Only five of 45 guesses about Earl Slack’s mystery tool in our June issue weren’t spoton. Here are two of them. “(It’s) a pencil sharpener,” says Mark Svenkeson. Scott Kooima of Liberty Lake, Washington, adds, “The different size holes would be for the various sized pencils.” Sorry guys, not it!
“Looks like a brace-powered threading tool,” Chip Armstrong believes. “(It) cuts threads in wooden dowels to make handles for any tool,” adds William Todd of Salt Lake City, Utah. Ray Pederson thinks so, too. Well, the brace-powered part is correct, and this tool does modify dowels — just not for threads.
Actually, “it’s an auger dowel tenon cutter,” clarifies David Hollinger, Jim Beers, Randy Wolfe, Mike Paige of Salem, Massachusetts, Harley Fish, Jr., Sean Everett of Cypress, Texas, Carolyne Brush,…
