What's-It from the past

[Papaw]

I showed this as a What's-It years ago on the old Tool Talk.
We did determine what it is, but now I bring it back for the members who may not have seen it.

[keykeeper]

I know, but I'm not telling, yet....lol.

[Lewill2]

I know too, but I'll tender the guess to someone else.

[gibsontool]

I don,t know what it is but I have one exactly the same

[Papaw]

That makes two of us then. I bought it without knowing, just for a What's-It.

[Neals]

No real clue but a wag. A belt laceing tool

[64longstep/Brian]

I have no clue...

[Lewill2]

This is a smaller one but they are both patented.

[Lewill2]

I can't locate where I placed the patent info for Papaw's style but mine was patented March 5, 1872, Patent number 124,383

[gibsontool]

I did some looking thru my notes I keep and the guy that sold me this says he thinks it was a meat tenderizer? could be I quess. I try to keep track of every item I pick up and note where I got it, how much I paid and what it's for. I then transfer these notes to a book listing all my treasures. This was not in my main book but your showing it prompted me to dig thru my pocket notebooks until I found some info on it. Mine says CHATILL pantent nov 30 1915 on one side of the handle and PEERLESS on the other side. Mine is split down the middle so it can be opened , most likley for cleaning if it is in fact a meat tenderizer

[gibsontool]

Mine is also quite a bit different in design than the two that are shown it looks more like a hairbrush with the handle sticking out the side.Some day I will fiqure out how to post pictuers and show some of my unidentified tools

[Papaw]

Yes, it is a meat tenderizer. You should have seen some of the guesses before!
I guessed it was a dovetail cutter, but was way off base.

[Lewill2]

Gibson, I have seen the style that you are talking about before too. I think that style is a little more common then the one Papaw has and I only recall seeing this one of the style that I have.

[rusty]

Papaw wrote:
>I guessed it was a dovetail cutter, but was way off base.

Not all that far off you know, here's a modern one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/LEIGH-DOVETAIL-JIG-D-1258R-12-w-MANUAL-/330607588213?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D3084561009689351746

[Papaw]

I am not much of a wood worker, but I had seen dovetail jigs before, but when I studied this some more, I realized that the blades were not in any arrangement that would cut dovetails.

In researching this tenderizer, I found them as single, hand-held units, and as multiple units on a large rotating machine.