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It loooks a little like a "Donkey's Ear" hand-planing accessory. For getting a cut bevel or miter fine-planed down accurately. Anyone else?

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)

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.

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.

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.

You are kidding right??????

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.

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)

What he said.

Ed in Tampa wrote:You are kidding right??????

No, not at all!

I have one just like it that I use to hold Colby cheese while I slice it:eek: