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.






This looks like a speaker or microphone. Something old that would be really awesome to just have in my house!!
old fashioned microphone…radio announcer style
old microphone
micophone
Old microphone
Microphone
I'll add my guess to the antique microphone list.
This is a device they used in Area 51 to communicate with extraterrestrials in flying saucers that traveled within our atmosphere. True story.
Microphone
American Ring Microphone, circa 1920's
Rug beater
My guess is, it's some kind of heating unit.
M is for micro
i is for is
c crow
p is for phone
I believe it to be a microphone as well, a heating element wouldn't be suspended by springs like that, it would be coils of Tungsten maybe, but they aren't wired.
Microphone
It looks like the guts of a seriously oldschool studio recording microphone that singers used to use.
top of an old mic
It is an Antique Microphone.
It's an old radio microphone.
I think this is an old fashioned microphone
It is definitely an antique microphone!!!!
Microphone
antique microphone
it looks like an old microphone
Vintage Microphone