What Izzit?

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What Izzit?

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...is what I asked my friend who made it when he presented this to me. ::shrug::

It's made of apricot wood and measures approximately 11" in length.

Anyone have any idea what the intended purpose of this curiously shaped "tool" is? ::hmm::
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Atlatl?
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It looks like its shaped to fit the inside of a jar. To scrape the sides and the curve at the top and bottom.
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eveled wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:46 pm It looks like its shaped to fit the inside of a jar. To scrape the sides and the curve at the top and bottom.
I agree, it would be handy for peanut butter jars. Very pretty wood grain, nice piece.
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It is a Hawaiian Haole whacker, used to clear a way through mobs of obese pasty white tourists.
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eveled wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:46 pm It looks like its shaped to fit the inside of a jar. To scrape the sides and the curve at the top and bottom.
C-WADE7 wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:52 pm I agree, it would be handy for peanut butter jars. Very pretty wood grain, nice piece.
You nailed it!!! ::tu:: ::nod::

Apparently there's an accompanying "mostly true story" about some sailors serving on a submarine who either smuggled a big jar of peanut butter onto the boat or stole one from the kitchen onboard and when they got down to the bottom of the jar/tub discovered they didn't have anything long enough to reach the remaining spread. One of the men had a shoe horn with a long handle that he re-fashioned into a "jar bottom-scraper" which gave my friend the idea for this tool. Gotta respect that swabbie sea-dog innovation! :D
kootenay joe wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 6:18 pm It is a Hawaiian Haole whacker, used to clear a way through mobs of obese pasty white tourists.
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LOL! :lol: Actually, that's the second function of a longboard (reserved primarily for naïve, hapless Haoles who foolishly try to surf at a "locals only" reef break!) ::uc::
geocash wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 1:15 pmAtlatl?
Good guess...it does kinda look like one of those. ::nod::
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In the master's chamber they gather for the feast.
They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast.
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