What is this tool for?

[Hanni]

Found at work, I tried searching for everything I could think of on Google with no luck, I thought maybe a leather working tool of some kind. There's also the possibility that it is some kind of office tool as it was found there but no one here knows what it is for.

So I turn to the eternal knowledge of CP, anyone know what this this is?

[FanIn80]

That's a Marble Lathe used by sculptors. Marble, being as hard as it is, actually responds better during the sculpting process to a lathe with smoother edges than the more conventional wood lathes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_lathe

[BlackArcher101]

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[Northendzone]

I hope the OP does not work at the house of marbleorsomething likethat

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

That's a Marble Lathe used by sculptors. Marble, being as hard as it is, actually responds better during the sculpting process to a lathe with smoother edges than the more conventional wood lathes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_lathe

Dec 20th and we've got a candidate for most clever post of the year. Well played

[Rudee]

It's a hand tool that professional upholsterer's use when working with Vinyl & Leather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Club

[rayne008]

Originally Posted by Rudee

It's a hand tool that professional upholsterer's use when working with Vinyl & Leather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Club

Un-Thanks for not only being not original, but also for obvious spoiler!

Boo this man!

[Chingas]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

That's a Marble Lathe used by sculptors. Marble, being as hard as it is, actually responds better during the sculpting process to a lathe with smoother edges than the more conventional wood lathes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_lathe

Maybe obvious to some, but how did you make the misleading link??

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Rudee

It's a hand tool that professional upholsterer's use when working with Vinyl & Leather.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_Club

Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooo!

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Chingas

Maybe obvious to some, but how did you make the misleading link??

If you look at the code when you hit quote:

[ URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balderdash"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_lathe[/URL][/QUOTE]

The text that is hyperlinked is not the same as the address that it is directed to.

A link normally looks like this:

[ URL="http://forum.calgarypuck.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3"]http://forum.calgarypuck.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3[/URL]

which produces:
http://forum.calgarypuck.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3


or like this:

[ URL="http://forum.calgarypuck.com/forumdisplay.php?f=3"]this[/URL]

which produces:
this

He just combined the 2 methods, making the second method look like the first.

[Wormius]

My first guess, if it is used in an office environment, is that if looks like it might be used as a tool for prying things apart. You could probably work the head under those large staples that they use for cardboard boxes.

Personally, I would probably use it to scratch myself or poke at things.

[CaptainCrunch]

Butt stuff?

[Nufy]

Its a castration tool to be used only on pedophiles...

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Nufy

Its a castration tool to be used only on pedophiles...

I think you have confused this for a pair of rusty hedge shears.

It's obviously a gentleman's 4-in-1 toothpick, plaque scraper, molar shovel, and tooth extraction tool. It's apparent now that the OP works in a dental office.

[Northendzone]

It is used by fireplace arm guy, he whittles down the ends of certain logs to get them to fit in a certain spot in the firebox

[me_dennis]

more pictures from different angles, taken apart, etc?

[photon]

Yeah, the threaded handle makes me wonder, does the threaded part just end inside that slot (implying it's supposed to grip onto something that fits in the slot). Is the "blade" solid, i.e. looks pretty much the same on the other side? That circle at the tip of the blade, when I first saw it it almost looks like it's to hold something that would rotate, is there something on the other side? At first I thought a glass cutter, but I don't see a gap or rotating blade inside the large blade.

[Hanni]

It's the only picture I have right now, after Christmas I can get some more.

The threaded part ends when it butts up against the inside of that gap, basically like a set screw, it doesn't screw further in to the blade.

The blade is solid, perfectly flat on the underside. So that small circle on the tip is only on the side you see.

[First Lady]

I say it's a Mayan artifact and your uncovering it the day prior to the 21st likely saved the world.


On more realistic note; would knowing where you work or what type of businesses were in the building prior possibly shed some light on this?

To bad we couldn't just scan it into computer and do a CSI image search. One day.

[4X4]

It looks like a handle for a tool that uses disposable blades. Like a fine chisel or something. The back of it goes in the slot and is secured by twisting the handle, and a nub holds the front end of it steady. Then you flip it over and chisel sh*t using your index finger for pressure on the back of the paddle.