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Keith True

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A friend just found some type old tool in the wall of a barn he is working on.It looks to be some kind of layout device.It is about
20 inches long,with a fitted brass plate on one end,and a brass foot on the other.The foot is bigger than the actual stick,like it
is meant to be used as a fixed sliding point or a pivot.It has numbers printed on both sides,graduated out in almost a fan.On both
sides there are holes drilled about 1/2 inch apart,and the holes are numbered.There are two pegs that fit in the holes,and are
stored in two holes in the brass end.He sent me a picture,but I don't know if it is good enough to come up with an ID.My first
thought was some sort of calculating tool,maybe for keeping track of board feet using the pegs.But,the way the numbers are laid out
on the face I lean more toward some kind of protractor/layout tool.
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That thing on the end is a peg.There are actually two of them,and it looks like they are stored in the end.It is solid wood,with all those lines painted on.There are like 30 little holes drilled and numbered on the edges.(I would have to count them? It looks like you would place the little pegs in the holes,but I can't figure what the numbers mean.On the opposite side the lines radiate out from the center of the stick,also all numbered.He said he sent me 4 pictures,but this is the only one that showed up.I thought it over about being a balance beam,but there is no pivot point and no sign of ever having anything hung on it.I thought about it being some kind of talley tool,move the pegs around as you count,but the lines on the back makes it look like some kind of protractor or plotter.If I could get the other three pictures to show up that would tell more.
 
id like to see a picture of the numbers you describe. Im not sure what you mean by fan out. Are they in a circle or logrithmatic?
 
I can't get the three other pictures to come up.This is the worst one of the four too.If you were to lay this on a table,with the brass ends to your right and left,with the two inch side facing up,there is a mark on the edge,dead center of the length.From that point lines radiate out towards the ends,making pie shapes.There are other lines bisecting those,and there are numbers at all the joints.The pegholes are all in the skinny edge,and are numbered,not on the face like a cribbage board.The face shown in my picture has the lines running the length of it,and has numbers all over it too.I thought I put 4 pictures up here,but they are not posting.The only one that works is the one shown.I will try to find him and get some more,I realize this one is not much to go by.
 
Just for yucks I did a search on cribbage boards and found a wide variety of shapes and styles. All seemed to have holes or pockets but none had numbers or lines.....just sayin'
 
My wife is heading to a Grange meeting with him right now,she is going to ask him to send me the pictures individually.For some
reason if I get a block of pictures from somebodys phone I can only pass on the first one in line.The lines and numbers on the
stick look like a Da Vinci drawing.
 
My wife was going to ask him at the Grange meeting,and she forgot.Then,yesterday she spent 4 hours with him at the Grange fundraiser,and forgot again.I will have to try and catch him at his house when I am out.We saw him sitting in his yard last night when we were out in the Model A,but we were going to meet people.As with most people,there is no such thing as a 2 minute quick question.
 
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