Can you identify this tool?

[Cliff Rogers]

...tend to grow when they are brought to the surface and warm in the sun. ....

Like certain 24" fish from a couple of weeks ago.

[silentC]

That fish was easily 24". If he really strained hard and pouted his lips

[bitingmidge]

Look if you blokes (and sheilas) are going to do nothing but talk about fishing, I'm not going to tell you the answer till after tea time!

(I do like the fishing stories though!)

P

[silentC]

Is it a fish scaler/gutter?

[Cliff Rogers]

It is actually a fish stretcher for making them appear longer. (after a couple of beers.)

[silentC]

Yes you need one of them. The buggers always seem to shrink when you pull them out of the water...

I'm aware this contradicts an earlier post. So sue me

[Cliff Rogers]

It can also be used as a rack for drying fish.

[Gra]

It can also be used as a rack for drying fish.

Nice rack......

[Cliff Rogers]

Could also be used for mounting a stuffed fish for transport.

[johnc]

Midge,

Might be a good idea to come clean so this thread doesn't end up being a defacto Friday thread, clearly we are all in the no idea category. We would also like to know what possessed you to buy the gizmo in the first place.


John

[bitingmidge]

John,

In an hour or two (more like two), I'll post the instructions. I have to get home to get them though!

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[Cliff Rogers]

..a defacto Friday thread,....

Ar-huh.... That is it, it is a Friday threader.

[bitingmidge]

OK Kiddies, as promised here is the evidence.

The tool is of course one of the extremely popular and wondrously successful Speedy Rug Tufting Tools, made by a wonderful company which went by the name of "By Hand".

Using the tool was simplicity itself, one put some open weave hessian on a frame, threaded the tool with the appropriate grade of coloured rug wool, set the depth of tuft, and pushed away through the long winter's night.

Once the hessian was completely covered in wool tufts to the depth of choice, and presumably in one of the inspiring patterns enclosed, (ours was a brilliant sunflower on a white background), one then coated the back of the thing with latex, fixing it for ever more.

If, like us, your tastes had grown beyond looped pile shag, one could then take to the looped tufts with a pair of nail scissors, or perhaps using Iain's techniques with the dustie and clippers, to create a lovely cut pile.

In the midst of our reminiscing about the good old days when we made our own shag, I enquired of my beloved as to the whereabouts of said rug, surely by now a family heirloom.

"Remember we couldn't stop the dogs peeing on it, so we burnt it..."

Must have been the ammonia in the latex!

cheers, and what was it Ralph used to say?

Respectfully,
P

[echnidna]

When I was a little tacker I wanted a model aeroplane kit.

They got me one of those rotten things instead.
PHOOEY
I never made even 1 rug.

[bitingmidge]

I never made even 1 rug.

Well where did your dogs pee?

P