Is This Really A Fish Scaler ??? - rec.food.cooking

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From: Omelet <ompome...@gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:16:16 -0500

Local: Sat, Sep 6 2008 11:16 pm

Subject: Re: Is This Really A Fish Scaler ???

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In article <48C307F9.34FC3...@sonic.net>,
Mark Thorson <nos...@sonic.net> wrote:

> See it here:

> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330267764180

> I've seen at least two others of this tool on eBay,
> and for one of them somebody sent an e-mail to the
> seller saying it was a file for filing down horse's
> teeth.

> Can anyone here say definitively whether this is a
> fish scaler or a horse-tooth file? I tend toward
> the fish-scaler theory, because the working surface
> doesn't look much like a file.

Could be, for really big fish, but it also looks similar to a tool I've
seen farriers use to file horse HOOVES not horse teeth!
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Peace! Om

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