What Is This Mystery Tool?

[beamjockey]

Years ago, a departing colleague bequeathed his toolkit to me. It contained a peculiar tool, like long-handled diagonal cutters, but with an additional cylinder attached to one handle. The cylinder sprouts a knurled knob on a barber-pole shaft.

Do you recognize this widget? I've been mystified for years.

Comments

[bigblued.livejournal.com]

Those are wire twisting pliers. This video will show you how they are used. I will happily take them off your hands if you don't want them.

http://www.eurotool.com/video1.html

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Seventeen minutes. Impressive. My previously-baffled family thanks you.

[bigblued.livejournal.com]

They are used in both jewelry making and stained glass work, so I had run across them before. The 17min was because it took a while to figure out the correct name for them, and then find some kind of image/web page/video that would best explain how they worked.

The hive-mind knows all.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Ah--a cool toy!

[johnridley.livejournal.com]

Damn, beat me to it. Bill's fault for posting after I went to bed :)