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.






Antique microphone
old speaker
a vintage microphone
an old microphone
Some kind of heating element.
TV Antenna?
microphone
microphone
A microphone?
antique microphone
old style microphone
I am going with a microphone
old fashioned coil for electric heater or fan.
It's a microphone
Microphone
It's a ring mount carbon microphone used for broadcasting in the 20's, then in the 30's for public address systems and amateur radio use.
I like the answer an old-fashioned heater coil, but it is Carbon Ring Microphone
old radio microphone,
Carbon Ring Microphone that looks to be from the 1920's to 1930's.
i'm guessing that it is a microphone also and i'd love to win a prize
old microphone
Microphone
heating element?
Opium Scale
Part of a weighing scale