Heres a patented (tool?) from 1948. Ever own one or used one? Patent no is 2474100 in case you want to know more about it. Have had this one for quite a while but hadn't noticed the teensy little patent no until recently. Took a pretty good glass for my tired old eyes to decipher it. Haven't seen one before but assume its about due for a renaissance or a come back. whichever.

What is it, if i may ask?

Quote from: Nolatoolguy on May 21, 2011, 10:22:59 PM
What is it, if i may ask?

ice breaker http://www.google.com/patents?id=hE5jAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA1&dq=2474100&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

I think my mother still has one in her kitchen drawer. Hurts pretty bad when your brother wacks you with it too.....

I vote for a demonstration! According to the patent it will break ice cubes smoothly and in even chunks for mixed drinks, with little shaving and water loss!

What Jimwrench failed to tell you is that I found that little cutie under the deep freeze I helped him move out of the utility room.  I am guessing that it didn't rank very highly on his tool priority list...

 I truly didn,t know where it came from. I tried it on a ice cube and the cube is still laughing. Think a ball pein hammer is a better tool.

>I vote for a demonstration!

I thought Texans drank their whiskey straight up!

Next you will be telling us about Jello shots...LOL

These were used to break up ice cubes.  For right-handers, one held the cube in the palm of the left hand. The cube was then struck with a downward stroke, beginning at a distance of about 12 inches from the cube and using a wrist snap. The cube fractured into 3 - 5 main groups which were then dumped into the glass.  This was done with several cubes in succession until the glass was filled with a sufficiency of ice shards. Liquor poured over the cubes would chill rapidly because of the increased surface area of the cooling medium, e.g. the ice. 

I remember seeing these.  Seems to me they were making the rounds again in the '60s.  The whippy handle was supposed to increase the impact or something like that.