The whatsit banana knife makes an appearance on eBay. Of more interest to me is the tool to the right of the knife. I have one of these, and haven't been satisfied with the tool identifications I've found
http://www.ebay.com/itm/OLD-WOOD-CARPENTER-SCRAPERS-MALLET-HAMMERS-/360496693660?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item53ef47019c
Is that the same banana knife, or another like it?
Tool to the right may be some sort of leading spoon for old school body work.
Interesting.
Quote from: keykeeper on October 15, 2012, 02:08:30 PM
Is that the same banana knife, or another like it?
Tool to the right may be some sort of leading spoon for old school body work.
Interesting.
Another banana knife, I think. The other tool is, I believe, too light for body work, and it does have edges that were once sharpened. Somewhere, this sort of tool was said to be a cooper's scraper for the inside of barrels.
Thats not my Banana Knife. Looks like someone else that has no idea what it was. They should have came to tool talk and seen my thread.
I believe it is a butcher's knife for removing a tenderloin. I have had a couple of those and I have a friend who just picked one up. The blade is pretty flexible. I have seen some with one handle and some with two. See page 159 of Sellens for a two handle model.
The one on the lower left is a cooper's scraper with tow floor scrapers above it.