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.






It's a piece of wood
This is used to help you remove your boots.
Its the gas pedal to the first car! LOL
boot jack for taking off boots
It is a boot jack…looks homemade
It is a boot jack and it looks home made.
Boot puller. To remove your boots.
It is a shoe jack – used to put shoe on and also to take shoe off.
used to remove boots
boot jack, used to pull one boot off at a time while holding it down (stationary) with the other…
boot jack
Used by us fat guys to remove our boots.
It's for pulling off your boots. The heel of the boot goes into the cut out crotch on the board and hooks. Then you pull your fooy out.
it could be a pry bar
This is used for removing boots.
I thought it was an antique clothes pin, but noticed it had no way to open. Then I rememberd my huband used one to get his boots off.
A boot remover
If thats a boot jack a lot of people must of had splinters back in the day. lol I say its a wooden wedge.
removing boots
Boot Jack
I started to say clothes pin, but could not see an opening. I remembered that my husband used one like it to pull his boots off.
shoe horn
wooden anvil
a clamp
A wooden shoe horn.