MWTCA April 2024 What's It Project (4-2024)

[John Morris]

"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.

 

The insert in each one is a piece of rubber, not wood. About 8 inches in length and the business end is 5 1/2 inches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Grandpadave52]

Old era window squeegees for automotive use.

[HandyDan]

Vintage tile grout applicator paddles.

[Ron Dudelston]

Paddles to apply ink on a printer’s platen. 
 

 

[Grandpadave52]

Building on Ron's idea, squeegee for applying ink for silk screening.

 

Edited April 5, 2024 by Grandpadave52

[HARO50]

Slight differences in shape could mean they're homemade.

[Grandpadave52]

OTOH, they might be icing spreaders for donuts.

[Gene Howe]

Ron and Dave should have it. 

[HandyDan]

[Gerald]

Paddles for working CHOCOLATE !! when it is poured out on a slab. Hey : My name is Gerald and I am a chocaholic .

[John Hechel]

while inking and screen printing seem logical the lack of ink or paint residue where the rubber meets the wood lends me to think that's incorrect.
I also do not see much abrasion on the wood so maybe we could rule out grout application? 
The wood looks to be mahogany with a shellac finish. Also very little wear on that finish or the wood itself. Looking at the picture there are cross grain scallops from a rotary head planer on the left piece so we can deduce these might be less than a century old. 
 

Therefore: it is my best deduction that one (or more) of our members who are "very experienced in life" made these just to stump the rest of us.

[aaronc]

I don't know...but as said with the lack of stain on the paddles....could they could just be for old timey window cleaners ??    Maybe even at the old service stations ?

[steven newman]

Might have been used in hanging wall paper...gotta git them air bubbles smoothed out..

[aaronc]

24 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Might have been used in hanging wall paper...gotta git them air bubbles smoothed out..

 

 

Strong  guess. 

[p_toad]

wow, google image search pulled up these exact images on an ebay sale and they don't know what they are either...

[John Morris]

1 hour ago, p_toad said:

wow, google image search pulled up these exact images on an ebay sale and they don't know what they are either...

That's where I got the images from Peter.

[steven newman]

Lowes sells a plastic version, everyday...

[p_toad]

On 4/11/2024 at 2:50 PM, John Morris said:

That's where I got the images from Peter.

[DRAGON1]

Chinking blades for ships or log cabins for pushing in caulking or fillers between shiplap boards or logs

[Grandpadave52]

And the winner this month is