"What's It" Basic Rules Reminder

For a full run down on this project and rules please go to: "The Patriot Woodworker and MWTCA "What's It" project"

• Only Patriot Woodworker Members are eligible to participate and receive the award.
• The MWTCA only accepts a verified source to support your answer, so one should be submitted with your answer, such as a patent, catalog entry, tool book reference, or a respectable website on the subject. Do not let these requirements prevent you from having fun and submitting educated answers on the subject without verification, we can worry about references later. All answers are welcome, as well as healthy debates regarding "What's It".
• If a verified and referenced answer is not arrived at by the end of each month's "What's It" project, a random draw will be performed for a "One Year MWTCA Club Membership".
• Only Patriot Woodworker's who participate in this "What's It" topic will be included in the random draw.

 

Additional What's It Rules

• Unless you are completely sure what this item is, please avoid "definitive statements" that appear that you are without a doubt claiming that you know what the item is. For example stating, "this item is called a "widget xx" used for "insert purpose here". If you are making a definitive statement you must accompany your statement with evidence or proof from a secondary source.
• An example of acceptable statements within the realm of having fun and educated guesses would be something like this, "I believe it could be", or "It appears it's made for this or that", etc etc etc...

 

Ok ladies and gentlemen, we now have our "What's it" live and ready!

The image(s) below is a MWTCA "What's It" image for you to research, and tell us all here in this topic post, just what the heck is it!

 

Project Details

The information provided hereon is all the information that is provided, no further information on this item will be added.

 

 

 

I will go out on a limb here and take a stab.  Since there is an edge guide and a blade, I will hazard a guess that is a tool to create and/or trim wallpaper borders.

I'm thinking an edge band cutter. Cuts it from sheet veneer and rolls it up 🤓

I was thinking a tool to trim strips for basket weaving. 

cutter for making belting from leather

I'm going to put my money with Cliff.  Has all the same features as this just more elaborate.

 

I think it has to do with leather cutting, processing or such.

Leather belting  cutter...or....one very fancy Cheese Slicer?

Looking more like the missing part of a Pasta Maker Machine...black "arms" fit into the machine, and lock at the required height/thickness  

On 2/6/2024 at 9:07 AM, steven newman said:

Looking more like the missing part of a Pasta Maker Machine...black "arms" fit into the machine, and lock at the required height/thickness  

Ooooooohhh Steve, nice one! Now we are thinking outta da box! Good one!

Second thought...a jig to join the ends of a leather Belt to drive line shaft tools...They used a metal stitching and needed a way to clamp the 2 ends in place, while they Hammered the stitching in place,,,,sometimes, there was a metal rod to hold the 2 halves in place...but that was more for Conveyor belts...

Line shaft belts needed to be smooth at the joints...

 

Stanley even made a "Belting plane" to taper the ends of the splice,,,then they were stitched back together...IF I remember correctly....that is the reason for that slot in the jig.

 

Winner

@Pauley is the winner of this months What's It, the suggestions were pretty close for all, so we went to random draw from a hat and Pauley popped to the top, congratulations Pauly!

 

Award

Pauley, for your participation you have won a 2024 Calendar Year membership into the MWTCA.

Please Private Message me your contact info, shipping address, spouse or significant others name (if applicable).

Thank you all for your participation!

 

Links

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• https://mwtca.org/the-gristmill/
• https://mwtca.org/special-publications/

 

Gristmill Magazine Sample

 

What?  I looked at that photo and made a very wild guess.

1 minute ago, Pauley said:

What?  I looked at that photo and made a very wild guess.

So did everyone else Pauley, random draw for the winner in this case, congrats!

Congrats Pauley

Congrats @Pauley.