Woodworker's Journal

A Cleaner Purpose

erhaps our December issue’s tool specimen — a double-hooked wire gizmo with a spring-loaded clip on the bottom — truly has you stumped, because only a few have weighed in on its purpose. Or it could be that our usual posse of diligent guessers were making merry over the holidays instead of scratching their noggins about

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