Right? Or did it kind of accidentally start doing something a little like that and someone saw the potential? How well does it really work across different cob sizes/rows numbers and what was it originally sized to?

That is the corn shelling stool. I have no idea how to use it but I bet it has the same issues as a mandoline but magnified for pressure. The whole thing just scares me.

I've seen bamboo with screws driven through it for spikes, but given how splintery bamboo is, and that the thing is handheld, that seems scary. Honestly any of the handheld ones seem like they should have a handle to increase torque or some stops so you can leanit on a table when putting the corn through? Otherwise why not just do it by hand? And what happens when the corn is mostly through, you grab the stripped cob out of th eother side to pull/turn?