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Default Is This Really A Fish Scaler ???

In article >,
ChattyCathy > wrote:

> 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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