Definitely user made from large needles. My guess is for sculpting or
texturing clay. 

DGW (in CNY were the thermometer read a brisk -32 F (-35C) this morning and
it's now a balmy -6F)

-----Original Message-----
From: OldTools [mailto:oldtools-bounces@s...] On Behalf Of Mark
Pfeifer
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 1:26 PM
To: Brent Kinsey
Cc: oldtools@s...
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Unusual Tools Can Anyone Identify?

My guess is saddlery. 

Hard to gauge size, but if I'm close could have used those when I actually
had horses ...... Leather reins come with metal fixtures to make them
adjustable. I always wanted to lose the metal and stitch them to length...

> On Feb 14, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Brent Kinsey  wrote:
> 
> Just a guess, but I am thinking rug or tapestry repair with the large 
> needle eyes, although with the blues ends from heating in a flame 
> coulee be from streaking cultures on agar plate or carving wax, 
> plastic etc. WAG
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> Brent Kinsey
> 
> 
>> On Feb 14, 2016, at 11:15, Gary Katsanis 
wrote:
>> 
>> There are a couple of locals who look for tools for me. Recently, one of
them came in with some tools that she wanted to sell; she asked me what they
were, and I really couldn't tell her.
>> 
>> More than one of the tools looked like it was blued on the tip, and these
had the look of user-made items.
>> 
>> I think these might be off-charter, but I'm not sure!
>> 
>> http://galootcentral.com/components/cpgalbums/userpics/10072/20160214
>> _085019.jpg
>> 
>> Thanks for any insights you might have, Gary Katsanis Albion New 
>> York, USA where the temp got to -4 last night (-20 C).
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