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Offline Les Symonds

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Never made them before!
« on: July 11, 2017, 01:44:14 PM »
I was asked to make several of these the other day....anybody come across them before?

The original is the oak one, my copies are sycamore and beech, with a lignum one thrown in. They're 4.5" overall length, sanded, but to be left unfinished.

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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2017, 02:20:55 PM »
Priest's?
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2017, 03:04:15 PM »
Skipping rope handles ?
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2017, 03:24:09 PM »
Quote from: dr4g0nfly on July 11, 2017, 02:20:55 PM
Priest's?
....at 4.5" that wouldn't knock out a minnow!

Quote from: Dancie on July 11, 2017, 03:04:15 PM
Skipping rope handles ?

....much too small....the centre section is only 3/8" (9mm) diameter, so it would have to be a doll's skipping-string.
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2017, 04:43:12 PM »
Look a bit like the proggers I make but they have that 'bump' on the end which you don't normally get. Might be a variation perhaps?

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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2017, 05:43:51 PM »
Quote from: bodrighywood on July 11, 2017, 04:43:12 PM
Look a bit like the proggers I make ......
What are proggers, Pete?
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2017, 07:30:56 PM »
They're a tool that are used for making things out of strips of fabric such as rag rugs. Some people call them proddedrs but I was corrected by a customer and told they should be called proggers.  The ones I make look like this but they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes as long as they are pointed at one end..

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Offline Les Symonds

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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2017, 08:46:10 PM »
Definitely not that.....


They are prodders of a sort, though.....they have been ordered by a masseur who tells me that they are used for massaging between fingers and toes.

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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2017, 10:39:54 PM »
New one to me. Would imagine they are pretty heavy massage tools in the wrong hands LOL.

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Offline Bryan Milham

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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #9 on: July 12, 2017, 08:20:07 PM »
I'll take a second guess then.

Knowing the area of Wales your in and t here are several wool mills around, something for the wool/textile industry.
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2017, 09:24:11 PM »
Saw you sat at court no1 at Wimbledon again Bryan. ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #11 on: July 12, 2017, 09:25:32 PM »
Quote from: dr4g0nfly on July 12, 2017, 08:20:07 PM
I'll take a second guess then.

Knowing the area of Wales your in and t here are several wool mills around, something for the wool/textile industry.
I can see where you're coming from Bryan,but did you not see my message a little way back in the thread?
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #12 on: July 12, 2017, 10:05:20 PM »
Nope, read the guesses but missed that, strange things people use!
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Offline Paul Hannaby

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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #13 on: July 13, 2017, 07:43:05 AM »
Are they Braille erasers?
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Re: Never made them before!
« Reply #14 on: July 13, 2017, 08:50:35 AM »
Personally, I think that they look just a little phalic, but nope!
Quote from: gwyntog on July 11, 2017, 08:46:10 PM
.....they have been ordered by a masseur who tells me that they are used for massaging between fingers and toes.

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