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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Branson on October 15, 2012, 08:32:47 AM

Title: About that banana knife...
Post by: Branson on October 15, 2012, 08:32:47 AM

The whatsit banana knife makes an appearance on eBay.  Of more interest to me is the tool to the right of the knife.  I have one of these, and haven't been satisfied with the tool identifications I've found

http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLD-WOOD-CARPENTER-SCRAPERS-MALLET-HAMMERS-/360496693660?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53ef47019c

Title: Re: About that banana knife...
Post by: keykeeper on October 15, 2012, 02:08:30 PM

Is that the same banana knife, or another like it?

Tool to the right may be some sort of leading spoon for old school body work.

Interesting.

Title: Re: About that banana knife...
Post by: Branson on October 16, 2012, 08:52:04 AM

Quote from: keykeeper on October 15, 2012, 02:08:30 PM

Is that the same banana knife, or another like it?

Tool to the right may be some sort of leading spoon for old school body work.

Interesting.

Another banana knife, I think.  The other tool is, I believe, too light for body work, and it does have edges that were once sharpened.  Somewhere, this sort of tool was said to be a cooper's scraper for the inside of barrels. 

Title: Re: About that banana knife...
Post by: gtarmkr on October 16, 2012, 05:30:26 PM

Thats not my Banana Knife. Looks like someone else that has no idea what it was. They should have came to tool talk and seen my thread.

Title: Re: About that banana knife...
Post by: wvtools on October 18, 2012, 09:07:27 PM

I believe it is a butcher's knife for removing a tenderloin.  I have had a couple of those and I have a friend who just picked one up.  The blade is pretty flexible.  I have seen some with one handle and some with two.  See page 159 of Sellens for a two handle model.

The one on the lower left is a cooper's scraper with tow floor scrapers above it.