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Thread: Can you identify this tool?
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6th June 2007, 01:40 PM #46
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6th June 2007, 01:43 PM #47
That fish was easily 24". If he really strained hard and pouted his lips
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6th June 2007, 02:54 PM #48
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
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6th June 2007, 02:55 PM #49
Is it a fish scaler/gutter?
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6th June 2007, 03:04 PM #50
It is actually a fish stretcher for making them appear longer. (after a couple of beers.)
Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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6th June 2007, 03:06 PM #51
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
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6th June 2007, 03:15 PM #52
It can also be used as a rack for drying fish.
Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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6th June 2007, 03:28 PM #53I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
My Other Toys
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6th June 2007, 03:59 PM #54
Could also be used for mounting a stuffed fish for transport.
Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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6th June 2007, 04:09 PM #55
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
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6th June 2007, 05:01 PM #56
John,
In an hour or two (more like two), I'll post the instructions. I have to get home to get them though!
P
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6th June 2007, 05:31 PM #57
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6th June 2007, 09:02 PM #58
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
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6th June 2007, 09:08 PM #59
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.
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6th June 2007, 09:17 PM #60
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