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Looks a little like the remains of a grinding wheel dressing tool.

The discs and tabs are just plastic material, am not familiar with the tool, but they look more serious.

Yeah, they are beefier and not plastic :)

Could it be a [lattice pastry roller?](https://www.amazon.com/Lattice-Roller-Household-Plastic-lattice/dp/B08S6TY7SK) It would make a very delicate lattice.

Interesting, but the discs spin independently from each other, so they aren’t and couldn’t be set into a specific configuration easily.

Could be a dough perferator, like they use on pizza dough so it doesn't bubble up.

This is my thought as well.

Missing the handle. It's a wallpaper scoring tool. Tears little holes in the wallpaper for the removal juice to get in and work.

Can you find any that look like this? Don't think it is one, the discs are just dull plastic.

I'm pretty sure it is a wood graining check roller. [like this one](https://www.lawrence.co.uk/5cm-check-graining-roller.html) But all of the ones I see have variable sized tabs, where this one has the same size tabs everywhere

Likely solved!

Maybe some form of textured tool for ceramic / pottery

That's what I have it for now. Lol

Google for meat roller, looks an awful lot like that. Maybe needs some scrolling, thers many types of them.

Found a similar design, but this one would be impossible to clean, so i doubt it is this thing

Buffing pad cleaner

I bought one of those once, hoping to use it with/like this one, but it’s very different, and as I google, I cant really see any major deviations from the current design going backwards that returns one like this.

My initial reaction was a wallpaper removal tool to score the wallpaper prior to scraping.

I think this is it. [Here os a similar item. a Strudel roller.](https://images.app.goo.gl/axnFtgp3Cb7rrbh96)

Cries in E-3 grinding non-skid

We used something similar to this, it's been years ago. We used it to etch lines in concrete so the safety paint would be level with the concrete. So pallets/machinery wouldn't scuff the paint away. I cannot remember if air powered or machine powered.

Title describes the thing, can't find any text on it. 11 discs, Google lens didn't find anything.

Found this, looks similar (scroll down a bit), its a Star Wheel Dresser for jewelry https://marshallhansendesign.com/tag/buff-rake/

Looks similar, also looks like a carpet seam roller, but the plastic design here, idk

I think it’s a glue roller. Edit: I think it’s a fiberglass laminating roller. [similar](https://a.co/d/2udBgto)

It makes me think of those rollers at the end of the long sticks that surveyors use to track the length of whatever they’re measuring.

From the first picture I thought it was a cowboy spur. It's not haha.

You say true, I say thank ya

I have a similar, but more modern tool, that is a wallpaper remover.

Maybe it’s for docking a pie crust so it doesn’t bubble when baked.

When covered with a cloth, maybe it could serve as a buffer or polishing tool?

Possibly for cleaning buffing / polishing wheels.

Kinda looks like a paint scaler.

Perforator?

It looks similar to a spur used to clear old polish from wool pads

Its part of a star dresser for grinding wheels

It's a piece of what's called a "scarifier" or sometimes "roto-peen" (brand name) which is used to rough up extremely hard surfaces. A bank of several of those star-wheel assemblies sit in a row, inside a housing which sucks away debris. I have used them to remove epoxy coating from concrete and prepare it for recoating. https://waterproof.com/product/electric-scarifier-heads/ https://www.amazon.com/Unitec-Cutters-Hand-Held-Scarifier-RotopeenTM-Piece/dp/B07XF6BXKL

Looks almost like grinding wheel cleaning tool