What's in his hand?

[Ted Crocker]

 

[LJ]

looks like a large wooden compas

[Michael R Cossey]

Antique guitar pick......boy..we have come along way!.......smile...

[bairfoot cajun]

its a tuning fork--key of A i can hear it ya see.

[Ottie(Sky Dog)Noble]

agree with cajun

[Randy S. Bretz]

Yep looks like a tuning fork alright...old school way of tuning an instrument!

[Wade]

 

It's Gustav Van Halen- inventor of the first wammy bar!

[Ted Crocker]

You don't hold a tuning fork like chopsticks...

[jim]

I think is a caliper, hes showing off his tool because hes a builder.

[Dave K.]

Yup, looks like a caliper to me. Or maybe it's an old school split coil stereo pup, adjustable for various string spacings? Adjustable Appalachian Nosepick?

[Bob Harrison]

Witchen sticks.

[Hal Somervill]

I agree with Mike Cossey. It's an adjustable pick that will strum BOTH sets of strings in unison.

[B Tal]

its a caliper alright. but these guys used it to compare mustache length. its all they had before hot rods.  I have the same tool but I use it to pull toast out of my toaster.