Re: [OT] Need help finding a tool...

[Andrew Kilgore <andrew.kilgore@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,

Anything like this...?
http://tinyurl.com/75q7v

Thanks,
Andy.


On 7/3/05, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> ... About ten years ago I was given a little hand tool by a friend who
is no
> longer around. He described it as "probably the most usefull tool
you'll
> ever have" and he was right - it has gone *EVERYWHERE* with me
since. It was
> pretty much a simple wire hook made from a piece of small diameter
tapered
> steel about 2-3mm diameter at its thickest with a large thumb-loop at
one
> end and a specially shaped hook at the other (tapered) end. The trick
in the
> tail was that the hook had a little extra bit on the end of it which
is
> almost impossible to describe in words but maybe I could knock up in a
> diagram.
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> Anyway ... Sometime over the last month or so it seems my little tool
has
> gone walkabout and I would *DEARLY* love to find another. Whilst I had
it I
> had taken it to various places to see if they could identify what it
was
> (craft shops, needlework shops, crochet shops etc, handicraft shops,
fishing
> shops etc.) and no-one was able to identify it.
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> Is there anyone that thinks they might be able to have a shot at
identifying
> what it actually was? If you think you might know then can you drop me
an
> email off-list and I'll try to knock up a little drawing of it for you
to
> take a look at.
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> Phil
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