It kind of looks like a gauntlet for Ninja fleas! It's pretty cool looking, but I don't think I would touch a hammer with it. Paul On 11/13/12 7:37 AM, "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote: >On 11/13/2012 6:23 AM, David Boyce wrote: >> That's a fantastic thing! Even if it does no good for anything in a >> piano, it *ought* to exist, just by virtue of its sheer ugly beauty! > >It is impressive. From what the last owner told me, it's now well over >50 years old, and is indeed a felt resurrector. Back then hardly anyone >replaced anything but those old cheese flavored bridle straps, and >pretty much nothing was considered to be too much trouble to try to milk >more time out of worn out materials. But then 50 years ago, those >materials weren't as worn out and it might have done something useful. > >The thought has occurred to me that if I was going to use it, I might >want a handle of some sort to get it a bit farther away from the >endangered phalanges. But then I notice a pair of holes in the brass >sides, and wonder if it might not have had a clip on handle originally. > >Shop made tools are always interesting. I wish I could talk to the >builder (Lefty). >Ron N >
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