Contest Winner(s): Name Those Tools!

I had a contest on Tuesday to Name Those Tools! The answers are embedded above. I thought that the nail set was the trickiest of the bunch.

My project last weekend was to put baseboards in the closet of our guest bedroom. For some completely bizarre reason, the previous owners did not see fit to put baseboards in the closet. (I have to trust Katie that this does, in fact, qualify as bizarre.) Here's our new baseboards, still needing to be painted:
The nail set, as Gloria pointed out, is for pounding nails below the surface of the wood so that they can be spackled over and then painted. I brought my nail set when I moved in with my lovely wife, and enjoyed stumping her as to the function of the tool. (That was the inspiration of the quiz!)

The hand plane was to make the tiny-yet-complicated piece of baseboard pictured below. Although it's only the size of an overgrown toothpick, it took 2 of the 8 hours I worked on the project to shape the wood so that it would fit into the allotted space:
The wire strippers were to put in a new light fixture, to replace the old one that didn't work:
And the winner is . . .
As for sending the promised prize to the winner, I am in a bit of a conundrum. Craig was the first person to identify the three tools correctly. (He answered nail punch instead of nail set, but that's an acceptable alternative.) That, truly, was the hard part. However, Craig did not answer the question. I asked What specific task were each of the three tools designed for? Craig needed to read the question more carefully! Normally I would have great sympathy for this, except that Craig is a college professor who sometimes complains about his complacent students.

I think Jan and Rachel deserve kudos for making additional creative guesses and hoping Craig was wrong, but it was Gloria who was the first to answer the actual contest question. It gets more complicated, though, because even Gloria did not include further description for what the wire strippers do, figuring that function is clearly indicated by the tool's name. I agree with her that the function of wire stripper is more clearly implied than hand plane or nail set. Craig might argue that the function is clearly implied in all three, though. Who deserves the prize?

After turning it over in my head, I decided the best thing would be to send prizes to Craig and Gloria. In the mail today went five bridge books for Gloria (to help in her quest for the national championship I have abandoned) and for Craig went a multi-CD set containing recordings of all of Mozart's known works. (I know that Craig likes Mozart, and better yet, Craig's husband Adrian is a professor of music composition who likes atonality and despises Mozart. I enjoy thinking of Adrian's ears bleeding as Craig plays everything Mozart ever wrote.)