Last Toolsday, we posted a photo of a metal gadget with a wooden handle and asked you to tell us what it is used for. Popular answers included bottle opener, a speciality wrench and a tool used to remove nails from a horse’s shoe. The real answer is a dental key. It’s a tool that was used in the early 1800s to extract teeth – ouch!
We randomly picked one winner out of all last week’s comments and that lucky person is Doug, who thought it was a pair of tongs for carrying cylindrical objects. Congrats Doug, even though you answered incorrectly, you still win. You have exactly one week to reply to our email before we pick another winner.
Next Tuesday we will be giving away a Craftsman Angle Grinder. The cordless 4-1/2″ grinder is designed for comfort and ease of use. It comes with an auxiliary handle that can be adjusted to three different positions. The powerful 19.2-volt motor allows for 6500 RPM no-load speed so you can get the job done fast.
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To win the Craftsman Angle Grinder, post a comment (click “comment” above) and tell us what this little device is called. You don’t have to answer correctly to win; we will randomly pick one winner. 
On Tuesday, January 22, 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 January 22, 2013, 2:00pm (ET) to enter to win the Craftsman Angle Grinder.
Official Rules.






to remove a boot or polish a boot
Its a PRIMITIVE VINTAGE ANTIQUE WOODEN BOOT JACK
Its a vintage boot jack, used to remove one's boots
Its a boot jack
I agree, its a boot jack
Boot or shoe remover
It is used to remove boots.
Boot jack
a wood plane
boot remover
its used to help pull your boots off
This is a tool for removing boots from feet.
boot jack aka the reversible Shoe Horn !
Boot jack for taking off boots
Boot Removed. I purchased one of these in Germany several years ago from Aldi and it works wonderfully!
It is a boot remover
Boot Jack
Must agree with the previous comments–looks like a boot jack for taking off boots.
Old Fashioned Clothes Pin.
Every ones got this ah boot jack to remove your boot while standing up
shoe horn
A boot jack used to take off my cowboy boots.
Bunk House boot jack
Antique Boot Jack
A piece of the Fiscal Cliff or a boot jack-Take your pick.
Boot Jack.
for removing boots
its a tool to carve wood
Boot jack
for removig boots
To remove cowboys or a type of boot while standing
mini scapeboard ramp?
Did you mean "skateboard" ramp?
It's for taking off boots.
shoe horn
this is a boot jack.
or boot scraper
Old Time Boot Jack
You obviously know boots!
yup, its a boot jack
it is a boot jack
a shoe horn?
some kind of alignment tool
I think it is a boot jack also
it is one of the first cloths pins
SHOE HORN
Either a boot jack or deer caught in the headlights!
this is used to scrape the bottom of your boots after being outside working on the farm. My husband should would love to have this tool in his garage.
The Craftsmen, not the boot scraper. LOL!!!
its a wood plane
I agree. It's the thing that you put one foot down on, while using it to help give you leverage as you use it to pull off the other shoe/boot. Personally, I just use the toes on my other foot to do so.
That's what my grandfather used. ; )
yes i say that to a wooden boot jack
yep, it's a boot jack!
must be a boot jack
it's snow shoes or roofing shoes