Not sorry about ur finger, but that is a nice find! :)

I am mildly irritated that a truck driver has moved into the rental property across the road. He's very considerate and all, but it's still annoying having a massive truck parked in the street every time he's home for a sleep. I wish he'd leave his rig one block over on the road where there's no houses. Especially not my house.

That's a great idea. It's already got a threaded hole in the end for a handle attachment point. Perfect size for a mace head too. About 4-5 inches in diameter.

That would make a great door knob
... for any place you don't want anyone to enter.

There are probably many uses in other places
... whereever you want to ream out someone's body parts.

If you don't already have a lathe, this is the perfect excuse to buy one!

I don't know if it would be cost effective to ship but I could dig up a cherry chunk you might be able to work into a handle.

I've got a lathe, but need to tune it up a little bit. It's vibrating too much.

Thanks for the offer of the cherry Griff, but I feel like it would put too much pressure on me to accept it. Plus, I've got some black walnut that would work too.

That's a pinion gear from a vehicle rear differential.

Excuse me!

I'm just big-boned.

I thought it might be. If I could find the exact person who needed this particular gear, I wonder what it would be worth? $50? It seems big, like it goes to a truck or heavy equipment.

But since I'd never find a buyer who needs it, it's basically worthless.
I like the mace idea, but what am I going to do with a mace? :)

What about filling in the gaps and making it a door handle (yep, liked that idea). You could use a resin or maybe some kind of shellac (which is a resin anyway isn't it?).

Groovy. :cool: If you get the itch let me know. I'm going to attempt to carve a pair of mushroom door handles from some of it.

It has to be matched with the right ring gear, it's worthless except as a paperweight.

It may also be defective in some way, it looks too never been used to be thrown away.

You could just soften the sharp bits rather than fuss with resin, and as for what uses for a mace?

Young man, don't you have Management ambitions? How else will you instill fear motivate your minions?

It is probably a physical exhibit from an old patent case, and that's why it was never used. You'd be amazed at the stuff we have kicking around. I've got a box full of cheesy novelty swords I need to get rid of. Crappy blades stamped out in china and meant to hang on the walls of Dungeons and Dragons wannabes.