It's the aluminium angle bit in the middle that puzzles me ...

I'd say that is either a guide of some sort,
or the mounting point for the return spring for the moving arm.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Is it red and silver or blue and gold?

:)))

complex answer alert!!!

It's not the blue and gold one, Carlos, because that one's lilac and silver and described as being cute and fitting into the palm of your hand :) which is why I immediately decided I wanted it, until I saw a bigger, silver one which I immediately decided I wanted even more because that lets you SEE the mechanics of what it's actually doing :) and recall in graphic detail how you come to receive any non-lethal injuries you may sustain THIS one IS red and silver (and perhaps a little bit fuschia-ary-pinky in places with a splodge of black detail) and apparently "fast and friendly" too. Having come across the silver one, I now have a better understanding of why they chose that description :) But there is another red one I came across that seemed to have a lot more silvery bits on it...and I'm beginning to really want to have posted that one instead :) .... possibly diagonally...

Chris was close with reference to paper, but it is not a punch...looks like a cutter blade...
Would this be used in the Gift-Wrap booth at a Department Store?

It is most definitely a paper tool and it most definitely cuts it with a blade, Donald, yes :) I would think the labour-intensive nature of what follows the device's use, might make it unlikely to be used in-store in a gift-wrap booth, but the products subsequently made from it would/could be.

You're definitely on the right track :) with two options open to you
A.
and
B.
:)
and identifying one of them should be enough to lead you to what the tool actually is :)

Anecdote warning:
Around 15/20 years ago my sister was looking for a tool within the field that this one falls into. I'd never even heard of the field, and at first thought it was a typo in her email :) She lived in Tanzania, I lived in London. SHE thought I would be able to get one for her "really easily". Yeah right. Like THAT worked. I'd have had much greater success looking for it in town and village shops, and much less likely to have been regarded with the deep suspicion that I'd come from another planet and was attempting to source a part that would ultimately destroy the earth :) She had no problem getting it in Morogoro however, and offered to send me one from there instead :)

Is it used in paper tole?

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Is it used in paper tole?

If paper tole is what I think it is, Bill, another name for 3D decoupage (?) then no - it is not used for producing decoupage (paper tole). But the end products, when combined, can be very impressive.

Ooooooooooooooooooooh... you're getting sooooooooooooooo close :)

Is it used in paper tole?

If paper tole is what I think it is, Bill, another name for 3D decoupage (?) then no - it is not used for producing decoupage (paper tole). But the end products, when combined, can be very impressive.

Ooooooooooooooooooooh... you're getting sooooooooooooooo close :)

Yes, I meant 3D decoupage.

Some other paper based art form, then?

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Yes, I meant 3D decoupage.

Some other paper based art form, then?

Yes - some other one :)

That will get you halfway there. Then you will need another word :) and that word will relate to the effect the tool produces...

For die cutting shapes out of paper?

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For die cutting shapes out of paper?

There MIGHT be a version of this tool that will do that as well as what this one specifically does, but I can't find any mention of it, Bill. Even after scouring the internet for about three minutes...

However...
Re my prior HUGE hint... (reproduced below:

A.
and
B.

... and again above...) for which you are all very, very welcome by the way :)

...If we make "A" the name of the paper based artform...
like this:
A. Name of paper based artform

...and make "B" the thing it does to the paper...
like this:
B. The thing it does to the paper.
*pause to admire generous showering of the even more magnificent beneficence just heaped above*

... and if I pop in something from my earlier anecdote...
A. Name of paper based artform (is what I thought was a typo for a cloth-based activity)

...and then I add this... (a word in common use in many areas, but one which, when a particular suffix is added to it - can make for some ambiguous ways of pronouncing it - particularly if you haven't got a clue what on earth it is someone's going on about in the first place :)

to this...
B. The thing it does to the paper.

like this...
B. The thing it does to the paper (a word in common use in many areas, but one which, when a particular suffix is added to it - can make for some ambiguous ways of pronouncing it - particularly if you haven't got a clue what on earth it is someone's going on about in the first place :)

...and if you put that with the other... and of course... keep in mind that everything the machine does could be done with a pair of these...


...that should REALLY help you all a LOT! :) For which you are again, very very welcome indeed :)

Not to put a crease in our relation ship,
but them hints are some what vague to me.....

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Might one, if one were a strip of paper, be going round in circles if someone applied this tool to one?

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Might the "what it does to it" part be related to a physical attribute of the youngest Brady bunch girl?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Not to put a crease in our relation ship,
but them hints are some what vague to me.....

*ohsoslowblink* Could it be we've moved on from your original guess celttooth and you haven't? :) We will definitely be coming back to it once we know what this tool is MEANT to be used for, because I promised we would and I haven't forgotten :)))

It's not for creasing... or wrinkling either... For that, you'd need a WHOLE other tool...
( )
like this one...
PLEASE IMAGINE THE ABOVE TOOL HAS BEEN PUT IN BRACKETS SO EVERYONE KNOWS IT IS NOT THE TOOL UNDER DISCUSSION THANK YOU actually I'll put it in brackets anyway because I'm feeling especially helpful which means you've already seen that it is in brackets which means I have just redundantisized myself.

Might one, if one were a strip of paper, be going round in circles if someone applied this tool to one?

One would definitely go round in circles, AFTERWARDS* Rob. Yes :)

Whilst the tool was being applied to one, however, one would be heading in a straight line at an allegedly controllable speed towards something resembling a cliff edge... like this view of one from above, below...

> > --¬

...and this of one from below - above - which one would of course not see until one had completely gone over the edge... but in an otherly direction though, to the two shown, not here... but up there. I really can't see how I can make things more precise than THAT, I really can't!

*pause to contemplate seti's toolizens* You do know it's not MY fault I'm here don't you?

Might the "what it does to it" part be related to a physical attribute of the youngest Brady bunch girl?

Uh oh...

pre1983 TVprogram alert
I have only heard of the series, David but wiki lobbed me at someone with a slightly pointier chin than any I've seen recently... if that is the physical attribute you're referring to, then no. It also doesn't blonde the paper, but it can render it potentially quite cute, which she looks, so yes... the machine does cuten the paper quite a lot, but that's not its reason for coming off the production line... so again I must point at you and say you're wrong. So you've caught up with everyone else, then - well done.

However. After taking all that into account my answer to your question is Yes :)


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edit: to assist one whilst one is going round in circles...



...one would be controlled by the deployment of tools such as these :)

oh... do the bracket thing again - I can't be bothered to anymore :)

Shucks, and I was afraid of putting a crimp
in our friendship....
I guess I am not so old that I can't still
be prone to going around in circles....

:):)

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Please tell me that thing is not used as a torture device used on the other end of a bris stick.

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Shucks, and I was afraid of putting a crimp
in our friendship....
I guess I am not so old that I can't still
be prone to going around in circles....

:):)

Please refer to my edit...
:)

Please tell me that thing is not used as a torture device on the other end of a bris stick.

...allow me to refer you to our bris expert... celttooth...

:)

EDIT: Off to judge the caption contest now... :)

I was beginning to think it had something to do with hair crimping, but now I think it has something to do with origami.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

I googled a lot of them. Just not her's.

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*shove head through door because it's probably not worth the bother of opening it*

Yep... just as I thought... "glare at meagre offerings"

Not origami no Gordon... and nothing to do with hair either although half of it can be a hair feature and indeed an excellent focus point whilst glaring... *prove point*

:)

Paper curler

ribbon curler

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.