To enter last week’s Toolsday’s giveaway, you had to identify a round wooden thing that looked like a tricked-out paper towel holder. We had an interesting variety of answers, everything from a pasta dryer, to a foot massager, to a yarn roller, to a guinea pig exercise wheel. Well, all those answers are wrong. Last week’s mystery tool was an antique fishing-line dryer.
We randomly picked one winner out of all the comments and that lucky person is Librarypat who also thought it was a yarn winder. Congrats Librarypat, even though you guessed incorrectly, you still win. You have one week to reply to our email before we pick another winner.
Next Tuesday, we will be giving away a Craftsman 19-Volt Cordless Planer. A necessity for every woodworker, this powerful tool can cut a variety of wood. The adjustable depth and the grooved front shoe makes it easy to create perfect 45-degree chamfered and beveled edges.
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To win the Craftsman 19-Volt Cordless Planer, post a comment (click “comment” above) and tell us what this old-timey gadget is (pictured below). You don’t have to answer correctly to win; we will randomly pick one winner. 
On Tuesday, December 11, we will select the winner then start up a new giveaway for another tool, which will be given away the Tuesday after that.
You have until December 11, 2012 at 2:00pm (ET) to enter to win the Craftsman Cordless Planer.






looks like my grandpa's radio speaker out in his garage circa 1938
looks like my dad camping toaster
reverbaration speaker
Microphone!
I'm still inclined to say it's a speaker. I'll be looking forward to seeing what it is. (And, of course, to see if I win!
Heating coil.
microphone
Radio Microphone
It's most likely a microphone, but with that big speaker like looking thing it might be a combination microphone and monitor so the announcer could get some feedback ! Kind of like a radio in an airplane.
microphone
A microphone or you could send 110v or 220v through the line and use it as a bedwarmer
microphone
a woofer
Microphone
I was going to guess microphone also…not a clue though
Antique Microphone!
The inside of an early speake.r
microphone
I believe it is an old microphone
I think it is an early prototype Bose Speaker
an old broadcast microphone
Microphone
inside of old phone
This looks a lot like an early microphone.
It is definitely an early omni-directional miocrophone. The springs around it keeps any bump or tap on the table it sets on from being noticed.