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   Maine_tyler | Jan 28, 2012 03:40pm | #1

   is 'gizmo' code for an actual

   gizmo or shoe stretcher?

   So it's a shoe stretcher?

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   BruceS | Jan 28, 2012 09:02pm | #2

   Absolutely

   Wasn't allowed to get a picture in ;-(     The split woodin pieces shaped like a foot are missing.   They get hinged on the two back pegs and the pointy end, when screwed in,  spreads the toe end of the streatcher.

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   swenson | Jan 29, 2012 01:00am | #3

   I think you've got it!

   I think you are right, a shoe stretcher for making the toe part wider with a split wooden foot.  I was beginning to have my doubts about it being a gizmo extractor anyway.  I have been reading the "What is This?" section of This Old House mag too much.  The monthly guessing game with silly answers.

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   RalphBarker | Jan 31, 2012 12:57pm | #4

   Confidence

   Your confidence is re-assuring, Bruce. I'd hate to think that you had simply cobblered together an answer.  ;-)

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   joinerswork | Jan 31, 2012 05:43pm | #5

   Ralph,

   It takes a real heel to make a pun that bad.  Have you no sole?

   Ray

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   RalphBarker | Feb 01, 2012 09:03am | #6

   the pun, the pun

   Chuckle.  My convoluted brain just laces these things together, Ray.