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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Bill Houghton on August 18, 2015, 05:09:42 PM

Title: A friend of ours brought this wooden thing by
Post by: Bill Houghton on August 18, 2015, 05:09:42 PM

I'm totally flummoxed.  Wood (birch or similar) with a little trough on one side of an oval shape, and raffia or cornshuck "ropes" through holes on each side of the trough.  Any ideas?

Title: Re: A friend of ours brought this wooden thing by
Post by: Chillylulu on August 18, 2015, 05:56:19 PM

If it was cherry ir another fruitwood, and because of the char, my swag is that it is  a glassworking paddle.
Soaked in water and used formjng hot glass.

Chilly

Title: Re: A friend of ours brought this wooden thing by
Post by: Branson on August 19, 2015, 11:12:09 AM

Quote from: Chillylulu on August 18, 2015, 05:56:19 PM

If it was cherry ir another fruitwood, and because of the char, my swag is that it is  a glassworking paddle.
Soaked in water and used formjng hot glass.

Chilly

Agreed.

Title: Re: A friend of ours brought this wooden thing by
Post by: Bill Houghton on August 19, 2015, 03:17:43 PM

My bride's niece (I guess that makes her mine, too, and damn proud I am that she is) ID'ed it: it's a "bats-head" used on colonial-style spinning wheels.