

-- Thos. Angle

Where’s the bleepin cord and how many jigawatts does it put out.

-- Jim, SE PA

Interesting, several possibilities, thanks for all your ideas. Not sure if I will find out the exact use for this, so for now it’s a chisel beater.

-- Tim: Remember, if it doesn't say Binford, someone else made it.

It’s an antique “hurtmenot”. A traditional 2nd Anniversary gift to the bride.

-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe

Perhaps a pirate is still looking for his favorite and most comfortable fitting wooden leg.

Cut it down and make another koob set. J/K

-- All trees have projects inside of them, it is your job to get them out.

So that’s where it went!

I don’t think anyone knows what they’re talking about here. Sure know I wouldnt want that on my tush. I sure hope the glass blowers know what they’re talking about here.

-- Janice