Show us your tools

[gstallons]

Mmmm . Sorta . 

[docc]

I had some fun reading back through this great thread. I am definitely hanging out with the right crowd. 

So, worth a bump. Not automotive, but clues are included. What are these tools for?

[audiomick]

I dare say they are hatter's tools, but don't ask me what the do.

[Lucky Phil]

Proctology tools?

Phil

[docc]

See, there? I knew y'all-boys could have some fun with this. 
 

For What It's Worth , my brother gave me the porkpie hat with a saxophone when I graduated DrCollege.

Yet, no, they are not saxophone tools . . . 

[MartyNZ]

How about tools to repair or make a wooden musical instrument like a violin? Guess #2: tools to make a cane fly fishing rod.

[docc]

14 minutes ago, MartyNZ said:

How about tools to repair or make a wooden musical instrument like a violin? Guess #2: tools to make a cane fly fishing rod.

Score! For ten points and the championship , those brass tools are meant to seat the violin sound post (seen in the foreground) between the violin's top and back, through the "F-hole." (Perhaps where the "proctology" comes in ) In just the exact spot in relation to the bridge.

I can attest that this is a task equal to putting a peanut on a moving train with tweezers. While dancing a jig.

[MartyNZ]

7 minutes ago, docc said:

Score! For ten points and the championship 

Sorry I can't claim the prize in person, I'm in a plane halfway between Cairns Australia and home.

[gstallons]

So , were they fishing rod tools ?

[docc]

5 hours ago, gstallons said:

So , were they fishing rod tools ?

Violin tools. Absolutely maddening to use (certainly for this novice). The drill is to stab the little stick with the point of the s-curved tool and insert it through the narrow "f" hole on the violin's top. If the little stick (sound post) doesn't fall off instantly, you are to deftly turn it upright and stand it between the top and back inside the body at exactly the right spot in relation to the bridge, then extract the instrument.

Since the sound post will fall off multiple times during these attempts, one gets better and better at holding the violin upside down, overhead and rolling it around until the little stick drops out. All while humming Vivaldi.

Or maybe The Devil Went Down to Georgia. 

[gstallons]

FWIW , in Ky. & Tenn. (and probably all the Southeastern States) these would be fiddles and not violins . 

Edited May 24 by gstallons
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[Tom in Virginia]

I'm down with "The Devil Went Down to Georgia. "

Maybe docc can bring his fiddle to the next "Spine Raid" and play a song/dance a jig for everyone, all the while wearing his fancy hat? Ya never know, we might all join in!

(I'm 4 hours closer than my previous raids but this would be an impetus to make it my 3rd attendance!) 

Edited May 26 by Tom in Virginia
reference the DWDTG