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Default Is This Really A Fish Scaler ???



"Mike" > wrote in message
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> "TFM®" > wrote in message
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>> "Omelet" > wrote in message
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>>> In article .net>,
>>> Blinky the Shark > wrote:
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>>>> Omelet wrote:
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>>>> > In article >,
>>>> > Mark Thorson > wrote:
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>>>> >> 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?
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>>> <lol>
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>>> And I don't think the horse would stand still for it!

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>> That's why one person holds the tongue (firmly) while the other files.
>> I was the tongue holder.
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>> TFM®

> Why didn't you nail the tongue to a board
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We'd nail the tongue to a tree when we skinned 'em. Kinda like catfish.

TFM®