Cutting Edge Contest Winner

Contest Question: Can you Name That Tool recently pictured on our blog? And what does it have to do with 'The Cutting Edge'?"
Winning Answer: "I do not know..."
So said Arizona's Amy Gebhardt, in what was the winning entry to our Cutting Edge Birthday Contest. She also said:
"What the heck?
Whatever it is, it hardly looks like it can easily be used for clay, because it looks so primitive, and hard to control.
Is it a device to open packages of Fimo?
If the crank really turns, be careful!
Does it cut circles? Is it an armature for a future tool?
Is it 'cutting edge'? Does it cut edges? Or corners?
If I have seen this before, I do not recall... "

All good answers. Or, questions, mostly. Actually, guesses, I guess. And none of them correct. But we weren't necessarily looking for 'correct.' We were also looking for 'creative.' Amy's was certainly that, it went in to the hat, and ended up as our prize-winning pick.
So, what is the correct answer? We'll tell you. Back when we taught our 'Cutting Edge' workshop for the first time, we'd promised to share a whole bunch of cool techniques we'd developed using a 'new tool' for polymer clay. When the time came for its reveal, instead of showing our curious students the real thing, Dan unveiled this crazy device he'd made, à la Rube Goldberg... not 'cutting edge' at all (and yes, a little hard to control), a red herring, just for fun, just to keep everyone guessing a little longer. Only the students in those first few workshops in 2005 would have seen this pre-Peeler prank. Soon after that, the word was out, and now we just cut to the chase, head for the edge, and get busy with the real tool: our Cutting Edge Polymer Clay Peeler.
Speaking of busy, here's another picture from Amy, her latest collection of Matrix Canes, waiting to be peeled. Great work, Amy!

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