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MJP

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Bought during today's rust hunt.

8.5" long overall, six vanes, the face of which is slightly convex.

Any ideas?

Martin.
 

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I'll start the betting at 5 pounds with miscellaneous pastry item.
 
Well, this proves that woodworkers aren't short of a sense of humour!

I've got a feeling that it's intended to divide something into six - whether it's shortcake or herbs, who knows?

It isn't hefty enough to be used for chopping herbs, more for dividing pastry or somesuch.

Maybe crushing something relatively frangible?

But I wonder?

Martin.
 
Dunno - I don't think it's heavily enough made to chop anything, the "blades" are just thin sheet, I think it's more for dividing up or maybe breaking up something soft or fragile.

Martin.
 
Well, it might do it once - then it would be too buckled to do a second one!

Martin.
 
it reminded me think of this, which is a cutter/mincer
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which lead to this
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and I think we have a winner. :) food chopper.
 
If we go back to when the blades were new and not weakened by rust, it might have been used as an apple slicer, like this one.

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Bearing in mind it is now quite rusty and fragile, it looks like it could be part of a willow basket makers tool kit. I have seen a similar tool in use by some guys who make ‘salmon putchers’. A putcher is a type of conical basket fish trap, commonly used on the River Severn.

If you look at the tool he is using at 2:25 on this video, there is a three-sided wooden version in use.

https://youtu.be/R0YOP31pMa4
 
Is this it?

Though I still wonder - the vanes of this item are just thin sheet - I would have thought that anything intended for splitting would have had thicker blades.

Martin.
 
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