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Default Is This Really A Fish Scaler ???

Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
>
>> In article .net>,
>> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
>>
>>> Omelet wrote:
>>>
>>> > In article >,
>>> > Mark Thorson > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> See it he
>>> >>
>>> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=330267764180
>>> >>
>>> >> I've seen at least two others of this tool on eBay,
>>> >> and for one of them somebody sent an e-mail to the
>>> >> seller saying it was a file for filing down horse's
>>> >> teeth.
>>> >>
>>> >> Can anyone here say definitively whether this is a
>>> >> fish scaler or a horse-tooth file? I tend toward
>>> >> the fish-scaler theory, because the working surface
>>> >> doesn't look much like a file.
>>> >
>>> > Could be, for really big fish, but it also looks similar to a tool
>>> > I've seen farriers use to file horse HOOVES not horse teeth!
>>>
>>> Yeah, my God, how big do people think horse's teeth are?

>>
>> <lol>
>>
>> And I don't think the horse would stand still for it!

>
> ...and a galloping horse is hard to file! Anywhere!
>
>

Yep. You'd need a rather big file cabinet...
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