Hi from northern MN - any idea what this is?

[JLSleather]

Agreed - equally ridiculous regardless of who does it.

[Minnitacki]

On 8/1/2019 at 4:44 AM, mikesc said:

Thanks to everyone for their ideas.  Believe me - our daughter posted it on Facebook and they came back with ice cube lifter and other such silly stuff.  Oh well, so we really still don't know, but it seems like it's a stretcher of some sort.  

A bit further information - the two facing paddles, or whatever they are "really called" each have a male and female area that matches the one on the other paddle, so maybe for getting a good hold on whatever is being worked on.

 

Nah fred.. canvas stretcher pliers don't look like that, they have rectangular jaws, no little "wossit" for the thumb and they have a handle* that consists of two arms, as do pliers..all the ones for chair webbing etc are very similar, always two handles,like pliers, always rectangular jaws..Plus, if you tacked through the holes with canvas tacks..( which have large flat heads ) how would you get the pliers off the framed canvas or webbing again..
Type... canvas stretcher pliers ..into Google ( which will save me digging one of mine out and posting a picture of them ) and you'll see what I mean.

I like the idea of for toasting marshmallows, although on Cow and Chicken, they always used pointy sticks, which I thusly thought must be the American way.

Maybe they are for gelding swans..although you'd have to be quick, 'cos as Bill Oddie said, very often .."A swan can break your arm".

*Yes "a handle" is appalling grammar when talking about two arms, but, you get my drift, I hope.