looks like a vise? but
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looks like a vise? but
anybody know what this is used for
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Although not familiar with the term Donkey's Ear, I agree with nuhobby. It looks like this is intended to be used as a vertical shooting board type of clamp for making 45 deg. miters. (assuming the sloped faces are at 45 degrees)
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What you have there is a pie crust press/shaper for individual pieces of pie. Now, you might think that when you go to a restaurant or diner and order a slice of pie that they have cooked a whole pie and then just cut slices out of that. That may be the case now as just about anybody can go to WalMart and buy a box of stuff they mix with water and turn into a pie. But back when only the highly trained Master Pie Craftsman made pies by hand from scratch, sometimes he needed to make only a single piece of pie at a time. That's where this little tool came in handy. With this "Single Piece Pie Crust Press/Shaper", he could roll out his dough, place a ball of it in the press, press it flat, trim off the excess, and - "voilà!" - he had a pie crust for single piece of pie. This tool traces its roots back to 16th-Century France where French bakers first began making single pieces of pie due to poverty and the oppression of the French aristocracy who demanded everyone eat cake instead of pie.
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Now THAT is 'interesting'!heathicus wrote:What you have there is a pie crust press/shaper for individual pieces of pie. Now, you might think that when you go to a restaurant or diner and order a slice of pie that they have cooked a whole pie and then just cut slices out of that. That may be the case now as just about anybody can go to WalMart and buy a box of stuff they mix with water and turn into a pie. But back when only the highly trained Master Pie Craftsman made pies by hand from scratch, sometimes he needed to make only a single piece of pie at a time. That's where this little tool came in handy. With this "Single Piece Pie Crust Press/Shaper", he could roll out his dough, place a ball of it in the press, press it flat, trim off the excess, and - "voilà!" - he had a pie crust for single piece of pie. This tool traces its roots back to 16th-Century France where French bakers first began making single pieces of pie due to poverty and the oppression of the French aristocracy who demanded everyone eat cake instead of pie.
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You are kidding right??????heathicus wrote:What you have there is a pie crust press/shaper for individual pieces of pie. Now, you might think that when you go to a restaurant or diner and order a slice of pie that they have cooked a whole pie and then just cut slices out of that. That may be the case now as just about anybody can go to WalMart and buy a box of stuff they mix with water and turn into a pie. But back when only the highly trained Master Pie Craftsman made pies by hand from scratch, sometimes he needed to make only a single piece of pie at a time. That's where this little tool came in handy. With this "Single Piece Pie Crust Press/Shaper", he could roll out his dough, place a ball of it in the press, press it flat, trim off the excess, and - "voilà!" - he had a pie crust for single piece of pie. This tool traces its roots back to 16th-Century France where French bakers first began making single pieces of pie due to poverty and the oppression of the French aristocracy who demanded everyone eat cake instead of pie.
I can buy a miter shootingboard I could buy most other things but I fail to see how you would make a slice of pie with this.
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What he said.charlese wrote:Although not familiar with the term Donkey's Ear, I agree with nuhobby. It looks like this is intended to be used as a vertical shooting board type of clamp for making 45 deg. miters. (assuming the sloped faces are at 45 degrees)
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No, not at all!Ed in Tampa wrote:You are kidding right??????
Heath
Central Louisiana
-10ER - SN 13927, Born 1949, Acquired October 2008, Restored November, 2008
-10ER - SN 35630, Born 1950, Acquired April 2009, Restored May 2009, A34 Jigsaw
-Mark V - SN 212052, Born 1986, Acquired Sept 2009, Restored March 2010, Bandsaw
-10ER - SN 39722, Born 1950, Acquired March 2011, awaiting restoration
Central Louisiana
-10ER - SN 13927, Born 1949, Acquired October 2008, Restored November, 2008
-10ER - SN 35630, Born 1950, Acquired April 2009, Restored May 2009, A34 Jigsaw
-Mark V - SN 212052, Born 1986, Acquired Sept 2009, Restored March 2010, Bandsaw
-10ER - SN 39722, Born 1950, Acquired March 2011, awaiting restoration