What Izzit?

[QTCut5]

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

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?

[geocash]

Atlatl?

[eveled]

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]

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.

[kootenay joe]

It is a Hawaiian Haole whacker, used to clear a way through mobs of obese pasty white tourists.
kj

[QTCut5]

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.

You nailed it!!!

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!

It is a Hawaiian Haole whacker, used to clear a way through mobs of obese pasty white tourists.
kj

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!)

Atlatl?

Good guess...it does kinda look like one of those.