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Tue 29 Oct, 2013 09:10 pm
I'm finally clearing out my garage, a fairly painful thing as I'm sentimental even about tools or old business notebooks. I bring this up since I found, in a small sack of items, something I recognize - it was from my aunt, I'm sure.
But - I don't know what it is, though I once did. I can't even look it up, since I don't know what it is to make a search. But I recognized it instantly, whatever it is.
So........
it is a piece of metal, approx 1" x 2", apparently imbedded with six rows of tacks sticking up, twelve nails each row. That is, the heads of the nails are in the 1 x 2, and the points are sticking out. It's sort of heavy. The tacks bend, as one corner one was bent and I fixed it - they're maleable. I know I knew what this was for, 50 years ago, but not now.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
@edgarblythe,
No way, this is 72 thin nails pointing up from a metal base.
I'm sure when someone tells me what it is, I'll just go.. of course.
Not to use on the cat.
A spit for roasting flies?
@edgarblythe,
I wish. I even had a guest fly in here this week.
@ossobuco,
My aunt Marion was married to Charlie, who I think of as an explorer ( I have his collection of stones of the southwest and his tool box). He was a tool and dye guy at Douglas, in LA mostly: I am guessing head of the union, not sure if there was one, but I was taught he was an intermediary. He died just after some plane got finished, maybe '44 or 45.
@ossobuco,
It's a bed of nails (shakti mat) for a yogi midget?
@Ragman,
No, no, nooooooooo. But it is a small bed of nails, maybe that'll work if I google at much length.
My aunt never heard of yoga and hated japs.*
*My aunt, not me, I showed up later; she lived when the west coast u.s. was worried.
So, she would have been slow at understanding yoga.
@Ragman,
Sounds like a dressing tool for a buffing wheel to me.
@roger,
I'll say a strong no.
Oddly, more delicate.
On tools, I'm fair acquainted - or so I've thought. Habitat for humanity is getting them.
This is something nitsy that I just can't remember and that I may want to keep.
@ossobuco,
if it can be fixed firmly on a surface by screws or some pegs, Id then say it may be a Heckel, which was an old timey menas of carding flax grasses. Youd get a bunch of f;ax in your mit and whip it across the heckle in a singe direction. Te nails sticking out seem to fit that type of instrument.
Heckels were also used in other areas to comb plant material like jute or straw to split the fibers of the plant in a [reffered direction.
Primitives are often worth more than youd think. Something like a heckle was usually always hand made and not produced in a factory,
I just recalled that out your way, they also made ropes and strings from certain succulent plants that have spikey leaves.
@farmerman,
And if it can be fixed firmly on a surface by screws...it could be a tool for stretching (while laying) wall-to-wall carpeting.
Ossobuco...why don'tcha take a picture and post it so we can see it. Even if we can't identify it, we can enjoy the pix.
@Frank Apisa,
yeah. carpet stretcher for laying carpet.
@Ragman,
Maybe. The only ones I've seen were called knee kickers cuz you bumped them with your knee to stretch the carpet. Carpet installers probably have early knee problems.
A wool carder?
(Re-reading, I think your object is too small.)
I just used a knee kicker this morning, for a carpet where I repaired a loose Z bar and tucked the carpet under. I could not get enough carpet until I got somebody else to kick while I tucked, since his legs are young and strong. But a kicker is not what Osso has.
@edgarblythe,
Heres a really fancy set of heckles. Most are just one block of wood or metal with all the nails punched through (5 row of 6 nails is what we have in some of our heckles in our "collection" of fibre crap
wool carders are generally made with finer "carding needles"
@sozobe,
That photo also looks similar to cat brush but not necessarily the answer to OP
@Frank Apisa,
Can't do a photo at present - too much going on to read the directions for unloading from my digital camera (she of little patience), and the nikon of old is kaput, and I don't want to buy a drugstore camera for just one photo.
@sozobe,
That's interesting... my mother and aunt were crazed knitters - knitted dresses, for example. In my confusion, I somehow relate it to the garden - for no good reason.
Maybe I'll force myself to learn how to download my canon dig camera.
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